MAKINLEY BLOWS

from Premier Cricket Awards Booklet 2022-23

WELCOME TO THE 2022—2023 PREMIER CRICKET AWARDS

22 VOTES

Essendon Maribyrnong Park’s Makinley Blows has won the 2022-23 Una Paisley Medal.

The former Victorian representative has secured her 1st Una Paisley Medal by polling 22 votes, to win the Medal by 4 votes over Dandenong’s Poppy Gardner, with Dandenong all-rounder Linsey Smith and EMP’s Alyssa Humphries tied in 3rd place on 16 votes.

Blows played in 10 One Day matches across the season and finished with 433 runs @ 48.11 with a top score of 112, 10 wickets @ 16.70 (best bowling of 4/34) and 5 catches. Blows’ performances with the bat saw her finish 2nd in the leading run-scorer in the Home & Away season, whilst her leadership guided the Bombers to the Minor Premiership.

Blows polled in 6 games in total, with stand-out efforts across the One Day season being performances of 98* against Ringwood in Round 4, 112 and 1/30 against Melbourne in Round 8, 4/34 against Dandenong in Round 11 and 44 and 1/28 against Prahran in Round 14.

Blows becomes the 4th player from Essendon Maribyrnong Park to win the Una Paisley Medal, joining Jackie Lord in 1986/87, Charmaine Mason in 1995/96 and Clea Smith who won the award twice in 2002/03 and 2004/05.

Jack Ryder Medal

Congratulations Harrison Smyth 31

VOTES

Carlton batsman Harrison Smyth has won the 2022-23 Jack Ryder Medal.

Smyth polled 31 votes to win by 1 vote over fast-finishing Frankston Peninsula all-rounder James Nanopoulos, with Essendon’s 2019/20 Ryder Medalist James Seymour in 3rd on 26 votes.

Smyth played in 14 matches across the season and finished with 743 runs @ 67.55 with 2 centuries (top of 123), 5 x 50s and 4 catches.

Smyth polled votes in 9 matches across the season, with some stand-out performances being 76 vs Geelong in Round 1, 64 vs Prahran in Round 2, 70 vs Dandenong in Round 8, 57 vs Frankston Peninsula in Round 9, 110* vs Northcote in Round 10, 74* vs St Kilda in Round 13 and 123 vs Melbourne in Round 14.

Smyth becomes the seventh Blue to win the Jack Ryder Medal after Keith Stackpole (1975/76, 1977/78 & 1978/79), John Douglas (1982/83), Ian Wrigglesworth (1996/97), Abdul Qadir (1998/99), Carl Hooper (1999/2000) and Michael Allen (2005/06 – tied with St Kilda’s Graeme Rummans).