CSA Amateur Awards: Amateur players received their awards for their effort in the past season.
CSA Amateur Awards took place on June 3.
ON Wednesday, June 3, Cricket South Africa (CSA) hosted its annual CSA Amateur Awards in association with KFC, where the stars of the amateur cricket scene were honoured.
The awards commemorated the accomplishments of the growing talent in the country as CSA continues to drive its vision of making cricket a national sport of winners.
Dinesha Devnarain received CSA’s first ever Women’s Provincial Cricketer of the Year award for her outstanding work as both captain and coach of the KwaZulu-Natal Coastal team. Other big winners included Janneman Malan (Coca-Cola SA u.19 Cricketer of the Year), Dean Foxcroft (Coca-Cola Schools T20 Player of the Tournament), Enoch Nkwe of the Gauteng Strikers (Pitch Vision Semi-Professional Coach of the Year).
Murray Coetzee took home the Student Cricketer of the Year award for his stellar work with the bat during the 2014/15 USSA A-Week. Keegan Petersen, from University of Stellenbosch (Maties), was named Momentum Club Championship Player of the Tournament. This is Petersen’s second-consecutive CSA award. In 2013/14, he received the CSA Provincial Three-Day Cricketer of the Year (now Sunfoil Three-Day Cup Cricketer of the Year) award. Although he did not come from the winning team this year, Petersen made a huge impact with the bat, for Maties, to get them to the final. He scored 323 runs in six innings, with a highest score of 158 and a strike rate of 92.82. He was “not-out” three times with two half-centuries, 35 fours, six sixes and six catches overall.
In the provincial cricket awards, Gauteng’s Devon Conway was named CSA Provincial T20 Cricketer of the Year, while Kyle Nipper (KZN Inland) and Dale Deeb (Gauteng) took home the CSA Provincial One-Day and Sunfoil Cup Three-Day Cricketer of the Year awards respectively.
