Cavaliers' skipper Matt Corben has been named the 2019-20 BOIDC player of the year after a sensational campaign with the bat and the gloves.
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The season followed an award-winning 2018-19 in the ODCA before the Bathurst and Orange districts rejoined.
The 24-year-old registered an average of 72 with bat in hand and took 13 catches from behind the stumps in the field in 2019-20.
Although the accolade is one he appreciates, Corben wouldn't hesitate to trade it off for a major semi-finals win against Orange City, a heartbreaking, three-run loss that wound up being the side's virtual grand final after the season was abandoned due to COVID-19 restrictions.
"I'd trade my two trophies in for a premiership... that's for sure," Corben said.
"Obviously it's nice to be recognised in that kind of way, though."
"There's some big names on that trophy... some really good cricketers there. It's pretty awesome"
When you win a pair of MVP awards in back-to-back seasons, it's only natural to put each campaign alongside each other to try to figure out which year was better.
Corben couldn't definitively say which was a better year performance-wise, but highlighted a significant difference between this summer of cricket and the one before it.
"It was tricky being all two-day cricket this year," he said.
"It was a really different season in the sense that you'd sometimes go three or four weeks where you don't bat or don't keep.
"Getting rhythm in the back half of the season was tricky for me... especially with washouts.
"I was pretty consistent both years but I can't really say I played the house down this season because in the second half of the year I didn't perform how I wanted to.
"It was good to have boys step up in the back half of the year when I wasn't batting like I would have liked to."
All good skippers are quick to deflect praise onto their teammates and in addition to tipping his cap to the entire minor premiership-winning roster, Corben handed out a pair of team MVP awards of his own.
"Mitch Black had an amazing season again, he's bowled the house down two years in-a-row now and after he got selected for Western Wranglers he bowled really well for them too," he said.
"Bailey Ferguson stepped up again this year when we needed him.
"His performance in the major semi final deserves a lot more credit than it was given.
"A lot of guys in our team definitely could have grabbed this award."
The dust has well and truly cleared from that devastating Sunday afternoon at Wade Park but in reflecting on the match, Corben said there was a unanimous bittersweet feeling in the dressing sheds.
"We were all pretty gutted after losing the match but there were definitely positives to come out of that game," he said.
"If we just performed a little bit better we would have won that game and we were definitely backing ourselves if we did get a shot in the grand final."
As for the decision to award the Warriors BOIDC champions, Corben had no issues.
"That was outlined before the season that the major semi-final winner would be the champion," he said.
"It makes sense but it's still hard to lose a premiership that way.
All wicketkeepers pride themselves on their glovework and even though Corben tallied 13 catches through 10 games this season, his weight of runs with the bat in-hand pleased him more.
"The way I started the season kind of set the tone and put us ahead in a lot of games," he said.
"It's good that I'm a batter-keeper so if one fails I can kind of do the other one."