Devon Cricket Board - Good night for Bovey at DCB awards evening

Good night for Bovey at DCB awards evening

BOVEY Tracey’s young batsmen and bowlers had a night to remember at the Devon Cricket Awards evening.
Five Bovey youngsters won individual awards across the age groups from under-12 to under-15.
And it was a special night for brother and sister Taylor and Ellie Ingham-Hill, who were named players of the year for their respective teams.
Taylor Ingham-Hill was Devon U11s' player of the year for his figures of 11 wickets at 15.64 each and 71 runs too. He is pictured (above) collecting his trophy from guest of honour Ryan Stevenson.
Big sister Ellie was nominated as batsman and bowler of the year for Devon Girls’ U15 side.
She missed out to Bovey club-mate Libby McNally (right) in the batting category and Sophie Florides (Topsham SJ) in the bowling section.
However, Ellie saw off Florides and Chloe Rose to claim the player of the year award.
The England coaching team clearly like the look of Ellie as she has been invited to play in a Development tournament, as has county colleague Rose Ball (Tarka Ladies).
McNally pipped Ellie and Daisy Meadowcroft for the girls’ bowling prize.
Up-and-coming keeper-batter Sam Taylor, who made his 1^st XI Premier debut for Bovey aged just 13, was the Devon U14s’ batter of the season. He hit 215 runs with a top score of 60.
Bovey Tracey’s fifth and final winner was Chris Yabsley, who spun his way to the under-15 bowling prize with 13 county scalps at 16.07 apiece. He won the same award last season in the under-14s.
Paignton’s strength in the younger age-groups of the county sides was recognised with three awards.
For the second season running Archie Farkins (left) was player of the year, this time as an under-11 player.
Queens Park pal Rory Meadlock - batsman of the year in 2014 – was bowler of the season in 2015 with 11 wickets at 21 runs each.
Charlie Ward, with 16 wickets at less than 12 runs each, took the bowling prize at under-12 level.
The palm d’or of the youth awards is the Buller Bowl awarded to the young player of the year.
County youth chairman Jim Parker had the tough task of sifting through the talent and finding a successor to two-time winner Ben Green, who has gone from Clyst St George via Exeter to England U19s in barely seven years.
Parker’s shortlist included Torquay spin bowler Matt Petherbridge, Rec Ground team-mate Kazi Szymanski and Dan Pyle.
Petherbridge (right) took 33 wickets in his debut Premier season and made his Minor Counties debut for Devon a week before his 16^th birthday.
Szymanski was bowler of the tournament at this year’s Bunbury Festival and Pyle scored a county youth record 241 against Hamsphire.
The winner was Exeter’s Tom Lammonby, who scored five Devon tons in 2015, played for Somerset 2^nd XI, was top batter at the Bunbury Festival and starts on the Somerset Academy next month.
Petherbridge’s compensation was to beat Harry Ward and Billy Rudolph to claim the Devon U16 bowling prize.

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