South Australia Cricket Umpire Awards

06 May 2022

The 2021-22 South Australian Cricket Premier Cricket season drew to a close last month when the South Australia Cricket Umpires & Scorers Association held their end of season awards presentation in Adelaide.

The season’s umpiring and scoring awards were presented with the season’s top prize going to Darran Swain who took out the Tony Crafter Award for the second year running. Craig Thomas was earlier named the South Australia Umpire of the Year at the Bradman & Rolton Medal event.

Full list of award winners

• SACA Premier Cricket Umpire of the Year – Craig Thomas
• Tony Crafter Award – Panel 1 Umpire of the Year: Darran Swain
• Joyce McMenamin Award – Judy Little
• Max O’Connell Award – Panel 2 Umpire of the Year: John Nemcic
• Davis-Harper Award – Panel 3 Umpire of the Year: Tim Tonkin
• Mel McInnes Award – Panel 4 Umpire of the Year: Edward Branson
• Colin Egar Award – Panel 5 Umpire of the Year: Richard Williams
• Development Squad Umpire of the Year: Tim Tonkin
• John Wilson Award – Merlin Amos (Para Districts CA)
• Peter Weeks Award – Community Umpire of the Year: Andrew Tyson (ATCA)
• Buckett-Hammond Award – Scorer of the Year: Lesley Quaini (Woodville CC)
• Hall of Fame Inductee: Thomas Lowrey OAM

2021/22 Match Officials Milestones

Umpiring Milestones
• Michial Farrow – 500 games
• Bruce Stribley – 500 games
• Dhaval Bhatt – 200 games
• Tim Hart – 200 games
• Anthony Laintoll - 200 games 
• James Asseton - 100 games 
• Shaun Hughes – 100 games
• Kurt Miegel – 100 games
• Sumit Sindhu – 100 games
• Shaun Wild – 100 games
• John Williams – 100 games

Scorer Milestones
• Neil Ricketts – 600 games
• Ian Graham – 300 games
• Hitesh Bajoria – 100 games