Cambridgeshire’s young cricketers attend annual end-of-season awards event

Seb Harrison and Isbaella James picked up the two big prizes at Cambridgeshire Young Cricketer’s annual presentation event earlier this month.

Harrison, who plays his club cricket for Little Shelford, took home the Rajen Mahendra Trophy for overall boys’ Player of the Year following a campaign in which he scored 634 runs at an average of 53.58.

The teenager’s total included an unbeaten 173 and he also made his mark as a slip fielder.

Meanwhile, the overall girls’ Player of the Year accolade went to James, who scored 181 runs across the Under-18 Girls’ and Women’s senior teams.

James also backed those runs up with the ball, taking 11 wickets at an average of 13.36.

As well as captaining the Under-18s in both formats, James enjoyed success at regional academy level with the Sunrisers, for whom she scored 111 runs and took 12 wickets.

The duo were two of 244 players to represent Cambridgeshire in their 12 age-group squads this year.

Despite the rain, these squads played 197 matches against external opposition alongside a number of intra-squad games. Eleven centuries were scored by nine different players, while nine five-or-more-wicket hauls were taken by eight different bowlers.

Age group Player of the Years: Tom Lance (U10 B), Sophie Hull (U11 G), Dhrona Irinjalakudakkaran (U11 B), Neel Kumar (U12 B), Edith Ayliffe (U13 G), Jack Carnegie (U13 B), James Mitchell (U14 B), Elsa Mills Thomas (U15 G), Reuben Thain (U15 B), Adi Dattya (U16 B), May Busher (U18 G), Henry Wilson (U18 B).