Ben Stokes named PCA Player of the Year, Stuart Broad bags Test cricketer of the Year award
In the Professional Cricketers' Association award ceremony on Wednesday, Ben Stokes bagged the Player of the Year award after his splendid show in the ICC Cricket World Cup and the Ashes. Meanwhile, Chris Woakes and Stuart Broad were also named the ODI and Test player of the year respectively.
The English allrounder had contest in the form of Ryan Higgins, Dominic Sibley and Simon Harmer - all performed exceptionally well in the county season - but after edging past them, he became the sixth player to have bagged the Young Player of the Year award and the Player of the Year recognition from the Professional Cricketers' Association.
"It's hard to put it into words. I am over the moon that players think I am worthy of winning the PCA Players' Player of the Year through performances this summer. You can take a lot of personal pride when you receive this award because it's your peers that vote for you. Earning this award is a huge moment and something I am very gracious of and I am sure the previous 49 winners are gracious of too," Stokes was quoted as saying by Cricbuzz.
"While this is an individual award, it is within a team sport so I am only in this position because of what other guys in our squad have achieved as well. What we have done as a team in 2019 is phenomenal, to win the World Cup and draw the Ashes has been a fantastic summer and something I am proud of personally and as a team."
While Sophie Ecclestone won the Women's Player of the Summer for the second time, Somerset's Tom Banton was awarded the Young Player of the Year. Chris Woakes and Stuart Broad were also named the ODI and Test player of the year respectively. Banton was instrumental in Somerset winning the Royal London One-Day Cup with 454 runs and carried his form into the T20 Blast where he amassed 549 more.
"I am very grateful and thankful to those guys who voted for me. I never expected it to be honest looking at the other nominees. If someone had told me the year I would've had at the start of the season I wouldn't have believed them. I have altered some technical faults I had at the beginning of the year with Marcus Trescothick and he has helped me a lot this year and has made me believe I can go all the way."
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