If there was an official award for 'First Division Player of the Year' in the Pembrokeshire County Cricket League, which is sponsored by the Thomas Carroll Group, then the undoubted winner for the recent 2019 campaign would be Carew's talented all-rounder Tom Davies.
 
Because Tom featured highly with bat and ball in the 'Top Twenty' lists so carefully compiled by county club chairman Paul Webb and his wife Janice (where he came first in the batting and was second behind Andrew Miller (Neyland) in the bowling stakes.
 
"I would like to thank everyone at the clubs, especially the likes of Jayne Cole (Haverfordwest) and Wendy Bradshaw (St Ishmaels) who helped us with details,"  Paul told us, " and on the topic of thanks I must readily admit that Janice does the bulk of the work whilst I act as the figurehead - and she does a brilliant job!"
 

Huge run totals for Tom and Dan

 
In the batting stakes Tom Davies amassed a huge 936 runs in 18 league matches with nine 50s and one century and was joined on that impressive tally by Dan Sutton (Cresselly), who had two 'tons' and four half centuries.

"But as usual if players tied we went for the better average," explained Paul,” with Tom's 62.4 just beating Dan's 58.5."
 
Third, with 927 runs, was Simon Holliday (Haverfordwest) but he will surely argue that he was only nine runs behind and played two games fewer because of injury - but it's all about fitness with youngsters these days Doc!
 
Nick Koomen came fourth with 802 runs but then there was a large gap of 226 runs before the rest, who all can be very proud to be in the top twenty in this list, where there were 19 centuries, eight of them shared by Messrs Sutton and Holliday. Coincidentally, there were also 67 half centuries, with Will Beresford (Llangwm) the only one to miss out on both but still scoring enough to feature - so concentrate a bit harder next year Will!
 
On the team front Lawrenny, Cresselly, Whitland and Saundersfoot also had three apiece in the list, with two each for champions Neyland and Llangwm, with only one each for Carew, Haverfordwest, St Ishmaels and Burton.
 

‘Windy’ is top bowler – again!

 
On the bowling list it is no surprise that Andrew ‘Windy’ Miller leads the way again because the Neyland all-rounder grabbed 47 wickets with his canny slow stuff and bamboozled opposing batsmen, as he has done so many years. It is a tribute to his mental strength and consistency, with Tom Davies just four behind with his pace bowling and Andrew Pawlett (St Ishmaels) three behind him with his slow left-arm bowling always causing problems.
 
Pawlett also had the best figures as he picked up 7 for 20, closely followed by another spinner in Morgan Scale (Burton) with fine figures of 7 for 39 – and then Davies and Clive Tucker (Haverfordwest) both with 6 for 15 hauls.
 
Team-wise Lawrenny caught the eye with three bowlers in the top nine as Neyland and Tish were the only other teams to claim three places. There were two each for Tish, Saundersfoot, Haverfordwest, Burton and Cresselly, whilst Carew, Llangwm and Whitland had just one per club.



 

And finally . . .

Looking at the all-rounder stats, Tom Davies was amazing with Simon Holliday next having claimed 11^th spot in the bowling as well as his third place batting – and the others to feature were Nick Cope (Saundersfoot) and Matthew Davies (Whitland).
 
So well done to all the players involved, some for the first time and others as resident members of the stats – and an especial thank you to Paul and Janice for their yeoman work!








 

2019 Batting averages

 

Name	Club	Runs	Innings	N/0s	H/S	50s	100s	Average
Tom Davies	Carew	936	18	3	102*	9	1	62.4
Dan Sutton	Cresselly	936	18	2	139	2	4	58.5
Simon Holliday	Haverfordwest	927	15	4	127	4	4	84.27
Nick Koomen	Neyland	802	18	7	127*	7	1	72.9
Harry Thomas	Lawrenny	574	16	3	109*	3	2	44.15
Joseph Kiff	Llangwm	569	15	0	106	5	1	37.91
Phil Williams	Cresselly	559	12	1	116	5	1	50.81
Nick Cope	Saundersfoot	540	17	0	119	4	0	31.76
Phil Cockburn	St Ishmaels	513	16	1	89	4	1	30.17
Geraint Jones	Whitland	488	16	0	150	1	1	30.5
Patrick Bellerby	Neyland	478	14	2	107*	2	1	39.83
Matthew Davies	Whitland	459	18	5	62*	2	0	35.3
Toby Hayman	Burton	448	15	0	77	3	0	30.6
Simon Cole	Cresselly	441	15	1	76	3	0	31.5
Will Beresford	Llangwm	438	15	1	48	0	0	31.28
Steve Lewis	Lawrenny	430	14	1	83	4	0	33.07
John Mansbridge	Saundersfoot	420	16	1	75	4	0	28.01
Danny Caine	Saundersfoot	415	11	1	107	0	2	41.5
Kurtis Marsh	Lawrenny	403	12	4	81*	3	0	5.37
Johnny Thomas	Whitland	395	13	2	79	2	0	35.9

2019 Bowling averages 

Name	Club	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	B/Perf
Andrew Miller	Neyland	176.4	20		47	12.36	5 for 13
Tom Davies	Carew	202.1	45	569	43	13.23	6 for 15
Andrew Pawlett	St Ishmaels	199.3	21	869	40	21.72	7 for 21
Brennan Devonald	St Ishmaels	200.3	35	658	35	18.81	5 for 34
Nick Cope	Saundersfoot	174.2	21	742	34	21.82	4 for 41
Brad McDermott-Jenkins	Lawrenny	110.1	15	466	34	13.71	6 for 41
Rob Williams	Lawrenny	179.1	39	491	30	16.36	4 for 21
Clive Tucker	Haverfordwest	116.3	13	467	27	17.29	6 for 15
Ryan Morton	Lawrenny	128.4	17	458	27	16.96	4 for 32
Luke Hayman	Burton	94.3	6	545	25	21.81	6 for 29
Simon Holliday	Haverfordwest	132.5	14	520	25	20.81	5 for 37
Tom Pritchard	Neyland	64.5	10	254	25	10.16	6 for 25
Sam Franklyn	Saundersfoot	136.5	26	592	25	23.68	4 for 56
Morgan Scale	Burton	149	16	648	23	28.17	7 for 39
Tom Arthur	Cresselly	161	19	782	22	35.54	3 for 96
Ryan Lewis	Cresselly	146.4	27	535	22	24.31	5 for 25
Andrew Williams	St Ishmaels	88.1	11	357	21	17.01	4 for 26
Henry Durrant	Neyland	137.5	35	382	21	18.19	5 for 40
Matthew Whitland	Whitland	161.1	20	762	20	38.11	3 for 28
Ollie Davies	Llangwm	99.2	9	515	20	25.75	4 for 22