White Ferns offspinner Eden Carson and top order batter Dale Phillips scooped the top awards at the annual Otago Cricket Awards on Wednesday evening.

Carson won a handful of awards including the SBS Bank Otago Sparks Super Smash player of the Year, outstanding individual performance (partnership with PJ Watkins to win the HBJ Shield final) and SBS Bank Otago Sparks bowler of the Year. 

Carson picked up 40 wickets across both formats to surpass the previous Otago record set by teammate Emma Black in the previous season. Carson played a winning role with the bat in assisting the Sparks to lift the HBJ shield.  

Top order batsman Dale Phillips had an impressive season scoring 1094 runs across all formats and developed into a handy offspinner snaring 12 wickets in his breakout bowling season. Phillips surpassed 3,000 First Class runs.  Alongside the Cricketer of the Year award, Phillips was also awarded the Volts batter of the Year, and Volts fielder of the Year.

Key winners during the evening included Otago Sparks Polly Inglis (Batter and Fielder of the Year), Matt Bacon (Ford Trophy Player of the Year and bowler of the Year), Caitlin Blakely (Players Player of the Year), Max Chu (Super Smash Player of the Year and Players Player of the Year), Felicity Robertson (HBJ Player of the Year), Thorn Parkes (Plunket Shield Player of the Year) and Anna Browning and Jamal Todd received the award for rising stars.  

The evening also recognised the talent coming through the Otago and Southland regions, with Anna Browning receiving the Patrons Scholarship.

Otago Cricket would like to again extend our congratulations to all the winners from the evening.  

Otago Cricket Awards 2024 - 2025

Community Awards 

George Clement Morris Match Official Award 

Malcolm Jones

SBS Bank Volunteer of the Year 

Paula Fryer

Community Cricket Coach of the Year 

Craig Smith

Outstanding Individual Performance 

Ruben Clinton

Contribution to Community Cricket 

Adrian Morgan

Pathway Awards 

Otago U17 Women Batter of the Year

Charlotte Morris

Otago U17 Women Bowler of the Year

Sarah Evans

Otago U17 Women Outstanding Performer of the Year

Charlotte Morris

Otago U17 Men Batter of the Year 

Hugo Bogue

Otago U17 Men Bowler of the Year 

Billy Wilson

Otago U17 Men Outstanding Performer of the Year 

Sam Harper 

Otago Under 19 Women Batter of the Year

Georgie McEwan 

Otago Under 19 Women Bowler of the Year

Molly Mason-Galletly 

Otago Under 19 Women Outstanding Performer of the Year 

Georgie McEwan 

Otago Under 19 Men Batter of the Year 

Nick Brown

Otago Under 19 Men Bowler of the Year 

Lloyd Fellowes

Otago Under 19 Men Outstanding Performer 

Daniel Lawrence 

Otago A Women Batter of the Year 

Saffron Wilson

Otago A Women Bowler of the Year 

Chloe Deerness

Otago A Women Outstanding Performer 

PJ Watkins

Otago A Men Batter of the Year 

Jamal Todd

Otago A Men Bowler of the Year 

Thomas O’Connor

Otago A Men Outstanding Performer 

Jamal Todd

Over 70s Men

Paul Facoory 

Over 60s Men

Steve Pringle 

Otago Volts Awards 

Otago Volts Rising Star 

Jamal Todd

Otago Volts Super Smash Player of the Year 

Max Chu

Otago Volts Ford Trophy Player of the Year 

Matt Bacon

Otago Volts Plunket Shield Player of the Year 

Thorn Parkes 

Outstanding Individual Performance

Max Chu and Luke Georgeson 

Otago Volts Fielder of the Year 

Dale Phillips

Otago Volts Bowler of the Year

Matt Bacon

Otago Volts Batter of the Year

Dale Phillips

Otago Volts Players Player of the Year

Max Chu

Otago Volts Cricketer of the Year

Dale Phillips

SBS Bank Otago Sparks Awards  

SBS Bank Otago Sparks Rising Star

Anna Browning 

SBS Bank Otago Sparks Super Smash Player of the Year 

Eden Carson

SBS Bank Otago Sparks Hallyburton Johnstone Shield Player of the Year 

Felicity Robertson

Outstanding Individual Performance

Eden Carson and PJ Watkins

SBS Bank Otago Sparks Bowler of Year

Eden Carson

SBS Bank Otago Sparks Fielder of Year

Polly Inglis

SBS Bank Otago Sparks Batter of the Year 

Polly Inglis

SBS Banks Otago Sparks Players Player of the Year 

Eden Carson

SBS Bank Otago Sparks Cricketer of Year

Emma Black

Patrons Scholarship

Anna Browning 

Representing the White Ferns:  

Bella James

Eden Carson

Emma Black

Polly Inglis

Suzie Bates

South Island Team (North v South series):  

Anna Browning

Bella James

Caitlin Blakely

Eden Carson

Emma Black

Hayley Jensen (C)

Louisa Kotkamp

Olivia Gain

PJ Watkins

Polly Inglis

Representing the Blackcaps:  

Dean Foxcroft

Glenn Phillips 

Jacob Duffy

Prime Ministers XI: 

Hunter Kindley

Jamal Todd  

Representing the New Zealand Men’s Development XI: 

Mason Clarke

Thomas O’Connor

Toby Hart 

NZ Men’s Development Squad:

Mason Clarke

Toby Hart  

Representing New Zealand in the Women’s U19 World Cup:  

Hannah O'Connor 

Louisa Kotkamp

Officials 

International Umpires:

Chris Gaffaney (men only)

Kannan Jagannathan (women only) 

Shaun Haig

International Scorers:

Lindsay Neilson

Malcolm Jones (men only) 

Sarah Tuapati (men only)

Steph Drake

Māori Representation 

NZ Schoolgirls:

Georgie McEwan  

Representing Wāhine Māori:  

Brooke Huddleston

Charlotte Morris

Georgie McEwan

Sarah Evans

Zoe Tait  

Representing Tāne Maori:

Brendan Domigan

Dylan Fletcher

Jeremiah Shields  

Morgan Duffy

Representing Pasifika U19 Boys:

Taine Morgan 

Article added: Thursday 03 April 2025