A YEAR after winning the Sir Leonard Hutton Trophy for outstanding service to the JCT600 Bradford League, Keighley Cricket Club's Keith Robinson has picked up another major award at the league's annual dinner at the Cedar Court Hotel.

However, this time he has had to share the JCT600 Unsung Hero award with his wife Lesley and their youngest son Richard.

Keith and Lesley have just retired from active duty at the Lawkholme Lane club after many years of devoted service, while Richard, as well as being the leading run-scorer in the league with 14, 471, also prepared the wickets for the successful Sovereign Health Care Priestley Cup and Priestley Shield wickets this season.

"We have been rewarded for doing something that we have loved for over 50 years and now hope that we can enjoy our retirement by going around the grounds meeting the many friends that we have made in that time," said Keith, who is 80 next summer.

"I also hope that Richard carries on playing and gets up to 20,000 runs before we say goodbye."

Then, with a twinkle in his eye, he added: "I am going for the hat-trick next year. I am coming out of retirement to get the batting prize!"

Lesley said: "I think it is lovely that we have been honoured. I didn't know anything about it. We just came because we thought that Richard was getting something – you have to remember that we have a dog at home and it is Halloween."

Richard's dedication to getting things right even extended to sleeping at Keighley Cricket Club overnight to ensure that the ground was in the best condition possible for the Sovereign Health Care Priestley Shield final between Hanging Heaton and Pudsey St Lawrence, where he also chose the man of the match winner.

Windhill's Colin Gatenby was this year's winner of the Sir Leonard Hutton Trophy for over 40 years' service to the Busy Lane club as committee member, cricket secretary, groundsman and scorer, as well as being part of the Bradford Cricket League's executive committee for a number of years.

Mark Robertshaw (Pudsey St Lawrence) was the players' player of the year, Windhill won the Albert Smith Spirit of Cricket award, and Brighouse lifted the Tom Mathers Most Improved Ground award, while Undercliffe's Amir Hussain was the Gordon Bowers Young Cricketer of the year and the Ernest Lodge Young Spin Bowler of the Year.

Keighley won two other awards – Jonathan Wilkinson for the Parkside Trophy for Division Two wicket-keeping's most victims and Richard Wood the G Palfreyman Wicketkeeping Trophy for most second team victims.