Rising cricket star Angus Jemmett. Photo supplied.Within the pile of nominations received each year for the Mid Canterbury Sports Awards, there are countless incredible achievements recorded.

There are those which turned a sporting fixture on its head and led to success, then there are those individual performances which shone in a vast array of circumstances.

That one single achievement might not be enough to get someone over the line for one of the major prizes of the awards, but it is enough to see them worthy of recognition for their efforts.

The Mid Canterbury Sporting Moment of the Year is this year being awarded for the second time, and the 2020 recipient fits the bill perfectly.

A story of a 16-year-old making his debut in one of New Zealand’s most prolific sporting trophies, the Hawke Cup, is significant within itself but for Mid Canterbury cricketer, Angus Jemmett it goes so much further.

Despite his age and lack of experience playing at the most elite of levels in regional cricket in this country, Jemmett made the moment his own.

Opening for Mid Canterbury and facing a talented and experienced Otago Country bowling attack, Jemmett kept his eye on the prize, playing beyond his years and notched an impressive century on debut to put his side in a strong position at the end of the first innings.

And it was that effort, against so many odds that makes Jemmett a worthy recipient of Mid Canterbury’s Sporting Moment of the Year.

© The Ashburton Guardian - 12 June 2020