THEY may be young in years by comparison but the Quaid-e-Azam Sunday League reckon they can teach more established leagues a thing or two.

Their annual prize presentation attracted a record attendance of officials, players and dignitaries at the Aagrah Midpoint Restaurant in Bradford.

League secretary Basharat Hussain said: “To play at the standard that we play at is a credit to the league, and we are only 35 years old but leagues that are 100 years old are using our legislature, which proves how successful we are.

“I see young lads playing cricket, and my mind goes back 25 years to when I was a youngster.”

League champions Keighley RZM picked up three Premier Section awards – the highest batting average award (Yasar Ali, 62.14) and the lowest bowling average (Zeeshan Qasim, 7.50) and most wickets (Zeeshan Qasim, 28).

Darulshafa were relegated but still won prizes for wicket-keeping (Naik Zada, 18 victims) and the highest partnership (172 between Ayyaz Akram and Tony Cornwell), while Heaton Park matched RZM with three awards, all won by Shoukat Ali (leading all-rounder with a batting average of 52.93 and a bowling average of 9.30, the highest individual score of 125 and the most runs with 741).

Wasim Javid (Rajas) had the best figures with 7-28.

Kashmir Bradford, who just missed out on promotion from Group Two, dominated the Section A prizes with four awards.

Mirza Baig had the top individual score of 198 and the highest partnership of 264 with Mohammed Zahid, while Amer Ayub had the best analysis of 8-30.

Group One champions Rising Stars picked up two prizes – the most wickets (Parvaz Khan, 37) and the top umpire (Mohammed Jawed, with 31 points) – as did runners-up Bradford Royals (Tanvir Bashir, highest batting average of 55.50 and leading all-rounder with 55.50 batting and 14.00 bowling).

Other prizes went to Azad's Mazhir Mir (best bowling average of 7.23 and most runs with 588) and Patriots' Adil Ali with an impressive 41 victims.

Special awards went to the families of umpire Jeff Tarbatt and Nazam Khan, who both won lifetime service to cricket trophies.

The prizes were presented by former Pudsey Congs star Mohammad Azharullah, who lives in Northowram and plays for Northamptonshire.