Akeel Mo­hammed and Resh­mi De­o­jit won the top male and fe­male crick­eter of the year awards yes­ter­day, when the Pow­er­gen Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League held its award cer­e­mo­ny en­ti­tled Cel­e­brat­ing Achieve­ment at the Cou­va/Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce, Cou­va.Both Mo­hammed and De­o­jit guid­ed their schools to ti­tles this sea­son. Mo­hammed's AS­JA Boys' Col­lege won the cham­pi­onship di­vi­sion ti­tle, while De­o­jit was part of the Ce­dros Sec­ondary team which won the girls open crown.

Mo­hammed scored 442 runs dur­ing the sea­son at an av­er­age of 49.10, scor­ing one cen­tu­ry and two half cen­turies. He won the play­er of the round award in round three af­ter scor­ing 189 against Preysal Sec­ondary in the league com­pe­ti­tion. Mo­hammed al­so won the play­er of the round award in the fol­low­ing round, when he struck 86 and took one wick­et against St Mary's.

In the girls T20 tour­na­ment, De­o­jit was an in­te­gral part of Ce­dros' cham­pi­onship run. Ce­dros de­feat­ed Cunu­pia High by five wick­ets on May 9 at Guaracara Park in the fi­nal.

Al­so re­ceiv­ing male crick­eter of the year awards were Jeron Mani­ram, Shaquille Mc­David, D'An­ge­lo Sanaise and Ja­son Bat­son. Sha­nia Au­gus­tus, Re­niece Boyce, Rose­marie Sama­roo and Raquel Bis­soon won fe­male crick­eter of the year awards.De­liv­er­ing the fea­ture ad­dress, William Wal­lace, man­ag­er of the se­nior na­tion­al foot­ball team en­cour­aged the young crick­eters to dream big. Wal­lace said: "You young crick­eters, those of you with a dream in your heart, you have to take risks, pos­i­tive ones. Dream be­yond the imag­in­able in or­der to achieve suc­cess be­yond the at­tain­able."He added: "Your vi­sion of your fu­ture as a crick­eter must not be con­fined in a suf­fo­cat­ing box of lim­i­ta­tions. How do move from be­ing just good to great? The good news is that the pow­er of great­ness lives with­in each of us."

Wal­lace stat­ed that in life some­times your biggest chal­lenge is your­self. "Many times your op­po­nent is nev­er re­al­ly the play­er on the oth­er side of the net, or the swim­mer in the next lane, or the team in the next dress­ing room, your op­po­nent is your­self. There would be times when you feel that life has dealt you an un­for­tu­nate hand, but ac­cept the faith and move on."

CRICK­ETERS OF THE YEAR

GIRLS

Resh­mi De­o­jit - Ce­dros Sec­ondary (Top Win­ner)

Sha­nia Au­gus­tus - Holy Faith Con­vent

Re­niece Boyce - El Do­ra­do West Sec­ondary

Rose­marie Sama­roo - Cunu­pia Sec­ondary

Raquel Bis­soon - AS­JA Col­lege, Char­lieville

BOYS

Akeel Mo­hammed - AS­JA Boys' Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do (Top Win­ner)

Jeron Mani­ram - Bar­rack­pore West Sec­ondary

Shaquille Mc­David - El Do­ra­do East Sec­ondary

D'An­ge­lo Sanaise - AS­JA Boys' Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do

Ja­son Bat­son - St Mary's Col­lege

SCHOOL OF THE YEAR - Vish­nu Boys Hin­du Col­lege

SEA­SON'S RE­SULTS

Un­der-14

1 Queen's Roy­al Col­lege

2 Vish­nu Boys' Hin­du Col­lege

Un­der-16

1 Trin­i­ty Col­lege East

2 Fa­ti­ma Col­lege

Un­der-19 Se­niors

1 Cou­va East Sec­ondary

2 East Mu­cu­rapo Sec­ondary

Girls Open

1 Ce­dros Sec­ondary

2 Cunu­pia Sec­ondary

Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion

1 AS­JA Boys' Col­lege

2 St Mary's Col­lege

Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion

1 Vish­nu Boys' Col­lege

2 Hillview Boys' Col­lege

T20 In­ter­col

1 Bar­rack­pore West Sec­ondary

2 Cara­pichaima East Sec­ondary

Se­nior T20

1 Cou­va East Sec­ondary School

2 St Bene­dict's Col­lege

Girls Hard Ball Com­pe­ti­tion

1 East Zone

2 Cen­tral Zone

Girls Hard Ball North/South Com­pe­ti­tion

1 North Zone