Oxfordshire Cricket is pleased to launch this year’s 2021 Grassroots Cricket Awards, which seeks to reward and recognise volunteers across Oxfordshire who has made a difference to their club or community group. This year we will look to reward and recognise volunteers through expanding events such as the Finals Day and Pathway Awards at Wormsley, to see it now include the 2021 Grassroot Cricket Awards. There will also be further events that will look to reward and recognise volunteers.

There are eight award categories that will allow us to recognise and reward those in Oxfordshire that have made an outstanding contribution to cricket this year, be it a young volunteer who has gone over and above or a club that has excelled in opening up the game to a brand new audience this summer.

The categories are as follows:

• Connecting Communities – A Club or community organisation that has gone above and beyond the call of cricket to support communities/groups coming back to the game we love.
• Inspired to play – An Individual or group within your club or community organisation going above and beyond to open the game up to new audiences.
• Rising Star Award – Young volunteer making a difference – 11 – 16-year-olds
• Game changer – Young volunteer 17 – 25-year-olds making a difference in the game.
• Unsung hero – Those heroes who impact our game and help us make cricket happen.  This could be ground staff, coaches, officials, umpires, or other volunteers.
• Growing the game – A league volunteer, committee member, or administrator going above and beyond to support clubs and help increase the number of games played.
• Lifetime achiever – That one individual who has given many years of service to your club or community group you could not do without.
• Cricket innovators – Someone who has brought new ideas and/or implemented new systems to improve your club or community group.

How Can You Nominate Someone?

You can nominate someone by clicking here to complete an online form to nominate someone. All nominations received before the 16th of August will be considered, with the county winners being put forward for the national awards. 

Player nominations should be submitted by a Club, School, Coach or Official and we ask that you please note the following information before nominating a player;

• Players currently representing Oxfordshire Boys or Girls Age Groups will automatically be invited each forthcoming year. Please click here for a summary of the 2021 Pathway Squads.

• Players who were deselected from a Pathway phase will automatically be invited back the following year to ensure that talent is recaptured. If you are unsure of an individual’s exit point, then please nominate the player.

• Players that are new to the system, have moved into the county, opted to exit the pathway or have progressed since their previous involvement within the pathway require nomination.

• To qualify for Oxfordshire a player must ordinarily either have been born in Oxfordshire, live in Oxfordshire, play club cricket in Oxfordshire, go to school in Oxfordshire or have represented Oxfordshire at County Age Group level the previous programme year.

• Nominated Girls must be born between 01/09/2003 and 31/08/2013 and nominated Boys between 01/09/2003 and 31/08/2013.

Please submit one response for each player you are nominating using the online form provided. All nominations MUST be received by Sunday 15th August 2021. We ask that you provide accurate information and that you obtain consent to share player, parent or guardian information before submitting. Please click here to NOMINATE A PAYER

Should you have any questions regarding the nominations process please contact Performance Cricket Coordinator, Alex Westbury on [email protected] or Performance Cricket Manager, Matthew Barnes on [email protected]