Lymington stalwart Tony Wharton has been awarded a life-time achievement award at the NatWest Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards (OSCA) at the Ageas Bowl.
Tony, who has spent 30 years tirelessly working to improve cricket through the New Forest and particular his former clubs Langley Manor and New Milton and current club Lymington, received 41 per cent of the votes to attain the award ahead of Ray Holyer [Hampshire Association of Cricket Officials] and long serving Hursley Park cricketer and groundman Chris Westbrook.
Over and above his sterling work at Lymington, where he is treasurer and frequently first team scorer, Tony has been an ever present helping and coaching young cricketers. He was made a life member of the club in 2014. He has been treasurer of the Southern League and is president and former chairman of the South Hants Indoor Cricket League at Eastleigh.
A carefree and cavalier opening batsman (and dibley dobley bowler) in his playing days, Tony Wharton has played cricket worldwide and once scored a century at Ventura on the Bournemouth & South Hampshire tour to California in 1989. He is pictured in his prime chilling out after a long bowling stint at the Isolation Cavaliers ground in the West Indies, where he once worked and grew bananas.
Tony, who has spent 30 years tirelessly working to improve cricket through the New Forest and particular his former clubs Langley Manor and New Milton and current club Lymington, received 41 per cent of the votes to attain the award ahead of Ray Holyer [Hampshire Association of Cricket Officials] and long serving Hursley Park cricketer and groundman Chris Westbrook.
Over and above his sterling work at Lymington, where he is treasurer and frequently first team scorer, Tony has been an ever present helping and coaching young cricketers. He was made a life member of the club in 2014. He has been treasurer of the Southern League and is president and former chairman of the South Hants Indoor Cricket League at Eastleigh.
A carefree and cavalier opening batsman (and dibley dobley bowler) in his playing days, Tony Wharton has played cricket worldwide and once scored a century at Ventura on the Bournemouth & South Hampshire tour to California in 1989. He is pictured in his prime chilling out after a long bowling stint at the Isolation Cavaliers ground in the West Indies, where he once worked and grew bananas.
