Vin­ode Mam­chan

Nevis-born bats­man Runako Mor­ton cap­tured the pres­ti­gious Queen's Park Crick­et Club Crick­eter of the Year award, at the club's prize-giv­ing cer­e­mo­ny on Thurs­day night at the Queen's Park Oval. Mor­ton scored five cen­turies dur­ing the sea­son and this swayed the ad­ju­di­ca­tors in his di­rec­tion. He beat out na­tion­al play­ers Amit Jag­ger­nauth, Nicholas Alex­is, Kevon Coop­er and Sunil Nar­ine for the top award. Mor­ton scored three cen­turies in the Sun­day League at an av­er­age off 78.50 and two cen­turies in the two-day league at an av­er­age off 40.44. Jag­ger­nauth cap­tured 28 wick­ets at an av­er­age of 15.39 in the league. Fel­low spin­ner Nar­ine grabbed 29 wick­ets at 15.48. All­rounder Coop­er av­er­aged 33.63 with one cen­tu­ry in the league, while be cap­tured 30 wick­ets at 12.17. Alex­is, who was al­so vot­ed Youth Crick­eter of the Year, topped the bat­ting in the league with an av­er­age of 62.45.

Na­tion­al youth play­er Akeal Ho­sein was named Youth Per­son­al­i­ty of the Year for his gen­er­al de­port­ment. West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) di­rec­tor Bal­dath Ma­habir praised the lead­er­shipof the club for be­ing dy­nam­ic. "In or­der for Queen's Park to re­main rel­e­vant the lead­er­ship must be vi­sion­ary and dy­nam­ic and I must say the lead­ers have shown that they are ca­pa­ble of this. "We are proud of the achieve­ments of Queen's Park Crick­et Club and we are hap­py to cel­e­brate with you all tonight. Crick­et is in good health and grow­ing and once we keep be­ing in­no­v­a­tive we will con­tin­ue to pros­per.

"I know that the re­sults from the West In­dies Crick­et team have not been good but if you look close­ly, there is sure to be a sil­ver lin­ing and maybe that is the start of the Sagi­cor Acad­e­my, or the re­sump­tion of 'A' team tours or even the per­for­mance of our women crick­eters."

Al­so speak­ing at the gala func­tion was ac­tor Glenn Davis, the broth­er of crick­et man­ag­er at the Oval, Bryan Davis. In his very live­ly de­liv­ery he urged the young play­ers to use be­ing a mem­ber of Queen's Park to their ad­van­tage. "Be it sport, busi­ness or en­ter­tain­ment, use the club to ad­vance, use it, use it , use it." He al­so said that the proud Queen's Park Crick­et Club tra­di­tion must con­tin­ue and every mem­ber must do his part to make his club a bet­ter one.

QPCC HO­N­OUR ROLL 2010

Crick­eter of the Year:

Runako Mor­ton

Five Crick­eters of the Year: Runako Mor­ton, Amit Jag­ger­nauth, Nicholas Alex­is, Kevon Coop­er and Sunil Nar­ine.

Youth Crick­eter of the Year: Nicholas Alex­is.

Youth Per­son­al­i­ty of the Year: Akeal Ho­sein.

SPE­CIAL AWARDS

TTCB Pre­mier League Re­serve Crick­eter of the Year

An­tho­ny Alexan­der.

Per­for­mances in Eng­land

Daron Cruick­shank