Warriors captain Smuts scoops player of the year award

Captain Jon-Jon Smuts was crowned the player of the year for the 2017/2018 season at the Warriors awards ceremony on Wednesday night.
Smuts also walked away with the Momentum One Day Cup player of the series award.
This season, the team recorded their best performances in the four-day Sunfoil Series and Momentum One Day Cup.
Simon Harmer was named the Warriors Sunfoil four-day cricketer of the series and received the bowling award, while Christiaan Jonker took the 20 overs batting and player of the series awards.
The most promising player of the year award went to Anrich Nortje, Sisanda Magala received the Warriors 50 overs bowling award and Ghihahn Cloete was awarded the 50 overs batting prize.
The trio will represent the South Africa ‘A’ side when they tour India next month.
The player highlights of the past season include Smuts again being called up for the Standard Bank Proteas T20 side and Jonker receiving his first call-up to the Proteas team.
Matthew Breetzke represented SA at the Under 19 Cricket World Cup and he received the U19 cricketer of the year award at the 2018 Cricket South Africa Awards.
The younger generation of players like Lutho Sipamla and Breetzke were also selected to take part in the Powerade National Academy programme.
Harmer claimed the CSA award for Sunfoil Series Player of the Year – 2017/2018 season – and Smuts was voted as the South African Cricket Association’s most valuable player for the 2017/2018 season.
Warriors chief operations officer Mark Williams said the past season had been successful for the club in franchise cricket domestic competitions.
Sunfoil Series
Batting Award – Colin Ackermann
Bowling Award – Simon Harmer
Player of the Series – Simon Harmer
 
Momentum One Day Cup
Batting Award – Gihahn Cloete
Bowling Award – Sisanda Magala
Player of the Series – Jon-Jon Smuts
 
RamSlam T20
Batting Award – Christiaan Jonker
Bowling Award – Andrew Birch
Player of the Series – Christiaan Jonker
Newcomer of The Year – Anrich Nortje
Player of The Year – Jon-Jon Smuts

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