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Leading prizes were
awarded on Wednesday night at the New Zealand Cricket Awards in Christchurch to
Rachin Ravindra and Amelia Kerr. While Kerr won the Debbie Hockley Medal for
women’s cricket for the second consecutive year, Ravindra, 24, became the youngest
player to win New Zealand’s highest men’s cricket accolade, the Sir Richard
Hadlee Medal.
With the medal, Ravindra completed an incredible season that marked his
international debut and left his imprint across all formats for New Zealand.
During the 2023 ODI World Cup in India, he was a rising star, amassing 3
hundreds and 578 runs at an average of 64. Additionally, earlier this year at
Bay Oval, he achieved his first Test hundred (240 runs) and assisted New
Zealand score their first Test series win against South Africa.
In addition to
winning the Debbie Hockley Medal, Kerr was also named the Super Smash women’s
player of the year, as well as the ODI and T20I player of the year. She was the
top run scorer in ODIs for New Zealand (541 at an average of 67), tied for
second place in T20Is in terms of runs scored (252 at a strike rate of 118),
and their greatest wicket-taker in T20Is.
In addition to being voted the Test player of the year in New Zealand, Kane
Williamson won the Redpath Cup for first-class men’s batting. Williamson
finished the six Test matches that were under consideration with four hundreds
and 619 runs at an average of 56. The players of the year for T20I and ODI
cricket were Mitchell Santner and Daryl Mitchell, respectively.
The Bert Sutcliffe
Medal for outstanding service to cricket was awarded to administrator Trudy
Anderson. She was responsible for operations at Canterbury Cricket for 21 years
and played important roles in the New Zealand leg of the 2015 ODI World Cup, the
2022 Women’s World Cup, and at the 2010 and 2018 Men’s U-19 World Cups.