Na­tion­al crick­eter Akeal Ho­sein was vot­ed Se­nior Club Per­son­al­i­ty of the Year at Queen’s Park Crick­et Club’s An­nu­al Awards Func­tion at the Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, on Fri­day night.

Mem­bers and club of­fi­cials braved the in­clement weath­er to show up for the glitzy af­fair as they cel­e­brat­ed with Ho­sein, who was able to nose ahead of all the oth­er nom­i­nees from the dif­fer­ent sport­ing dis­ci­plines played by club mem­bers.

Ta­ble ten­nis play­er Der­ron Dou­glas won the Ju­nior Club Per­son­al­i­ty of the Year award.

Ho­sein, a club mem­ber since he was 14, has de­vel­oped in­to one of the top all-rounders in the re­gion and in the club. Since mak­ing his TTCB Pre­mier­ship de­but in 2010, he has scored 4109 runs, tak­en 362 wick­ets and has rep­re­sent­ed T&T at the Un­der-17, Un­der-19 and se­nior re­gion­al com­pe­ti­tions.

In 2019, he con­tin­ued to be one of the club’s top per­form­ers, scor­ing 532 runs with an av­er­age of 48.4, a high score of 151 not out and 57 wick­ets at an av­er­age of 11.49 and an econ­o­my rate of 3.03, which in­clud­ed three five-wick­et hauls in an in­nings haul.

Ho­sein’s most out­stand­ing mo­ment of the club sea­son came when he scored the 151 not out against Clarke Road, af­ter his team, chas­ing 340 for first-in­nings points, was re­duced to 267 for nine. Then, he bat­ted through the in­nings to see the team de­clare with the score on 416-9. This in­nings was watched by the T&T chair­man of se­lec­tors An­tho­ny Gray, who rat­ed it as one of the best he had seen dur­ing his play­ing ca­reer and earned Ho­sein a re­tain­er con­tract with the T&T Red Force for the 2019/2020 sea­son.

He was al­so se­lect­ed and played for the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers team in the 2019 Caribbean Pre­mier League and is cur­rent­ly for the T&T Red Force in the Colo­nial Su­per50 com­pe­ti­tion.

Dou­glas, on the oth­er hand, is just 14 years and has been a stand­out ta­ble ten­nis play­er, win­ning gold at the Caribbean Un­der-21 cham­pi­onships. He al­so took gold at the Un­der-15 and Un­der-18 lev­els. His per­for­mances have not gone un­no­ticed and he is cur­rent­ly ranked first in the coun­try in the Boys’ U-18 di­vi­sion. Among all play­ers in the coun­try, he has at­tained a rank of fifth, which is com­mend­able for his age.

Ho­sein and Dou­glas were able to trump a num­ber of very tal­ent­ed Parkites who were nom­i­nat­ed for awards. Win­ning the pres­ti­gious Kingston Tro­phy for ser­vice to the club over the past year was Matthew Leach.

With his days of play­ing foot­ball in Sky Blue and even serv­ing as cap­tain of the team be­hind him, Matthew has turned his fo­cus to be­hind the scenes. Chair­ing the foot­ball sec­tion, he over­sees the 8-a-side tour­na­ment, men’s and ladies’ teams. He is al­so heav­i­ly in­volved in the Youth Acad­e­my and helps co­or­di­nate var­i­ous as­pects of fundrais­ing and tours for the young play­ers.

Awardees

Se­nior Club Per­son­al­i­ty of the Year—Akeal Ho­sein (crick­et)

Ju­nior Club Per­son­al­i­ty of the Year—Der­ron Dou­glas (ten­nis)

Kingston Tro­phy win­ner—Matthew Leach

DIS­CI­PLINE NOM­I­NEES

Crick­et—Sameer Ali (ju­nior), Akeal Ho­sein (se­nior)

Ten­nis—&emp­mar­gin;Der­ron Dou­glas and Chloe Fras­er (ju­nior),
She­mar Brit­ton and Brit­tany Joseph (se­nior)

Foot­ball—Aaron Moruf (ju­nior), Jameel Lash­ley (se­nior)

Squash—Seth Thong (ju­nior), Char­lotte Knag­gs (se­nior)

Hock­ey—Ethan Reynos (ju­nior), Dar­ren Cowie (se­nior)