Harry Brook named England Player of the Year at Cricket Writers’ Club Awards | Cricket News – Canada Boosts

Harry Brook has been named England Participant of the 12 months on the 2023 Cricket Writers’ Membership Annual Awards with Nat Sciver-Brunt claiming the ladies’s award.

Batter Brook scooped the Bob Willis Trophy, which is known as after the late England seamer and Sky Sports activities analyst and which recognises the very best participant, male or feminine, throughout a 12-month interval.

Performances between October 1, 2002 and September 30, 2023 had been taken under consideration, throughout which interval Brook scored 4 a whole lot and 7 fifties in 11 Check matches, with a better of 186, as he thrived below the management of captain Ben Stokes and red-ball head coach Brendon McCullum.

The Yorkshireman was additionally a part of the England aspect that received the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia and drew The Ashes at residence this summer time, whereas his 41-ball ton for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred helped power his manner into his nation’s squad for the current 50-over World Cup in India.

Brook – the second winner of the Bob Willis Trophy, after Yorkshire and England team-mate Jonny Bairstow – mentioned: “I feel the T20 World Cup simply tops it. Popping out on high there was the one.

“To have received a World Cup, to have performed in an Ashes sequence and to have skilled a few of the issues I’ve this 12 months is a dream come true.

“It has been the most enjoyable time of my life so far to be honest. The way we’ve gone out there and tried to play our cricket has been really fun.”

Award-winning Sciver-Brunt has captaincy ambitions

England all-rounder Sciver-Brunt landed the JM Finn Girls’s Cricket Award for the second 12 months in succession, together with her back-to-back ODI a whole lot towards Australia in the course of the drawn Girls’s Ashes sequence and 66-ball ton towards Sri Lanka highlights of her summer time.

The 31-year-old – a part of England’s Check and T20I squads for December’s tour of India – says she would like to captain her nation sooner or later.

Sciver-Brunt mentioned: “Heather (Knight) has got a few years left in her I’m sure… She’s done such a great job. There’ll be big, big shoes to fill. But I would like to lead England and we’ll see how it goes.

“Whether or not it is one format at a time, I am probably not certain, nevertheless it’ll be actually, actually nice to steer England.”

Somerset wicketkeeper-batter James Rew and England quick bowler Lauren Filer had been additionally winners on the CWC Awards, with Rew named Younger Cricketer of the 12 months and Filer touchdown the Rising Cricketer of the 12 months prize.

Rew, 19, amassed 1,086 runs in LV= Insurance coverage County Championship Division One in 2023, scoring 5 a whole lot with a top-score of 221.

Filer, 22, picked up 4 wickets in her debut Check match, towards Australia in the course of the Girls’s Ashes, after which three on her one-day worldwide bow versus Sri Lanka en path to eight wickets within the three-game sequence.

Durham’s Alex Lees was named County Championship Participant of the 12 months after his 1,347 runs at a mean of 70.89 helped his aspect earn promotion.

Alfie Pyle was awarded Lord’s Taverners Incapacity Cricketer of the 12 months having lifted the Incapacity Premier League trophy with Hawks after they beat Pirates within the closing, reside on Sky Sports activities.

Sussex batter Pyle not too long ago made his debut for the England Studying Incapacity XI.