Adelaide captain Luke Williams has won the prestigious Bradman Medal with 28 votes, just one vote from Woodville’s Chadd Sayers, who polled 27 votes.
Williams, an opening batsman who scored 640 runs this year at an average of 64, is a previous winner of the Bradman Medal, having secured it in 2006.
It was an unlucky night for Sayers, however, who was relegated to runner-up after Williams was awarded votes in the last match, setting him up to win by the narrowest of margins. Sayers was also runner-up last year to Ben Hook.
Southern District’s Gary Putland polled third with 23 votes, ahead of Cullen Bailey on 20 votes.
In other awards tonight:
The Team of the Year, which is voted for by captains and coaches is (in batting order):
Luke Williams, Adelaide
Jake Brown, Kensington
Shane Deitz, Southern District
Daniel Harris, (c), Woodville
Andrew Delmont, Adelaide University
Michael Cranmer, East Torrens
Chadd Sayers, Woodville
Cullen Bailey, Sturt
Joshua McLean (wk), Adelaide
Gary Putland, Southern District
Neil Rowe, Glenelg
Oliver Thomas, Sturt
Woodville’s Dean Sayers was named Coach of the year
Grade cricket umpire of the year – Andrew Willoughby (also won last year)
Grade cricket volunteer of the year, Brenton Evans, Port Adelaide
Adelaide and Woodville jointly won the Team Award for the team which polled the most player votes in the Bradman Medal count. Both teams polled 94 votes, with West Torrens next best placed on 85.
The Fred Godson Medal for the XXXX Gold Cup Player of the Series was won by Adelaide’s Blake Lenthall on 17 votes. Lenthall scored 241 runs at 60.25 and took five wickets at 24.6. Adelaide’s Nathan Job finished on 15 votes, ahead of Tea Tree Gully’s Carl Cachopa and Kensington’s Jake Brown, who both polled 13 votes.
The C.W. Walker Memorial Trophy for most outstanding wicket-keeper was again awarded to Adelaide’s Josh McLean, following on from a win last year, and the Talbot Smith Fielding Trophy was awarded to Adelaide’s Sam Raphael.
The KC Butler Medal for the most outstanding player in the B Grade competition was won by Warrick Stanborough of Glenelg. Northern Districts' Darren Huitema won the Sid Daly Medal for the best player in the C Grade and the McLeod/Wilson Medal for the best player in D Grade was won by Srinivas Kumar of Woodville.
The Karen Rolton Medal, for the most outstanding female player in the A Grade competition was awarded to Australian player Kris Britt from Sturt. Britt, who polled 38 votes, also won the award last year. She scored 776 runs at 155.2 and took 9 wickets at 14. Tea Tree Gully's Tamara Clapton won the Lyn Fullston Medal for the best player in the B Grade competition and Sonia Mangelsen from Port Adelaide won the Carolyn Dittmar Medal for C Grade.
The indigenous medal, now known as the Vince Copley Medal, for best player of the Indigenous Carnival finished in a tie between Baden Moore, of Gerard, and Peter Thomas, of Kaurna.
The Jason Gillespie Medal, for Grade cricket’s rising star, was awarded to East Torrens’ Michael Cranmer, who represented Australia in the Under 19 World Cup, and made 351 runs at 50.14, and took 10 wickets at 19.9 for his club in just eight matches.
