The Perry-Lewis/Kershaw Memorial Trophy

The Perry-Lewis/Kershaw Memorial Trophy

For Contribution to The Cricket Society XI

2024 Winner: David Farrington

2025 Winner: Will Halliday

The Perry-Lewis/Kershaw Award is named after two individuals. Paul Perry-Lewis played 121 games between 1967-84 and took 85 wickets. He died in the Clapham train Disaster of 1988.  John Kershaw, who was Skipper of The Society XI between 1968-74, took a then record 421 wickets, 70 catches and played 288 games.

This year we are playing catch up - we have two winners, one for 2024 and one for 2025. 

For 2024 the winner is David Farrington who opens the batting for the Society XI. In 2024 David scored 584 runs at 34.35 and was always brilliant in the field. In case there was any doubt about his capabilities, in 2025 he scored 830 runs at 55.33 including an eye-catching 142 at Ewhurst CC. David is a busy and energetic batter always looking to get the innings moving and has a wide range of strokes in his repertoire. His fielding remains top of the range.

For 2025 the winner is Will Halliday. Will topped the bowling averages achieving a miserly average of 13.19 runs per wicket and made several timely interventions with the bat, completing the season with a batting average of 31.83. He also caught everything that came his way. Both Will and David love cricket, are highly competitive, but enjoy seeing the success of their colleagues. 

They make ideal team-mates as they are always supportive, as well as being consistently successful and can be relied upon to deliver the goods pretty much without fail. They are a pleasure to have as team-mates on and off the field.

The photograph shows David (left) and Will (right) receiving their awards from John Barclay, President of The Cricket Society, at the society’s Annual Awards Lunch at the Union Jack Club, London, on Thursday, 6th November.