Didsbury's Jones lands T20 awards hat-trick at League Dinner

The Cheshire Women’s Cricket League held another successful annual presentation dinner at Chester Boughton Hall CC last Saturday.

For the first time, the same player won the awards for all three disciplines in the same category. Hannah Jones of Didsbury was the best batsman, bowler and fielder according to the statistics for the league’s T20 competitions.

A number of awards were only settled after some dramatic events on the last day. Lorna Starkey, captain of league champions Chester Boughton Hall, scored 116, the second highest individual score of the year, on the final day, allowing her to overhaul what had looked like a comfortable lead for Emma Barlow.

Perhaps the most closely fought award was the division two bowling award. At the start of the final matches, six bowlers were locked together on nine wickets – Stockport Trinity’s Katy Hart and Olivia Smith, Oxton’s Ellie Grisedale and the Wistaston Village trio of Alison Smith, Hannah Bratt and Emily Mackenzie. Hart’s two wickets on September 11 ensured she moved into the outright lead and thus bagged the award.

INDIVIDUAL AWARD WINNERS 2016

Division 1 Batting

1 Lorna Starkey (Chester Boughton Hall) 382 runs (also best average with 95.5)
2 Emma Barlow (Appleton) 349
3 Phoebe Cottam (Oakmere) 306
4 Lauren Smith (Didsbury) 242
5 Natalie Lyons (Oakmere) 184

Division 1 Bowling

1 Kate Coppack (Chester Boughton Hall) 18 wickets (average 5.61 – best average of any division 1 bowler who bowled more than 3 overs. Her strike rate of 15.67 was the best of any who bowled more than 8 overs)
2 Anni Rashid (Appleton) 18 (average 9)
3 Nathalie Long (Appleton) / Olivia Horsfield (Appleton) 14
4 Annette Axon (Chester Boughton Hall) / Sarah Worsdale (Oakmere) 12

(Best economy rate for any division 1 bowler who bowled more than 22 overs was Hannah Jones with 1.48)

Division 1 Fielding

1 Becky Baldock (Ashton-on-Mersey) 6 fielding dismissals plus 1 as wicketkeeper
2 Shami Ahmed (Oakmere) 6
3 Kate Coppack (Chester Boughton Hall) / Maeve Sparks (Chester Boughton Hall) / Kathryn Jackson (Appleton) 5

Division 2 Batting

1 Alison Smith (Wistaston Village) 213 runs
2 Olivia Smith (Stockport Trinity) 179
3 Gaby McKeever (Stockport Trinity) 150 (also best average with 150 – six innings, five times not out)
4 Morganne Prince (Wistaston Village) 149
5 Jess Pickavance (Oxton) 143

Division 2 Bowling

1 Katy Hart (Stockport Trinity) 11 wickets (also her average of 10.64 was the best of any division 2 bowler who bowled more than 14 overs)
2 Emily MacKenzie (Wistaston Village) 10
3 Olivia Smith (Stockport Trinity) / Alison Smith (Wistaston Village) / Hannah Bratt (Wistaston Village) 9

(Best strike rate for any division 2 bowler who bowled more than 14 overs was Gaby McKeever of Stockport Trinity with 23.25)
(Best economy rate for any division 2 bowler who bowled more than 8 overs was Emma Royle of Stockport Trinity with 1.88)

Division 2 Fielding

1 Gaby McKeever (Stockport Trinity) 5 fielding dismissals
2 Emily MacKenzie (Wistaston Village) 4
3 Gillian Spragg (Stockport Trinity) / Abbie Adams (Wistaston Village) / Megan Cureton (Oxton) 3

Division 3 Batting

1 Nicky Deane (Leigh) 140 runs (also her average of 70 was the best of any division 3 batsman who played more than 50% of the matches)
2 Claire Moloney (Didsbury 2nd XI) 115
3 Natalie Bell (Stockport Georgians) 94
4 Abigail Barlow (Bredbury St Mark’s) 88
5 Bhumika Doshi (Leigh) 59

Division 3 Bowling

1 Laura Smith (Didsbury 2nd XI) 12 wickets
2 Alex Wilson (Bredbury St Mark’s) 8
3 Megan McKiernan (Leigh) 7
4 Tasneem Akram (Didsbury 2nd XI) / Isabelle Blamires (Leigh) / Jill Ward (Bredbury St Mark’s) / Liv Bell (Stockport Georgians) 6

Division 3 Fielding

1 Natalie Bell (Stockport Georgians) 4 fielding dismissals
2 Jess Hargreaves (Leigh) / Amelia Brereton (Stockport Georgians) 3

T20 Batting

1 Hannah Jones (Didsbury Swordettes) 118 runs
2 Emma Barlow (Appleton Tigers) 98
3 Lauren Smith (Didsbury Swordettes) 97
4 Raffaella Rodighiero (Oakmere Kats) 80
5 Holly McCurrie (Appleton Tigers) 73

T20 Bowling

1 Hannah Jones (Didsbury Swordettes) 10 wickets
2 Sammi Short / Lorna Starkey (both Chester Boughton Hall Deemons) 9
4 Nathalie Long (Appleton Tigers) / Alex Wilson (Bredbury Saints) 7

T20 Fielding

1 Hannah Jones (Didsbury Swordettes) 5 fielding dismissals
2 Emma Barlow / Sami Fowler (both Appleton Tigers) / Claire Waterhouse (Oakmere Kats) 4

Wicketkeeping – All Competitions

1 Judith Barnes (Appleton) 8 wicketkeeping dismissals
2 Nic Capes (Chester Boughton Hall) 7
3 Hannah Gradwell (Stockport Trinity) / Hannah Kowalski (Oxton) 6

Cheshire WCCC Players’ Player of the Year

Lauren O’Reilly

Cheshire WCCC Coach’s Player of the Year

Ellie Mason

(Top run scorer for Cheshire was Ellie Mason with 399 runs and top wicket taker was Lauren O’Reilly 15 wickets)

President’s Award (Outstanding Contribution to Women’s Cricket in Cheshire)

Kevin Southern (Oxton)