Albany Junior Association

AJCA Awards

Purpose This policy is to outline procedures for the AJCA to review its awards and to make recommendations for the maintenance of these awards.

Scope This policy applies to the AJCA Executive, persons or Sub Committee appointed by the AJCA Executive to review the awards criteria and processes.

Procedure At the beginning of each season the AJCA Executive Committee is to review its awards list, criteria and categories. At its discretion it can implement changes to the criteria for awards where it deems necessary. The Committee can appoint independent persons or a sub-committee to undertake the review process and make recommendations for awards and the criteria for awards where applicable.

Awards Categories 1. Windup Trophy Presentations: Consists of an approved list of awards to be presented at the Annual Windup. (Refer attached Table 1) 2. Grand Final Trophies and Medals: Consists of awards and presentation of perpetual trophies after the grand final for each grade and competition run by the AJCA (Refer attached Table 2) 3. T20 Grand Final Trophies and Medals: Consists of awards and presentation of perpetual trophies after the U16 T20 Grand Final. (Refer attached Table 2) 4. Life Membership: Voted by Committee on Nomination 2 months prior to AGM 6. Award for the most Promising Junior Cricketer Joe Menegola (refer Table 3) TABLE 1 : Presented at Windup U16 & U14 TYPE Criteria Most Valuable Player TROPHY Most Valuable Player; displaying the Spirit of the Game R/UP Most Valuable Player TROPHY R/Up MVP; displaying the Spirit of the Game Player of the Future TROPHY Player from lower year of age group Coaches Award TROPHY Coaches award U12 TYPE Most Valuable Player TROPHY Most Valuable Player; displaying the Spirit of the Game Player of the Future TROPHY Player from lower year of age group Encouragement Awards TROPHY Great improvement and dedication to the game Coaches Award TROPHY Coaches award Association Awards U16 & U14 Champion Player TROPHY U16 & U14 Batting aggregate TROPHY U16 & U14 Batting: Best average TROPHY U16 Batting 150 runs or more U14 Batting 100 runs or more : Most TROPHY U16 & U14 Bowling : Best Average TROPHY U16 & U14 Bowling 8 wickets or more

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TABLE 2 : Presented a Grand Final (after game) Title Type Order # When U16 Perpetual Trophy CUP Arrange engraving after windup U16 Team Medallionsx12 Order with Wind up trophies U16: player of Grand Final TROPHY Order with Wind up trophies U14 Perpetual Trophy CUP Arrange engraving after windup U14 Team Medallions x 12 Order with Wind up trophies U14: player of Grand Final TROPHY Order with Wind up trophies U16: Perpetual Trophy T20 Cup Arrange engraving after windup U16 Team Medallions x12 Order with Wind up trophies U16: player of Grand Final T20 TROPHY Order with Wind up trophies

TABLE 3 : Presented at Wind UP

Title Type CRITERIA: voted by Committee with no vested interest.

Joe Menegola Perpetual Trophy and Trophy Please consider Trophy  Outstanding U16 competition Performance  Country Week Performance  Senior Competition Performance  Carnival Performance  Cricket Ambassador  last year in junior cricket age level U16

Joe Menegola died in Albany aged 74. His name was known the length and breadth of WA for his outstanding skill as a cricketer and as a master of that most difficult art of all - leg-spin bowling. It was not only his peerless ability, but also his longevity as a successful spin bowler that was remarkable. His achievements became the stuff of legend among country cricketers, and he was recognised in the recently published book Bradmans of the Bush, an honour shared by the member for Wagin, who can testify to Joe Menegola’s ability.

To give those who never saw him bowl an idea, imagine a small, neat player with the olive skin of his Italian heritage, who could land the ball impeccably on a spot and spin it prodigiously just like , and the picture begins to form. Add to that the mental image of batsmen, from those of the highest international standard to country sloggers, being completely bamboozled, and the picture is more complete. Even if those batsmen could figure out which way the ball was likely to spin - to off as a leg spinner or to leg as a wrong ’un - the amount of turn, and then the dip in the air and the leap and fizz off the from the infusion of top spin would startle them.

Many people have asked, if Joe Menegola was so good, why did he never play for or Australia? The answer is not lack of ability, but rather the dynamics of the time in which he lived and played, and the responsibilities of family life. Like Bruce Yardley, Joe

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Albany Junior Cricket Association Menegola did not take to spin bowling until his twenties, and did not mature in his craft until he was nearly 30. Picked in a Western Australian country XI in 1960 against Sir Frank Worrell’s visiting West Indies team, he took four wickets for 19 runs. Imagine the impact of a similar performance today. By then, Joe was married with a young family of daughters and was working in the family sawmilling business in Albany. Packing up and moving was just not done as readily or as lightly as it is today. Joe said that the arrival of the great English off-spinner Tony Locke into the Western Australian state team as captain in the early 1960s put paid to any idea he might have had of moving to Perth. He was in his thirties. People would have expected his ability to soon fade, and other younger spin bowlers like Ashley Mallet and Terry Jenner had to move to other States to get opportunities.

Joe’s ability did not fade. He had repeated success against visiting international and domestic all-star teams and, along with other outstanding players, made Albany a powerhouse in country cricket for decades. His total number of wickets at country week was well in excess of 600, and in 1974, aged 45, he took 47 wickets in five games. He played successfully well into his fifties.

Incidentally, cricket was not his first love; it was football. He was an outstanding goal-kicking rover and helped to found the Albany Royals football club in 1945. He was awarded an MBE for community service, and his wife Fran also contributed thousands of hours to the football and cricket communities of the Great Southern. Joe was a unique character.

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