Cricket Ireland was awarded Best Women’s Cricket Initiative for their Leinster and Irish Women’s Cricket forum. Organised by Siobhan McBennett and Catherine Goodman, the forum saw Ireland players, coaches and volunteers attend a highly interactive workshop session aimed at identifying a range of critical issues for women’s cricket nationally.
Key outcomes from the forum were fed in to the Cricket Ireland Irish High Performance plan 2008-2015 and have already resulted in an increase in funding towards the Women’s game this year.
The Photo of the Year was taken by Barry Chambers of Ireland . A very unique entry, Barry’s photo montage captures Mahaboob Alam of Nepal taking all ten wickets during the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division Five match against Mozambique in Jersey in June 2008.The montage was presented to Alam at the end of the tournament to commemorate his exceptional achievement; however Barry’s ability to capture each and every wicket was also a remarkable achievement in itself - a key reason why Barry was selected as the worthy winner of this category.
