BAILEY’S BIG MEDAL WIN
AFTER 14 years of trying, Tigers captain George Bailey has finally won his first Ricky Ponting Medal.
In a minor shock, Bailey, 35, took out the prestigious award with 223 votes, ahead of up and coming star batsman Jake Doran (197 votes), strike bowler Jackson Bird (194) and Jordan Silk (179).
Bailey also picked up the Jack Simmons Medal as the state’s best one-day player, which went a long way to helping him to the overall award.
He averaged 33.4 in the Sheffield Shield competition and 62.2 at a strike rate of better than a run a ball with one century and three halfcenturies in six one-day games.
Georgia Redmayne (124 votes) was the Roar’s player of the year just ahead of Isobel Joyce (122) and Erin Fazackerley (110).
Doran was pipped for the overall award, but claimed his first David Boon Medal as the shield player of the year for his breakthrough season of 756 runs at 44.5.
Both the Hurricanes BBL and WBBL player of the year awards were one-sided affairs with batting sensation D’Arcy Short racing to the men’s award with 280 votes ahead of Jofra Archer (201) and Dan Christian (190).
All-rounder Hayley Matthews was even more dominant in the women’s, streaking away with 352 votes from Veronica Pyke (221) and Redmayne (195).
The Jamie Cox young player of the year was taken out by boom recruit Tom Rogers while Fazackerley won the women’s equivalent.
Rogers and Doran also shared the Scott Mason’s captain medal awarded by Bailey, while Silk was presented with the Chairman’s award.
Kingborough’s Rhys Ward was Tasmania’s national indigenous carnival player of the tournament while Roar and Hurricanes veteran Emily Divin was recognised after announcing her retirement.