Numan Shabbir Syed Award for Services to Black Minority Ethnic Cricket.
Milton Samuels is a great gentleman with a passion for junior cricket development that borders on unbelievable. His work, not only for his club, but BME work in Sheffield in general has been outstanding. The time, support and guidance Milton has given the cricket community, along with his quality coaching and leadership skills, have fostered a strong Sheffield Caribbean CC (SCCC) junior team, on the back of his amazing work.
He has spent 50 years at the club and started coaching/managing aged 18 - making it over 45 years of coaching so far. He is the real backbone of the club. Three years ago SCCC didn’t have a junior team. Sam put a lot of hard work in with the Sheffield BME Centre and ended up putting an U15s into the League for 2017 and beyond before his U18 team won the Ben Jessop League in 2018.
Milton has delivered on the Sheffield BME Centre, and provided great exit routes for children and young people, whilst helping to keep the club junior teams going. He has coached at club level, run junior sides and been to go-to guy in every sense when new coaches in the area are looking for advice and guidance, always willing to help and go the extra mile for people.
The relationship he has with parents is amazing. Everyone respects him so much and always speaks very highly of him everywhere you go. Milton always has a great smile on his face, has fun and makes the cricket matches more than just a match, by building relationships and creating lifelong friends through his mentoring and guidance.
Milton is someone every club needs and a very deserving OSCA winner.