Honour for cricket coaches

Shropshire’s Neil Bradshaw and Jonathan Caldicott with the Midlands Coach of the Year awardsThe two coaches who took Shropshire’s disabled cricket team to a national final have landed a prestigious Midlands award.

Jonathan Caldecott, of Market Drayton, and Oswestry-based Neil Bradshaw shared the Coach of the Year category at the npower Disability Sports Awards at Villa Park on Thursday.

The pair have been in charge of the Shropshire team for four years and led them to the national final at Hampshire’s Rose Bowl last year.

“It was a big, big shock but a massive honour,” said Bradshaw. “We were up against some really fantastic coaches and it was fantastic just to be nominated in the same category as them.

“To win it was unbelievable. The likes of Doug Ellis (Aston Villa chairman) and Sir Trevor Brooking were at the awards so it was great to be in that type of company.”

It was the second major award scooped by Caldecott and Bradshaw who clinched the Coach of the Year title and the Shropshire Star sponsored Outstanding Contribution Award at the inaugural Shropshire Energise awards at Shrewsbury Town’s Oteley Road ground in November

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This article was posted on April 19, 2008 at 11:50 am.
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4 Comments

  1. lawrence said: Apr 21st, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    well done ur space hopping training has paid off

  2. A Dragon said: Apr 21st, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    Well done chaps. Very much deserved

  3. richard davies said: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 am

    well done Jon… still remember the day when smashed your bowling around market drayton 150* - stick to the coaching as great at it!!

  4. dinesh de silva said: Jun 8th, 2008 at 9:46 am

    well done chaps keep it up u r excellent work…cheers

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