Retired Whanganui accountant Michael Sewell has been rewarded for going into bat for Central Districts Cricket over many years.
Sewell was one of six new life members of the Central Districts Cricket Association inducted at the 2019 70th Annual General Meeting in Napier earlier this month.
Sewell's association with CD Cricket began in 1961 and when he went on to contribute across the field for the advancement of the CD game, including as a member of New Zealand Cricket's Hood Report committee that reviewed, revolutionised and brought the game forward nationally in the mid-1990s.
A former president and patron of Cricket Wanganui, Sewell represented Whanganui at Hawke Cup level between 1964/65 and 1966/67 as a right-arm off-break spinner.
Appointed as a trustee of the Central Districts Cricket Charitable Trust in 1990 and chairing the trust from 1993, he stepped up to serve as CDCA president in 2014 and has provided innumerable hours of service behind the scenes in the field of governance.