South Africa’s star cricket player AB DE Villiers seems to have dominated the Cricket South Africa Awards banquet by bagging four top awards at the ceremony which includes the most precious of all the ‘ Cricketer of the Year 2014’ award here on Wednesday evening.Other awards which Villiers won was the ‘Test Cricketer of the year’ as recognized by his peers as SA players ‘Player of the Year’ and by popular vote of the public, SA fans ‘Cricketer of the year’.
The only award for which De Villiers was nominated and did not won was the ODI Player of the year which was awarded to Quinton de Kock, who managed to score four centuries in the period under review including three consecutive innings.
Other famous SA players which were awarded are Imran Tahir who was named the T20 International player of the year, Paceman Dale Steyn won the Delivery of the year and veteran Kallis won the KFC’s ‘So Good’ Award for his century in his final test match appearance against India. Marizanne Kapp was named Momentum Women’s Cricketer of the year for the second successive year.
“This has been another great year of wonderful achievements for our top players” – says CSA chief executive Haroon Lorgat.
Thus we congratulate all the Top players of South African team for winning such precious awards!
– By Burhan Fatehi
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