Micky went on to represent Whanganui Collegiate School, captaining the cricket First XI as well as playing rugby and hockey for the school.<\/p>\n
Aidan O\u2019Connor, CD Cricket manager, community and capability, said Micky was an exceptional person. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have received the blessing of Micky\u2019s family, Marcus, Georgie, Hana and Jimmy, to bestow this fitting honour upon him and have his name adorn our MVP medal.\u201d<\/p>\n
His father, Marcus, will present the inaugural medal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
His mother, Georgie, said the family was overwhelmed by the honour.<\/p>\n
\u201cMicky was a natural leader and player who always thought of others and how he could bring out their best, while going about doing his best for them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a quiet strength, always encouraged others and embodied the spirit of the game \u2013 and his teammates loved that about him, as did we.”<\/p>\n
Cricket had been Micky\u2019s number one sport from a young age.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe loved playing, he loved watching it, talking about it, thinking about it \u2013 it was his passion.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarcus and I know he would be very proud, in his humble manner, of this honour in his memory, and we are so proud of him as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Micky was also a passionate Warriors fan, and the NRL club named one of their training grounds after him in 2024.<\/p>\n
Whanganui Collegiate, Palmerston North Boys\u2019 High School, Nelson College and Lindisfarne College are all competing in the two-day cricket tournament in Levin, with the winning side earning a spot at next summer\u2019s national First XI Boys\u2019 Cup Finals in Lincoln.<\/p>\n
After the CD Cricket First XI Boys\u2019 Cup, it\u2019s the turn of the region\u2019s top secondary schoolgirl cricketers to shine in the QBE First XI Cup that starts on Wednesday, also at Levin\u2019s Donnelly Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Micky went on to represent Whanganui Collegiate School, captaining the cricket First XI as well as playing rugby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,2346,5837,1561,1558,1596,2534,66405,6179,1976,78,26019,6805,183103,111,139,69,1118,411,213,3010,15142,102,4741],"class_list":["post-343266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-award","tag-battle","tag-bay","tag-been","tag-brain","tag-cancer","tag-cricketer","tag-died","tag-hawkes","tag-in","tag-medal","tag-memory","tag-micky","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-peacock","tag-sports","tag-top","tag-unveiled","tag-with","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}