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AWARDS NIGHT Part 2 - SPECIAL AWARDS

On Thursday night we finished our Awards Night with a special set of awards for a select group of players that have achieved 100 games for our Premier Team over the past 50 plus years.

Due to our average record keeping in the past, not all our statistics have been available from before 1979/80.

Thankfully we have Harry Findlay in our club, who has done an amazing job calculating our statistics from the past 36 years and is working on the 15 to 20 years prior to that!

No easy task with limited records,.
Harry has spent many many hours updating this information.

Haz you are a true Legend and we appreciate your efforts immensely!

Following is a who's who of Napier Tech Cricket over the past 50 years with 23 current or past players in attendance on Thursday night, true Legends of our club, and as you can see from the stats of these players, some very good cricketers as well!

Blackcaps, NZ A, NZ U19's, CD Stags and Hawkes Bay players galore!

A great night with some great stories shared!

Thanks again to Photography by Corena for capturing this special night.

SENIOR AWARDS NIGHT 2025/26

On Thursday night our Senior Club celebrated the final event of the 25/26 Season with our Awards Night, held at Good Sport

This was a special night, not only for our current players that have had an awesome season, But also for a select group of our past and former Club Legends that have achieved major milestones in our clubs history, see more on this in part 2 of our Awards summary later

This season our Lions won Div 2a before Christmas and competed strongly in Div 1, our Tigers after a slow start before Christmas made the Div 2a final last weekend, and of course our Premier Men, won all 3 trophies on offer in what was an outstanding season.

TEAM AWARDS

Div 2a Tech Tigers

Duck Trophy
Mahi Gakhal

V T Rouse Memorial Cup
Best Fielder - Saraj Singh

Ernie Elliot Cup
Best Bowling Average - Lovepreet Singh
22 wkts @ 19, BB 4/14

Lloyd Duckworth Cup
Best Batting Average - Ram Brar
315 runs @ 30

Div 1 Tech Lions

Tim Hurley - Duck Trophy
Amila Sanjeewa

MA Cooper Cup
Best Fielder - Amila Sanjeewa

Ian Campbell Cup - Best Bowling Average
Naveen Sammarokkodi
27 wkts @ 12.2, BB 5/6

Nancy Venables Cup - Best Batting Average
Dilshan Perera
583 runs @ 41, HS -128

Premier Men

Glenn Smidt Trophy- Most Sixes
Christian Leopard - 41

Duck Trophy - Bayley Latter

Gordon Steele Cup
Best Premier Fielder - Todd Watson

D C Dunn Memorial Cup
Best Bowling Average
Bayley Latter
33 wkts @ 17.79, BB 5/20

W E Cooper Cup
Best Batting Average - Christian Leopard
927 runs @ 66, HS 154*

CLUB AWARDS

Bob Annan Memorial Cup (Senior)
Outstanding Individual Club performance
Harry Beale
5 Wkts in the T20 Final

L Hook Trophy
Most wicketkeeping dismissals in the season
Bayley Foote

Douglas Rees Memorial Cup
Highest Individual Score
Christian Leopard
154no v CCC, 65 balls
51 ball 100 - 13 x 6’s, 8 x 4's

Masonic Establishment Trophy
Most Improved Club Player
Kieran Atkinson
28 wkts @ 18, BB 5/22
210 runs @ 21, HS 94

Dickenson Stewart Cup
Most Promising Senior Club Player for 2025/26
Bayley Latter
36 wkts @ 17, BB 5/20
352 runs @ 22, HS 80no

Jack Minett Trophy
Most Promising Young Fast Bowler
Luke Pawson
18 wkts @ 19.97

E C Temperton Memorial Trophy
Club Bowling Aggregate (Most wickets)
Bayley Latter
36 wkts @ 17.6, BB 5/20

Tot Annan Memorial Trophy
Club Batting Aggregate
Christian Leopard
927 runs @ 66, HS 154*

Paul Whitaker Cup
UNDER 19/ SECONDARY SCHOOL Cricketer of the Year.
Harry BEALE
15 wkt @ 12.3,BB 5/17

Jack Dale Trophy
Premier Player's Player of the season
Jack SMIDT

Craig Findlay Cup - Premier Player of the Year
Christian Leopard
927 runs, 11 Catches

W J Ireland Memorial Trophy
Clubman/Player of the Year
Prabath Perera - Tech Lions

The Alan Little International Explorer Award
Luke Pawson / Harry Beale
Off to Sri Lanka on tour with Indi

Jacqui and Tony Gardiner Cup
Most Devoted Club Person of the Season
Chip Latter - Tech Year 7 coach and Premier supporter

Ronnie (Rocket) Turner Cup
Team of the Year
TECH Premier’s winners of
HB Overall Championship
Murray McKearney Memorial T20 Cup
MJ Shrimpton Memorial Cup

Individual Awards 100 runs and 5 wickets and more.

100 Runs

Sukh Padda - 102 v HNCC

Samuel Pawson – 113no v Tech Tigers

Dilshan Parera - 128 v Sher E Punjab

Christian Leopard – 156no v Cornwall CC

Christian Leopard - 112 v Havelock North CC

5 bags

Malindu Lamahewage – 6/32 v NBHS 2nd XI

Prasanna Senarathne - 5/46 v Sher E Punjab

Naveen Sammarakkodi – 5/6 v HNCC

Noah Smith – 6/40 v Tech Tigers

Luke Pawson – Premier Hat trick 3/7 v Cornwall CC

Bayley Latter – 5/20 v NOBM CC

Todd Watson - 6/24 & 4/21 – 10 wkts in a match v Havelock Nth CC

Harry Beale – 5/17 v CHB in the T20 Final at Mclean Park.

Kieran Atkinson - 5/21 v Cornwall CC


Huge thanks as always to Photography by Corena for the snaps!

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WEEKEND RESULTS

Just in case you missed it!

🏆🏅Junior Prizegiving 🏅🏆

On Friday night we started off a huge weekend for our club with our junior prizegiving.

A fantastic night for all involved, huge thanks to all our parents, supporters, sponsors, coaches and our junior players.

You rock!

Our award winners are,

Year 5/6
Scott Findlay Trophy - Best Fielder
- Seb Phillipson

Year 5/6
Sportsworld Napier Trophy - Most Improved
- Ava Parker

Year 5/6
Dave Caldwell Trophy - Best Batter
- Asher Healey

Year 5/6
Michael Pawson Trophy - Best Bowler
- Saul Pipe

Year 5/6
Stevie Smidt Trophy - Coaches Player
- Arlo Ayers

Year 7
Toro Brown Trophy - Best Fielder
- Tommy Nicoll

Year 7
Sportspower Trophy - Most Improved
- Logan Wallace

Year 7
George Diack Trophy - Best Batter
- Huddy Latter

Year 7
Wayne Ewington Trophy - Best Bowler
- Huddy Latter

Year 7
Indika Senarathne Trophy - Coaches Player
- Riley Burch / Ryan Parker

Colts
Ron Turner Trophy - Best Fielder
- Sam Wallace

Colts
Sharplin Family Trophy - Most Improved
- Jacob Rennie

Colts
Craig Findlay Trophy - Best Batter
- Cooper Diack

Colts
Dale Smidt Trophy - Best Bowler
- Lucas Whyte

Colts
Ash Watson Trophy - Coaches Player
- Lucas Collings

Year 11-13
Ray Ellison Trophy - Best Fielder
- Harry Beale

Year 11-13
Bronson Meehan Trophy - Best Batter
- Thomas Hay

Year 11-13
Liam Rukuwai Trophy - Best Bowler
- Luke Pawson

Year 11-13
Kilbirnie Sports Trophy - Most Improved Player
- Kingsley Morris

Findlay Cup - Coach of the year
- Chip Latter

Hat tricks

Sukhjot Singh - 3/8 v Karaka CC
Felix Dagg - 3/11 v Taradale

5 wickets
Cooper Diack 5/36 v Cambridge CC

Thanks to Anna and Charlie for the photo's

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🏆 Winners are grinners🏆🏆

What a fantastic weekend of Cricket from our lads!

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TEAM NAMING

🏆MJ SHRIMPTON MEMORIAL CUP🏆, Grand - Final

Finals Day has arrived, as our Prem's take on Havelock Nth CC today at Nelson Park, 11am start.
1 change to yesterday's team that beat Cornwall by 3 wickets, as we see Harry Beale come into the playing XI
Go well lads!

Huge thanks to our Match day Sponsor for todays Final!- Tech stalwart Paul Whitaker ( Tika)

Tika a Tech legend that played for our premier side 30 years ago and is now based in th UK, but gives generously to our club.
Thanks for your support Tika, much appreciated!

If you can, please get on down and support our lads!

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🏆MJ SHRIMPTON MEMORIAL CUP, Sem - Final day

Knock out cricket has arrived, as our Prem's take on Cornwall CC today at Cornwall Park, 11am start.

With tomorrow's big dance awaiting the winner , we make 3 key changes to last weeks side, as we see the return of Jayden Lennox, Liam McCarthy and Charlie Pawson into the playing XI
Go well lads!

Our Tigers take on NOBM in the 2a Grand final at Nelson Park today. We wish Ram and the team all the best in what should be a close game!

Good luck Teams!

Huge thanks to our Match ball Sponsor for todays Prem's game!- Charlie Pawson from Captured by Charlie Photography

Charlie a Tech junior that has come through our system and into our premier squad, his photography, vidoegraphy and drone work is awesome!
Thanks for your support Charlie, much appreciate!

If you can, please get on down and support our teams!

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