The Star: April 15, 2021

Canty cricketers cap off record season at gala event
• By Tatiana Gibbs
CANTERBURY CRICKET
popped the final champagne
bottle of the season on Friday
night, celebrating a record
summer in which they won four
of five contested domestic titles.
Frances Mackay and Daryl
Mitchell both took home the
Players’ Player awards, as voted
by their fellow teammates. It
recognised their outstanding
individual performances
throughout the season, which was
affirmed again when both Mackay
and Mitchell took out the women’s
and men’s Player of the Year
awards for their contributions
with both bat and ball.
Mitchell cemented a debut
season of the ages for Canterbury
after making the move from
Northern Districts. He was
described as the “foundation of
success” for the men’s side. The
batting all-rounder scored 692
runs across all three formats,
including achieving his maiden
first class century for Canterbury,
as well as taking 29 wickets
throughout the season.
Captain Mackay won the
women’s Player of the Year title
for the sixth time, and added
the women’s Bowler of the Year
award to her season collection.
Mackay earned herself a White
Ferns recall this season following
her all-round efforts, scoring
665 runs and taking 34 wickets
across both formats of the game
in the domestic season.
The Canterbury Magicians
were domestic double champions,
winning the Dream11 T20
Super Smash final in dramatic
fashion, clinching victory over
the Wellington Blaze in the final
over, led by a Kate Ebrahim and
Lea Tahuhu run chase.
The women’s side secured
the double by winning the
Hallyburton Johnstone Shield
one day competition, comfortably
beating the Auckland Hearts in
the final match by eight wickets,
guided by top order batting
experience of Frankie Mackay
and Amy Satterthwaite.
“It’s that nice feeling that we
are the best team in the country
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SUCCESS: Daryl Mitchell with coach Peter Fulton and Frances Mackay with ARA chief
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and that other teams are going
to really come hard for us, so we
need to make sure that we make
those same gains once again,”
Mackay said.
“Because everyone loves to
beat the Cantabs, and everyone
especially loves to beat the Cantabs
when they’ve got the trophies
locked up in their trophy cabinet.”
The Canterbury men came
close to achieving a historic first
three-peat, winning the Plunket
Shield four-day title with two
rounds to spare, and blasting to
victory over Northern Districts
in the Ford Trophy one day final
on the back of an unbroken
Henry Nicholls century.
Captain Cole McConchie
discussed Canterbury’s
momentum: “We got onto a roll
this season and I think that’s a
testament to the whole squad. We
had a squad of 25 men this season
that all stood up at different stages
… and to come away with two
titles is really pleasing.”
The men were denied a
clean sweep by the Wellington
Firebirds in the Dream11 T20
Super Smash final, who defeated
Canterbury in the final over.
“No one’s ever done the threepeat
in men’s domestic cricket,”
McConchie said.
“We’re really hungry to create
history and go after the threepeat,
and I’m sure we won’t stop
until we get there.”
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Canterbury Cricket 2020/2021
award winners
Men’s Player of the Year: Daryl Mitchell
Women’s Player of the Year: Frances
Mackay Men’s Players’ Player: Daryl
Mitchell Women’s Players’ Player: Frances
Mackay Sabelle Supporters’ Performance of
the Year: Lea Tahuhu Men’s Batsman of the
Year: Ken McClure Women’s Batter of the
Year: Kate Ebrahim U19 Men’s Batsmen of
the Year: Rhys Mariu U19 Women’s Batter
of the Year: Abby Gerken Men’s Bowler of
the Year: Will Williams Women’s Bowler
of the Year: Frances Mackay U19 Men’s
Bowler of the Year: Angus Sidey U19
Women’s Bowler of the Year: Missy Banks.
Meanwhile, at the New Zealand
Cricket Awards on Tuesday
night, the ANZ International
Women’s ODI Player of the Year
was claimed by Canterbury’s Amy
Satterthwaite.
Canterbury also claimed the
double in the domestic player of
the year category with all-rounders
Frankie Mackay and Daryl
Mitchell claiming the respective
awards.
The Canterbury Magicians’
victorious Super Smash and Hallyburton
Johnstone (HBJ) Shield
campaigns were reflected in both
domestic batting and bowling
awards. All-rounder Kate Ebrahim
was awarded the Ruth Martin
Cup for batting, after playing
a key hand in the T20 grand final
win and ending as the leading
run-scorer in the HBJ. At just
20 years old, leg-spinner Sarah
Asmussen topped the HBJ wicket
tally following an impressive Super
Smash campaign, seeing her
named the Phyl Blackler Cup for
women’s domestic bowling.
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