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At the conclusion of the Junior Cricket season a number of awards are considered and allocated based on specified criteria as described below.

These awards are presented at the MCC Juniors Presentation Day (usually the first Saturday after the NSJCA season grand finals.)

Each MCC Junior receives a participation trophy.

MCC Junior Team Awards

Each team coach selects a player for each of the following awards:

• Team Batting Award
• Team Bowling Award
• Most Improved
• Coaches Award

Coaches are given liberty to determine their own selection criteria for each of the four MCC team awards.  However there are some basic conventions that will assist coaches for U10 to U16.

Team Batting Award:

• Highest aggregate runs for the season premiership rounds (does not include semi and finals games).
• If equal aggregate runs, then best batting average.
• Be aware this criteria is tracked by MyCricket and players are likely to have a high expectation this award will be in accordance with the player statistics available for all to see by accessing the MyCricket Statistics.

Team Bowling Award:

• Highest aggregate wickets for the season premiership rounds (does not include semi and finals games).
• If equal aggregate wickets, then best bowling average.
• Be aware this criteria is tracked by MyCricket and players are likely to have a high expectation this award will be in accordance with the player statistics available for all to see by accessing the MyCricket Statistics.
  

Most Improved

• No conventional criteria for this award.
• Opportunity for coach to recognize a player who has responded to coaching/training and/or game experience.
  
  

Coaches Award

• No conventional criteria for this award.
• Could be used as a:
  • Fielding award, or
  • Sportsmanship award, or
  • On field motivator or Leadership award, or
  • Best at training, or
  • Runner up for another MCC Team Award, or
  • General encouragement award.
    
    

A specific MCC Juniors criteria that will be enforced is that no player wins more than one Team Award in order to share recognition amongst a minimum of four players per team. This will mean that where a player has both the best Batting and Bowling statistics, the coach will need to decide which award to give to the player that finished second.

MCC Junior Awards

LJ Hooker Trophy (Most Successful Junior Team)                 

1. finishing position in final series, if equal then
2. finishing position at end of round games, if equal then
3. for and against quotient (net runs divided by net wickets) at end of round games

Julian Wintle Trophy (Best Junior Player on Club championship ranking)

• The Club championship ranking is based on all games played for MCC over the season premiership rounds (does not include semi and finals games).
• The MyCricket Club Champion function is used to determine the Best Junior Player

Hammy Love Trophy (Best Junior Club Member)

• This award is selected by the MCC Juniors committee and may be from any of the following categories.
  • Junior player
  • Team Coach or Manager
  • MCC Junior administrator

The NSJCA conducts a presentation day at the conclusion of the season that includes a number of awards that are specified in the NSJCA Blue Book. 

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS AND TROPHIES

Awards are made in all U10 to U16/17 competitions to the players who, at the completion of the

competition rounds have:

• The highest aggregate runs
• The highest average runs
• The lowest strike rate per wicket (number of balls bowled per wicket taken)
• The lowest average runs per wicket subject to meeting the meeting the minimum standards set out below:

Players in all U11 to U16/17 competitions are eligible to win the Association Wicket Keeping trophy for their competition. (No wicket keeping trophies are awarded in the U9 or U10 age groups because teams generally rotate wicket keeping duties amongst several players.) Subject to meeting the minimum requirement, a trophy is awarded to the wicket keeper in each competition

who accumulates the most points over the competition rounds on the following basis:

• 3 points for each catch
• 4 points for each stumping
• minus 0.2 points for each bye conceded.

The minimum number of wicket keeping points in order to qualify for a wicket keeping trophy is 40 for all age groups.

It is desirable that there is a winner of each award and trophy in each competition every season.

Therefore, the Management Committee may, at its discretion, vary the criteria for the individual awards and trophies. (For example, if no player meets the minimum requirement for a batting award in a particular competition, the Management Committee may reduce the requirement in order to make an award. Similarly, if an abnormal number of rounds have been washed out, the Management Committee may reduce the qualifying levels for one or more of the awards.)

Awards will be based on individual statistics submitted via the MyCricket website. If MyCricket does not facilitate the recording of byes against more than one wicket keeper used in the same match, the Management Committee may choose to ignore the deduction for byes conceded for the purposes of determining the wicket keeping awards.