Sutherland District Cricket Club 2023-24 Awards Presentation
Sutherland District Cricket Club | April 18, 2024
The Sutherland District Cricket Club Annual Presentation Night was held at Tradies Gymea Friday night 12 April 2024. The Management Committee decided in March to name the performance awards after some SDCC Club legends.
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DAVID GIVNEY AWARD FOR THE HIGHEST BATTING AGGREGATE FOR THE SEASON
David Givney is the Club’s all-time leading run-scorer, with 12,559 runs in 527 matches.
At Friday night’s presentation night, Tom Doyle was announced the winner of the David Givney Award with 511 runs.
PHIL JAQUES AWARD FOR THE HIGHEST BATTING AVERAGE FOR THE SEASON (min. 200 runs)
Phil Jaques has the Club’s highest batting average for players who have scored at least 3000 runs in all grades. He scored 11512 runs in 258 matches in all grades at an average of 45.32, with a highest score of 321. He also played 11 Tests for Australia, scoring 902 runs including three centuries.
On Friday night at the SDCC Presentation Night, the winner was Sam Konstas (378 runs at 54.00 in 1sts).
STUART CLARK AWARD FOR THE HIGHEST BOWLING AGGREGATE FOR THE SEASON
Stuart Clark has taken 454 wickets for the Club in 206 matches in all grades. He also played 24 Tests for Australia, taking 94 wickets at an average of 23.86 including two 5-wicket hauls.
The winner was Joel Almond (44 wickets in 2nds & 3rds)
GLENN McGRATH AWARD FOR THE LOWEST BOWLING AVERAGE FOR THE SEASON (min. 15 wickets)
Glenn McGrath took 176 wickets for the Club in 77 matches in all grades, at an average of 18.0, including 140 wickets in 1st Grade at an average of 16.8. He also played 124 Tests for Australia, taking 563 wickets at an average of 21.64 including 29 5-wicket hauls. The winner was Zac Philipson (43 wickets at 13.53 (2nds & 3rds). The award was presented by Stuart Clark, as Glenn was unable to attend.
MATTHEW BRADLEY AWARD FOR THE MOST CATCHES BY A FIELDSMAN FOR THE SEASON
Matthew Bradley has taken the most catches by a fieldsman for the Club, with 193 catches in 382 matches in all grades.
Fittingly, the winner was Matthew Bradley (11 catches in 3rds)!
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DANIEL RIXON AWARD FOR THE MOST WICKETKEEPING DISMISSALS FOR THE SEASON
Daniel Rixon has made the most wicketkeeping dismissals for the Club, with 498 dismissals in 361 matches in all grades.
The winner was Cody Philipson (47 dismissals in 2nds & 3rds). Cody broke the club record for most wicketkeeping dismissals in a season in 3rd Grade, with 36 catches (previously 34). He was five dismissals short of Daniel’s club record of 52 dismissals in a season for all grades (in 20 matches in 2005-06). Cody played 15 matches this season.
KEN GARDNER MEMORIAL AWARD (Under 16 Player of the Year)
The winner was Max Kennedy. The award was presented by Matthew Bradley, life member and captain of the 1992-93 AWG premiership team.
MARGARET MANN MEMORIAL AWARD (Under 21 Player of the Year)
The winner was Lachlan Ball. The award was presented by Nick Amos, 2nd Grade captain and winner of the award in 2017-18.
METROPOLITAN CUP PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD
The winner was Parth Taya. The award was presented by Brett James, captain of the premiership-winning Metro Cup team.
JAMES A. DALY MEMORIAL AWARD (Player of the Year)
The James A. Daly Memorial Award is for the Player of the Year, based on performances in grade rounds up to the final’s series.
The award was instituted in the 1974-75 season to commemorate the work performed for Sutherland Shire cricket by the late Jim Daly (who died in 1974).
The Club’s last connection with Jim Daly passed in December 2023 with the death of John Smythe, the Club’s first Secretary. The Management Committee feels that, after 50 years as the James A. Daly Memorial Award, it is now appropriate to rename the Player of the Year Award as the Steve Smith Medal. Steve Smith is one of our greatest cricketers, being the first Sutherland junior to captain Australia.
To date, he has played 109 Tests for Australia and is our best performed Test batsman after Don Bradman. Before he started his international career, he won our Player of the Season Award four times, in 2004-05, 2006-07, 2007-08 & 2008-09.
The Committee feels that it is a fitting acknowledgement of his contribution to SDCC and his wider achievements to name the award after him. This will take effect from next season.
The winner was Joel Almond. The award was presented by Tony Clark, life member and five-time winner of the award (most in club history).
TED COTTON MEMORIAL AWARD (Players’ Player of the Year)
The winner was Joel Almond. The award was presented by Nathan Whittingham, Club President, life member and winner of the award in 2017-18.
TOM ICETON CLUB PERSON OF THE YEAR
The winner was Brian Hall, who once again was a pillar of strength looking after gameday tasks at Glenn McGrath Oval throughout the season, a job that he has performed for the last 13 seasons. Unfortunately, Brian was attending a funeral in Albury on Friday, so the award was presented to him by Tom Iceton on Monday.
Other awards presented on the night were:
• Bob Every Encouragement Award – Zac Philipson
• Tradies Encouragement Award (AW Green Shield) – Jackson Kean
• Coaches’ Award for Best Trainer – Zac Philipson
• Mounted Ball for 7 wickets in an innings – Joel Almond (7-47 & 4-39 in 3rds), Bailey Parker (7-21 in Metro Cup)
• Mounted Ball for a Hat-Trick – Joel Almond (2nds)
• Mounted Ball for 300 wickets in all grades – Tom Pinson
• Mounted Ball for 200 wickets in all grades – Joel Almond
• Mounted Ball for 200 wickets in 1st Grade – Tom Pinson
• Awards for 5 or 6 wickets in an innings – Kunwar Brar, Lachlan Brownscombe, Luke Cutcliffe, Tavish Humphreys-Jones (2), Tharindu Kaushal (2 – presented to Tharindu before he flew back to Sri Lanka), Steve Kourouche, Sam Niumataiwalu, Zac Philipson, Tom Pinson, Lachlan Pont, Andrew Ritchie, Parth Taya (2)
• Awards for 5 catches by a wicket-keepers in an innings – Lachlan Ball, Andrew Dietz, Cody Philipson (3)
• Century awards – Jared Ball (3), Tom Doyle, Tom Faulkner, Matthew Fitzgerald, Kobey Freer (2), Marcus Jewell, Jackson Kean, Sam Konstas, Kobe Ross, Austin Waugh
