The Len Nibaldi Award
Prior to the 2022/2023 season, the committee agreed to acknowledge the player who took the most wickets for the season across all the grades. The recipient would receive the Len Nibaldi Award, named after club bowling legend, Len Nibaldi, who has taken 785 wickets at an average of 17.5, over 41 years of service and bowling 5,084.4 overs.
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As the award was only created in time for the 2022/2023 season, our club statistician, Leigh Gunn is madly reviewing the club record books to go back in time and acknowledge historic recipients. Starting with the modern history books that are readily accessible online and date back to 2001, followed by our foundation years as the St. Leonards Cricket Club, 1960 through to 1972.
1960/1961 to 1971/1972
1960-61 Steven Buchanan & Kevin Fewster 25
1961-62 Les Gregory 43
1962-63 Ron Goldberg & Ian Mountain 46
1963-64 Ron Goldberg 54
1964-65 Bob Harris 37
1965-66 Bob Harris 56
1966-67 Bill Knott 39
1967-68 Peter Carr 42
1968-69 Alby Johns 61
1969-70 Bob Harris 38
1970-71 Joe Nelson 32
1971-72 Joe Nelson & Les Stolarik 48
2001/2002 to 2022/2023
2001-02 Steven Green 34
2002-03 Mayank Maini 35
2003-04 Andrew Fitzgerald 36
2004-05 Malcolm Chatto & Andrew Fitzgerald 25
2005-06 M. Chatto, A. Fitzgerald & D. Sheean 22
2006-07 Michael MacDonald 20
2007-08 Jake Brown 28
2008-09 Michael MacDonald & Len Nibaldi 28
2009-10 Sebastian Hogan 32
2010-11 Brett Mugridge 26
2011-12 Nevyn Richardson 33
2012-13 Malcolm Chatto & Nick Verity 36
2013-14 Darren Johnson 31
2014-15 Andrew Fitzgerald 30
2015-16 Errol Fernando 28
2016-17 Brett Mugridge 26
2017-18 David Foley 30
2018-19 Michael MacDonald 21
2019-20 Darren Johnson 26
2020-21 Dilhan Rahubadde 28
2021-22 Bipanpreet Singh 27
2022-23 Lukas Brett 31