They're on the ball for a good cause: Left to right, tournament participants Lesley Knight, Caroline Clarke, Jess Knight, Shaun D'Oliveira, Sarah Keyte, Tracey Weston and Roger Weston. Photograph taken by Simon Rogers. 19384901
A CRICKET tournament held in memory of a Worcester man who died of cancer has been hailed a great success by organisers.
More than 100 people attended the Bank Holiday Monday event in aid of Noah's Ark Trust - the Worcester-based bereavement charity.
Eight cricket teams took part in the Super Eight's Tournament at the Gordon Jones Memorial Ground in Norton, near Worcester. Keen cricketer Phil Knight was an experienced bowler and had won the award of Worcester News cricketer of the week a year before he died aged 39 in August 2004.
The winning team from the tournament, which organisers hope will become an annual event, were presented with the Phil Knight Memorial Super Eight's trophy, which was donated by his wife Lesley and daughter Jess.
The money raised, which is still being counted, will be donated to the charity's Towards a Brighter Future appeal, which was launched by your Worcester News earlier this year to find the charity a new Worcester base. Friend Sarah Keyte, who organised the event, said: "It's been a great day and there is a great atmosphere." Mrs Knight said her husband would have been proud. "It's a wonderful memorial for Phil and this would have been what he would have loved to have done and he would have thoroughly enjoyed it," she said.
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