Flea top achiever of the year
January 3, 2011
2010
For the top local sporting identity of 2010 it’s hard to look past Colts’ blaster Craig ‘Flea’ Haworth.
WHEN the pressure is on, the best in their trade always rise to the occasion. And that’s why your scribbler has decided to deliver the biggest sporting bouquet of 2010 to the crew from Park Beach Bowling Club Colts, following their capture of the Coffs Harbour District Cricket Association premiership after being disappointed so many times before. Eventually, the planets aligned and while certain sections of the community regard cricket as boring, the final encounter with Diggers Ex-Services was as dramatic and intense as an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.
When Matt Francis did the jig after sending a loose one to the boundary, everybody thought it was all over-red rover, until head Digger, Steve Meakins, pointed to the middle and said: “We’ll have another hit, thanks umpire.”
To cut a long story short, stumps were eventually pulled, team songs were sung and copious amounts of pale amber were consumed by both teams to celebrate the occasion.
Hero of the hour may have been Chris “Mr Cricket” Moran, who capped a stellar 35-year playing career by leading the victory parade, but one can’t go past the massive contribution of “Flea” Haworth, as the number one totally local sporting achiever of the year.
His even hundred in the final put Colts into the big dance and that last knock of 70 iced the cake.
One hopes he gets tired of living in Adelaide and hurries home to bat and bowl another day.
As seen in the Coffs coast Advocate
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