GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - Six Gun Grill Garden Route Badgers' batting hero, George van Heerden, won the prestigious Garden Route Badgers player of the season award at their annual awards breakfast ceremony, held at the Wilderness Hotel in George on Saturday morning.
Proteas Women all-rounder, Annerie Dercksen, who excelled for the Proteas women's team at international level and was a star player for the Badgers women in the Hollywoodbets professional women's competition, won the Garden Route Badgers Women's player of the season award.
Van Heerden was the top runs scorer for the Badgers across all formats and was the overall top runs scorer in the Division 2 four-day competition – he scored 515 runs with a highest score of 174 at an average of 64.37, with two centuries and two half-centuries.
Dercksen also received the Simon Swigelaar Floating Trophy for her outstanding achievements, including the award as ICC newcomer of the year for 2024.
Lee-Henry Meyer (Union Stars CC), for his outstanding bowling performances, was the premier league player of the season, while Berthal September (Heidelberg United CC) won this award for the promotion league, Lesley Maksella (Western Hope CC) for Reserve League Division 1, and Carlton Rasmus (Beaufort West CC) for Reserve League Division 2.
Ricardo Majolla (Pacaltsdorp United CC) was named the T20 player of the season and Harolene Rhodes (Union Stars) – who scored the most runs in the women's league – received the award as women's player of the season.
Jané Winster (Union Stars CC) was the Women's Division 1 T20 league player of the season and Kim Malgas (Knysna Cavaliers CC) the women's division 2 T20 player of the season. Miviwe Muteyi (Thembalethu CC) won the Women's Division 2 T20 player of the season award.
Other achievements from Knysna/Plettenberg Bay that were recognised are:
Most runs in U19 promotion league:
Austin Behr (Wittedrift High)
Batter of the season: Women Division 2 League: Camerodien Swartz (Knysna Cavaliers)
Bowler of the season: Women Division 2 League: Camerodien Swartz (Knysna Cavaliers)
Batter of the season: Women Twenty20 League: Kim Malgas (Knysna Cavaliers CC)
Schools league winners
U19 Promotion League: Wittedrift High School
League winners
Women Division 2: Knysna Cavaliers
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