The highlight of the Westmorland Cricket League’s presentation night was a special League Achievement award to Mike Bracken of the Sedgwick club.
Mike donated a kidney to save the life of a teammate in the early season and by the end of the campaign was strapping on his pads again.
President Peter Wilson said of him: “He has been one of the stand-out players in the League since the 1990s, part of a team that won the League and finished second three times in that decade.
“He has always been ultra-competitive on the field, always looking to unsettle the batsman and find a way of aiding his bowlers to gain a wicket.
“He has been an opening batsmen of distinction, always busy looking for an opportunity to score and busy between the wickets.
“Off the field one of the nicest men you could meet with a unique sense of humour, he took mateship in cricket to a new level when he donated a kidney in early summer to childhood friend George Willacy. It was great to see him back on the field before the end of the season.”
More than 130 people attended the end of season presentation evening when Lewis Plackett received the Bateman Shield on behalf of his Championship winning Heysham side.
For the first time the League awarded trophies to the outstanding female players. Georgina Brown won the batting prize and Grace Airey the bowling.
Captains selected the Divisional teams of the year:
Division 1: Ethan Ellwood (Burneside), Lewis Plackett (Heysham), Adam Richardson (Arnside), Phil Bovis (Heysham), James Royce (Kirkby Lonsdale), Shane Hyland (Kendal), Sam Calverley (Heysham), Riley Wilson (Heysham), Graeme Crowther (Warton), Lee Barnes (Holme), Jonny Matthews (Sedgwick).
Division 2: Bob Davies (Cartmel), Rob Warne (Coniston), Jon Mason (Silverdale), Bob Simpson (Coniston), Mike Burton (Coniston), Mike Wills (Milnthorpe), Harry Wallbank (Heysham), James Hesketh (Heysham), Barney Wileman (Ambleside), Mike Mead (Shireshead), Joe Atkinson (Cartmel).
Division 3: Ed Hart (Arnside), Mark Baldwin (Trimpell), Paul Thompson (Trimpell), Kyle Hinds (Leven Valley), Mark Ward (Burneside), Dan Sykes (Windermere), Matthew France (Ingleton), Will Aspinwall (Windermere), Luke Gorst (Ingleton), Danny Halstead (Trimpell), Josh Capstick (Ingleton).
Division 4 North: Oliver Williams (Ulverston), Mike Dugdale (Kendal), Blake Airey (Burneside), Paul Hodgson (Kendal), Georgina Brown (Ingleton), Ross Swidenbank (Kendal), Adam Knowles (Appleby Eden), Simon Coulton (Netherfield), Rob Timms (Burneside) Isaac Moorby (Burneside), David McGonnigal (Ingleton).
DIvision 4 South: Niall Parkinson (Kirkby Lonsdale), David Sloan (Shireshead), Paul Coulton (Shireshead), Dineshmanickam Annadurai (Morecambe), Ethan Packard (Morecambe), Thamjid Nalakath (Milnthorpe), Oliver Toulmin (Heysham), Thomas Atkinson (Shireshead), Rowan Yates (Shireshead), Freddie Ashcroft (Sedgwick), Brad Brentnall (Sedgwick)
