AMATEUR AWARDS
Atiq Uz-Zaman dominated the Castle Awards for
Batting for the third successive season. The former Pakistan
Test player scored 927 runs and was presented with the award
by Matthew Castle at the League's end of season presentation
evening held at Leyland Golf Club.
Lancaster offspinner Ben Simm won the bowling
award for the second time in three years after taking 61
wickets. Simm had taken 46 wickets for Kendal in 2008.
The wicketkeeping prize was won by Barrow's
Cumberland County player Chris D'Leny who took 35 dismissals
during the season. D'Leny also received the Malcolm Beaty
Trophy, awarded annually to the leading wicketkeeper in
Division One on the proviso that the tally includes at least
one stumping.
Ryan Smith (Fleetwood) won the fielding prize
with 19 catches.
The Division Two awards were sponsored for the
first time by Scratching Shed Publishing and helped raise the
profile of the players in second eleven cricket.
Leyland's Daniel Hall won the batting prize with
846 runs for the champions.
The bowling prize was shared between Morecambe's
Nick Milner and Blackpool's Ross Parker who each took 54
wickets.
Blackpool's James Smith won the wicketkeeping
prize with 31 dismissals and Preston's Yasin Patel was top
fielder with 12 catches.
Tony Hannan, the MD of the sponsors was on hand
to make the awards. Andy Sneddon from Black Dragon Badges and
Promotions, suppliers of medals and trophies to the League,
kindly sponsored the Fair Play awards which were won by
Lancashire Colts (Division One) and Chorley (Division Two).
At the dinner League sponsors Rob Cairns, CEO of
Furness Building Society presented David Makinson and Chris
Dovey, captains of Leyland First and Second XIs respectively
with the league championship trophies and made presentations
to Daryl Wearing, captain of Division One runnersup Barrow and
Kevin Reid, captain of Division Two runners-up Blackpool.
Neil Pullen, representing Readers made
presentations to John Cordingley, captain of Readers Cup
Division One winners Darwen, Tommy Clough, captain of
runners-up Morecambe, Ian Mawdesley, captain of Readers Cup
Division Two winners Chorley and Adam Taylor representing
runners-up St Annes.
Mike Latham from Latham Baxendale presented the
Latham Baxendale Twenty20 Cup to Mike Rigg, team manager of
winners Netherfield.
The Amateur Awards for Division One players
were introduced in 2005 and previous winners have been as
follows:
Batting:
2005 - Terry Hunte (Kendal) 841 runs
2006 - Ian Austin (St Annes) 1,075
runs
2007 - Chris Parry (Netherfield) 724
runs
2008 - Atiq Uz-Zaman (St Annes) 1,005
runs
2009 - Atiq Uz-Zaman (St Annes) 792
runs
2010 - Atiq Uz-Zaman (St Annes) 927
runs
Bowling:
2005 - Kevin Howarth (Kendal) 50
wickets
2006 - Andrew Mercer (Darwen) 56
wickets
2007 - Lukman Vahaluwala (Preston) 49
wickets
2008 - Ben Simm (Kendal) 46 wickets
2009 - Warren Quinn (Carnforth) 53
wickets
2010 - Ben Simm (Lancaster) 61
wickets
Wicketkeeping (Malcolm Beaty
Trophy):
2005 - Duncan Whalley (St Annes) 40
dismissals
2006 - James Ellis (Fleetwood) 32
dismissals
2007 - Ikram Ullah (Kendal) 36
dismissals
2008 - James Smith (Blackpool) and
Duncan Whalley (St Annes) both 34 dismissals
2009 - Duncan Whalley (St Annes) 37
dismissals
2010 - Chris D'Leny (Barrow) 35
dismissals
Fielding:
2005 - Neil Cordingley (Darwen) and
Phil Dennison (Morecambe) both 12 catches
2006 - Gareth Cordingley (Darwen) 17
catches
2007 - Mark Lomas (Morecambe) 20
catches
2008 - Mark Lomas (Morecambe) 18
catches
2009 - David Fisher (Preston) 14
catches
2010 - Ryan Smith (Fleetwood) 19
catches
