Recently retired cricketer Erin Osborne has ended her career on a high, claiming the honour of the Meteors Player of the Year at the annual 2021/22 ACT Cricket Awards.
The event was held on Friday night at the Canberra Southern Cross Club in Woden, celebrating the individual and team performances from the Cricket ACT Premier competition, Women's National Cricket League, and Toyota Futures League.
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Osborne, 32, took out the Calver Medal a week after her player-of-the-match performance in her last hurrah in professional cricket.
Cherie Taylor won the SJ Moore Medal for the Women's Player of the Year and fellow Western District player Scott Murn was tied for the First Grade Player of the Year award with Queanbeyan's Mark Solway.
The latter was also the T20 Player of the Series, his brother Dean Solway finished with the most runs in men's first grade (597) and their teammate Kai Brunker had the most wickets (23).
Katie Mack and Rebecca Carter both scored the most runs in women's first grade (231) and Osborne's Meteors teammate Carly Leeson finished on top with 20 wickets for Eastlake and Queanbeyan.
Western District and Eastlake legend SJ Moore - whom the Women's Player of the Year award is named after - was inducted alongside Keith Carnall into the Cricket ACT Hall of Fame.
Moore is recognised as one of the capital's most successful women's grade players between the mid-1980s until the mid 2000s, winning 18 premierships over 240 matches, and also represented ACT 33 times.
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Carnall scored the very first century at Manuka Oval and was also the first to hit a six there.
He played first grade for the original Eastlake club, Canberra, Northbourne and Ainslie over 29 years, winning four titles. He represented the territory from 1923 until 1946 when he captained the side in his final match, finishing with 65 appearances.
Jake and Amber Smith were the Male and Female Pathway Player of the Year respectively. Southern Pride's Vinesh Bennett took out the indoor cricket award and Queanbeyan was named Club of the Year.
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Melanie Dinjaski
Melanie Dinjaski is an experienced sports journalist at the Canberra Times with a genuine love of all sports. She's covered every code from NRL to NFL, and has experience in print, digital, podcasting, TV and video journalism, having spent time working in newsrooms at Nine, Fox Sports and Seven before moving to the capital. Melanie aims to bring Canberrans all the sports news they need to know - have a story worth sharing? Get in touch!
Melanie Dinjaski is an experienced sports journalist at the Canberra Times with a genuine love of all sports. She's covered every code from NRL to NFL, and has experience in print, digital, podcasting, TV and video journalism, having spent time working in newsrooms at Nine, Fox Sports and Seven before moving to the capital. Melanie aims to bring Canberrans all the sports news they need to know - have a story worth sharing? Get in touch!
