(Cricket news) Toby Morrell is included in the King’s Birthday Honours List for his outstanding contribution to Western Australian blind cricket and his involvement at a community level. Morrell has been coaching the WA Blind Team since 2019 and was a committee member of Blind Sports Western Australia before that. 

Toby Morrell is a life member of Quinns Rocks Junior Club and was very supportive and active in building girls’ cricket and inclusion programs at the Club, considering his work and offering towards community-level cricket, he was named the WA Cricket Male Volunteer of the Year in 2019.

The 45-year-old is also a passionate and diligent enthusiast at the local level cricket and trained many individuals and guided them in the right direction ahead in this field, Morrell also has a 15-year relationship with Quinns Rocks Junior Cricket Club where he held the Director of Coaching position until 2022.

Toby Morrell’s enthusiasm and commitment towards the game made him go along with his passion and help others to follow their passion and achieve what they always wanted. He is currently Head of Female Cricket at Wanneroo District Cricket Club.

Morrell is awarded Medal Of Order of Australia (OAM) this month and was considered in King’s Birthday Honour list for his great contribution towards Australia’s domestic level, being a coach of the Western Australia blind cricket team and along with promoting the girls’ programs for playing and indulging themselves in the sport and improving the young players for many years now. Morrell hopes his honour reminds volunteers that the work they do is worthwhile.

“I had to read the email twice when I first got the nomination, I’m still wrapping my head around it, I have been fortunate enough to be nominated, but there are a lot of people out there who give as much time and don’t receive that recognition. It’s not so much about the recognition, it’s more about giving back to the community and giving people a place to feel safe and enjoy their sport, Morrell said his passion for girls and their inclusion in the game came from wanting everyone to feel a sense of belonging”. 

 “We had a few girls playing at junior level but they had nowhere to go from there so I said why can’t we create a girl’s program? We did a lot of work and managed to get the program up and Quinns Rocks has been a driving force for female cricket since then, especially in the northern suburbs.

Then a few years ago, I saw a Cricket Australia ad that said sport for all, so I spent two years researching how to run a program for disabilities and then we were able to get it up and running. Morrell said”. “I love seeing the kids get an opportunity to have a sense of belonging, and parents having the opportunity to see their kids play a game and be involved in a sporting club”, He added.

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