Shanan Stewart – Retirement

Canterbury Country Cricket Association would like to formally recognise the retirement of Shanan Stewart from Cricket.

Shanan enjoyed a successful professional career which included over 200 matches for Canterbury and 4 ODIs for the BLACKCAPS.

Upon his retirement from professional cricket he became player-coach of the country senior rep side in the 2014/15 season. During his first season as coach the senior rep team won the Hawke Cup in Palmerston North, taking it off Manawatu’s hands.

Off the back of Shanan being highly regarded amongst the cricketing community Canterbury Country was able to build a highly attractive representative programme which has included matches vs Otago ‘A’, Central Districts ‘A’ and Auckland ‘A’ along with the usual Hawke Cup fixtures.

This programme as well as his quality coaching led to several young country men becoming professional players while Shanan was coach. Henry Nicholls, Jack Boyle, Jeremy Benton, Harry Chamberlain, Henry Shipley, Kyle Jamieson and Will Williams to name a few all playing for Canterbury or higher.

At the end of the 16/17 season, Shanan took a step back from being coach of the senior rep team and remained in the team as a senior player. Even though he was no longer coach, he was a valuable role model for younger players in the Canterbury Country team to aspire to.

Shanan’s attitude, work ethic and commitment to the team was second to none throughout his time with Canterbury Country. Add to this his gritty ‘no-fuss’ nature as well as his high-quality batting and bowling made him an invaluable member of the Country set up.

In his last season he produced arguably his highest quality innings for the Association in the Hawke Cup victory over Hamilton. He scored 113 in Country’s first innings. The next highest score in the match by any other batsmen was 55. His knock ascended Country into a strong position, from which they secured an outright win and the Hawke Cup.

Shanan finished his career with 3,321 runs at an average of 56.2 as well as 53 wickets at an average of 16.1.

From everyone involved with the Association we thank Shanan for his invaluable contributions and wish him all the best with his future endeavours.

Article added: Monday 23 March 2020