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Marcus Trescothick
Marcus Trescothick is one of two players to have won the award three times.

The Reg Hayter Cup for the NatWest PCA Player of the Year is an annual cricket award. It is presented to the player who is adjudged to have been the best of the year in English county cricket.[1] The award has been given since the 1970 season and the winner is chosen by a vote amongst the members of the players' trade union, the Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA).[2] With the exception of the first year, when a joint award was made, the award has been bestowed upon one individual each season. The winning player is awarded the Reg Hayter Cup, named after a sports journalist who was also a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, a Lord's Taverner, and a life-member of Surrey County Cricket Club.[3] The award is well regarded by its recipients; the 2014 winner, Adam Lyth exemplified this by claiming that "it's a very proud moment to be voted for by your peers who you’ve played against all year."[4]

The award was first presented in 1970, when Mike Proctor of Gloucestershire and Jack Bond of Lancashire were joint winners. Seven players have won the award more than once, but only Sir Richard Hadlee (1981, 1984 and 1987) and Marcus Trescothick (2000, 2009 and 2011) have won been named Player of the Year on three occasions. Two players, Andrew Flintoff and John Lever, have won the award in consecutive years. Representatives of all eighteen first-class cricket counties have won the award. Gloucestershire players have collected the award most frequently, doing so on six occasions, while four of the counties (Derbyshire, Glamorgan, Leicestershire and Sussex) have only had one winner.

On nineteen occasions, the PCA Player of the Year has also been named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for that season, and in 2005 Flintoff won the PCA award in the same year as being voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year. The Cricket Writers' Club County Championship Player of the Year was introduced in 2012, and two of the three winners of that award have been the PCA Player of the Year at the same time.[5]

Winners

Year Player Nationality Club Other awards that year[a]
1970 Mike Procter  South Africa Gloucestershire
Jack Bond  England Lancashire Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1971 Lance Gibbs  West Indies Warwickshire Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1972 Andy Roberts  West Indies Hampshire
1973 Peter Lee  England Lancashire
1974 Barry Stead  England Nottinghamshire
1975 Zaheer Abbas  Pakistan Gloucestershire
1976 Peter Lee  England Lancashire
1977 Mike Procter  South Africa Gloucestershire
1978 John Lever  England Essex Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1979 John Lever  England Essex
1980 Robin Jackman  England Surrey Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1981 Richard Hadlee  New Zealand Nottinghamshire Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1982 Malcolm Marshall  West Indies Hampshire Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1983 Ken McEwan  South Africa Essex
1984 Richard Hadlee  New Zealand Nottinghamshire
1985 Neal Radford  England Worcestershire Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1986 Courtney Walsh  West Indies Gloucestershire Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1987 Richard Hadlee  New Zealand Nottinghamshire
1988 Graeme Hick  England Worcestershire
1989 Jimmy Cook  South Africa Somerset Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1990 Graham Gooch  England Essex
1991 Waqar Younis  Pakistan Surrey Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1992 Courtney Walsh  West Indies Gloucestershire
1993 Steve Watkin  England Gloucestershire Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1994 Brian Lara  West Indies Warwickshire Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1995 Dominic Cork  England Derbyshire Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1996 Phil Simmons  West Indies Leicestershire Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
1997 Steve James  England Glamorgan
1998 Mal Loye  England Northamptonshire
1999 Stuart Law  Australia Essex
2000 Marcus Trescothick  England Somerset
2001 David Fulton  England Kent
2002 Michael Vaughan  England Yorkshire Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
2003 Mushtaq Ahmed  Pakistan Sussex
2004 Andrew Flintoff  England Lancashire
2005 Andrew Flintoff  England Lancashire BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award[7]
2006 Mark Ramprakash  England Surrey Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
2007 Ottis Gibson  West Indies Durham Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
2008 Martin van Jaarsveld  South Africa Kent
2009 Marcus Trescothick  England Somerset
2010 Neil Carter  South Africa Warwickshire
2011 Marcus Trescothick  England Somerset
2012 Nick Compton  England Somerset Cricket Writers' Club County Championship Player of the Year,[5]
Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
2013 Moeen Ali  England Worcestershire
2014 Adam Lyth  England Yorkshire Cricket Writers' Club County Championship Player of the Year,[5]
Wisden Cricketer of the Year[6]
2015 Chris Rushworth  England Durham
2016 Ben Duckett  England Northamptonshire Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year,
PCA Young Player of the Year
2017 Samit Patel  England Nottinghamshire
2018 Joe Denly  England Kent

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Note that Wisden Cricketers of the Year are awarded for the previous year. For the purposes of this list, being named PCA Player of the Year in 1970 is equivalent to being named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1971.

References

General

  • "PCA Player of the Year". Professional Cricketers' Association. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

Specific

  1. ^ "Carter claims top PCA prize". England and Wales Cricket Board. 23 September 2010. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "Media advisory: cricket awards". Sports Journalists' Association. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ Sewell, Arthur (21 March 1994). "Obituary: Reg Hayter". The Independent. London: Independent Print Limited. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Lyth and Lees scoop top PCA awards". England and Wales Cricket Board. 2 October 2014. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ a b c "Cricket Writers' Club Awards". Cricket Writers' Club. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Culf, Andrew (12 December 2005). "Ashes hero Flintoff voted Sports Personality of the Year". The Guardian. London: Guardian Media Group. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)


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