SOUTH Wilts cricketers celebrated an evening of unprecedented success at their annual awards dinner, writes Mike Vimpany.
There, the Lower Bemerton outfit toasted a unique Southern Electric Premier League championship double, the firsts winning the title for the fourth successive year – in addition in retaining the twenty20 cup for a third straight time – and the 2nd XI carrying off the Premier Division 3 prize.
It was the maiden time a first and second team from an SPL club had won a title in the same season.
Besides winning the batting award – his 979 runs tally was the highest by an English-born player in the SPL – Tom Morton was named South Wilts Player of the Year, while William Wade won the under-21 award, scoring over 650 runs in league cricket.
Fellow teenagers Henry Smith (Jacko Sillence award, 327 runs), Ben Richards (4th XI), Tom Lewis (3rd XI) and William Wade (2nd XI) carried off the various individual performance prizes, while Blair Kantolinna won the President’s Award.
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