Lions cricket to host annual awards

Lions Head of marketing, commercial, and communication Wanele Mngomezulu, has confirmed that the club will reward their stars in the upcoming annual Awards.

The Lions cricket will host their award ceremony on the 28th of May at Time Square Arena in Menlyn, Pretoria under the theme- œPride of Jozi Awards.

To kick start the celebrations they will host the Imperial Lions Annual Golf Day on 19 May at the Country Club Johannesburg Woodmead, with the men™s and women™s cricket teams.

The list of nominees for the men™s and women™s awards was released on Friday. Mngomezulu excitedly said they will be celebrating all what the season has been to them.

œWe really celebrating the season that was,(and) we seeking to celebrate diversity, inclusivity and gender in all the stripes we™ve made as the union in terms of the on-field as well as the off-field perspective said the excited Mngomezulu

The Lions won the One Day trophy and finished second on the log in the domestic season behind the rivals Titans. They supported the gender-based violence campaign and the fight against breast cancer.

œas a union we looked at what is it that we can do which are the trophies-obviously we wanted to win all the trophies but beyond the trophies we wanted to contribute in society in general so say from CSA perspective what can we do on gender base violence, food poverty and other initiative like breast cancer.

œSo yes we won the one-day trophy, came second on the log but changing lives, seeing people you know in terms of the hampers we donated over 4-million, gender based violence campaign that we ran with CSA, the pink day campaign and that™s what we seek to celebrate for the season as well Mngozmezulu concluded.

The venue can take up to 4000 people, and the fans are invited to buy the tickets and come to support their stars being recognized.

The tickets are available on sale.

The Johannesburg based Franchise has thanked their fans for supporting them through the Covid-19 pandemic and wants to celebrate the awards with them.

By Charles Baloyi