For the eighth successive year, Heritage Productions on Sunday held their Emancipation Luncheon honouring persons who have contributed to the Annual Cup Match Classic and for their individual parts in the preservation of Bermuda cultural heritage.Those were the sentiments voiced by three of HP’s prime movers, former Senator Cromwell Shakir. Kamal Best and Dr Radell Tankard. For the first time, the prestigious event was not held in the Dr.E. F. Gordon Memorial Hall of the Bermuda Industrial Union. It expanded to the Willowbank Convention Centre, and by the looks of things and this year's outstanding patronage, even more space may be need going forward.Nine former Cup Match stars were singled out for awards. Special citations went to veteran radio and television communications specialist Delano Ingham and to Ms Rhonda Simmons for being the first woman appointed to the Bermuda Cricket Board of Control and for her role as an executive officer of Somerset Cricket Club.The second oldest former Cup Match star alive, Winfield Darrell, who celebrated his 92nd birthday on May 3, was honoured Sunday. Born in 1920, he was selected as a bowler to play for St George’s in the 1941 game. It was his one and only game, but he has been one of his club's most avid supporters. In fact his family homestead was and is on the border of Wellington Oval.Winfield, a Second World War veteran, and a building contractor by trade, is the older brother of Neville Darrell, a former Cup Match captain and a superstar in his day. When illness prevented his attendance Sunday, St George’s President Neil Paynter accepted his plaque for him.Incidentedly, the oldest living former Cup Player is onetime Somerset Captain and ace wicket-keeper Woodgate Simmons.Other awardees, some of whom are pictured above were Albert Donawa, Rudolph (Buck) Simons, Charles (Skeets) Fubler, Louis (Red) DeSilva, Wendell Smith and Gladstone (Sad) Brown.