Knysna's cricketers feature at 2023 CSA Awards

KNYSNA NEWS - Cricket South Africa (CSA) has unveiled the nominees for the annual CSA Awards in recognition of "A Summer to Celebrate" for the 2022-23 season. The nominees include Knysna resident Tazmin Brits, former Knysna Cavaliers player Sean Whitehead, and Knysnarian Tristan Stubbs.

The 2023 CSA Awards will be held on 7 July at Vodaworld, Midrand, at the first in-person ceremony post-Covid lockdowns.

The event recognises leading performers in cricket from this past season. A host of professional awards for both the national and domestic levels will be presented at the glittering ceremony which will be broadcast on SuperSport, while several nominees have also been confirmed for a variety of pathway awards that will be handed out on the morning of 7 July.

Among the nominees is Knysna local Tristan Stubbs, who is up for not only one but two awards. He has been nominated for the honour of Division 1 One-Day Cup Player of the Season, as well as the International Men's Newcomer of the Year award.

Fellow Knysna resident and Proteas hero of the ICC T20 Women's World Cup, Tazmin Brits, is a nominee in three categories – SA Fans' Player of the Year, Women's T20 International Player of the Year and CSA Women's Provincial Player of the Year.

Various personnel and players of the Six Gun Grill Garden Route Badgers are also nominees.

The head coach of the Badgers for the past season, Piet Botha, who was at the helm when the Badgers won the CSA Division 2 One-day Cup is a nominee for the Division 2 Coach of the Year.

Sean Whitehead

The Garden Route Badgers Player of the Season and SWD Cricket T20 Competition Player of the Season, left-arm off-spinner Sean Whitehead who played club cricket for the Cavaliers last season, is a finalist in the Division 2 Four-day Domestic Series Player of the Season category while Basheer Walters is a finalist in the One-day Cup Player of the Season category for Division 2.

Garden Route Badgers Women's captain, Haroline Rhodes, is also a finalist in the CSA Women's Provincial Player of the Season.

Martelize van der Merwe, the successful coach of the Garden Route Badgers women's team, is a finalist in the category Women's Provincial Coach of the Year.

Tristan Stubbs in action for Manchester Originals in The Hundred.