Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent, the schoolgirl cricketer, was presented with the first Award to the Memory of C.A. Ollivierre at the end of the game between an MCC Invitation XI and the Australian Women tourists at Southgate on Monday.

The Award arose from last summer's service at St Martin-in-the-Fields, organised by writer Clayton Goodwin and sponsored by BWIA West Indian Airways - to mark the 100th Anniversary of the first West Indian cricket tour to England when it was decided to donate the collection taken as an Award to the Memory of pioneer cricketer C.A. Ollivierre to a modern "pioneer" of West Indian cricket in England.

Rudolph Walker, the actor, presented the inscribed cup to Ebony and Jasmine Baksh, Manager of the St Vincent & the Grenadines Tourist Board, handed over the voucher for equipment and travel expenses. (Ollivierre was Vincentian).

The citation stated that Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent had been selected because of "her contribution to the enhanced profile of youth participation in women's cricket, of youth cricket in the inner-city, and of West Indian heritage players within the national structure of English cricket, and, above all, her philosophy that 'cricket is fun'" It is intended that the award shall henceforth be annual.

© Clayton Goodwin