Cricket Far North tossing up end-of-season awards options
Cricket Far North is weighing up its options to recognise the best players of the 2019/20 season after its annual presentation night had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Cricket Far North is weighing up its options to recognise the best players of the 2019/20 season after its annual presentation night had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
President Peter Huey said the association was considering two different options for its end-of-season awards process, with a decision to be made early next week.
“There’s a couple of ideas of maybe doing a season opener and doing a presentation then, or jumping online and doing a video-type release of the major prize winners,” he said.
“All the teams know whether they won their grade or not, so that’s probably not as important, although we’ve got trophies for them and they’ll be presented when the occasion arises.”
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Favourites for this year’s best and fairest award include Atherton’s Paul Nasser, Mulgrave’s Jake Roach, Rovers’ Brenton Edwards and Norths’ Chris Stanger.
Roach and Atherton all-rounder Daniel Parnell dominated last season’s awards, with Parnell claiming the best and fairest, players’ player, batting aggregate (700 runs) and bowling aggregate (36 wickets) awards, while Jake Roach took out the batting average (80.33) and bowling average (9.22) gongs.
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Cricket Far North called stumps on its 2019/20 season last month, following Cricket Australia’s recommendations, backed by Queensland Cricket, to cancel all organised cricket in the community for the rest of the season.
The association had completed its two-day and one-day seasons, and had just two weekends of Twenty20 games to complete.
After the remaining fixtures were treated as washouts, Mulgrave were declared the premiers of the Twenty20 season.
Originally published as Cricket Far North tossing up end-of-season awards options