Winners Announced for 2011 NatWest PCA Awards - 22/09/11

The Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA), in association with NatWest and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), tonight hosted the NatWest PCA Awards. In front of players, former players, officials and guests, Marcus Trescothick was crowned NatWest PCA Player of the Year for 2011, while Alex Hales was named as NatWest PCA Young Player of the Year.

Somerset opening batsman Trescothick had another outstanding season, captaining his side to the Clydesdale Bank 40 and Friends Life t20 Finals. In accumulating 2,518 runs in all cricket he finished as the leading aggregate run scorer in the English domestic season, despite missing a number of matches through injury. Trescothick scored four centuries and two double-centuries in the LV= County Championship, and a century in the Clydesdale Bank 40 and Friends Life t20 competitions. After winning this award in 2000 and in 2009, Trescothick becomes only the second player in the PCA's history to win the Reg Hayter Cup three times, joining the great Sir Richard Hadlee.

Nottinghamshire's right-handed opening batsman Hales passed a thousand runs in the LV= County Championship for the first time in 2011 and also demonstrated his all-round game by hitting 544 runs at a strike-rate of 147 in the Friends Life t20. He made 1,833 runs in all cricket, was awarded his county cap during the season and earned an England call-up in the NatWest International T20 fixture versus India.

RBS Senior Marketing Manager, Sponsorship Marketing UK Retail, Dominic Warne said: "On behalf of everyone at NatWest I would like to congratulate all of tonight's winners. We have been supporting cricket for more than 30 years and our sponsorship of the PCA Awards is part of our ongoing commitment to the game. This year has seen us launch the NatWest Cricket Club to raise awareness of the challenges facing cricket at grassroots level and to galvanise support, in order to address these issues locally and reward participation.

"Supporting the PCA Awards enables us to celebrate sporting excellence in what is an exciting and successful time to be involved in English cricket."

The full list of award winners is as follows:

Reg Hayter Cup for the NatWest PCA Player of the Year
Marcus Trescothick (Somerset)

John Arlott Cup for the NatWest PCA Young Player of the Year
Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire)

ECB Special Award
Patrick Eagar

PCA Special Merit Award, sponsored by Brit Insurance
Jack Bannister

Sky Sports Sixes League Winner
Darren Stevens (Kent)

NatWest ODI Player of the Year
Stuart Broad

England FTI MVP of the Summer
Alastair Cook

LV= County Championship Player of the Decade
Mark Ramprakash

Friends Life t20 Player of the Year
Andrew McDonald (Leicestershire)

Clydesdale Bank 40 Player of the Year
Chris Nash (Sussex)

FTI Team of the Year
Alastair Cook (Essex & England)
Marcus Trescothick (Somerset)
Chris Nash (Sussex)
Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire & England)
Darren Stevens (Kent)
Steven Davies (Surrey)
Samit Patel (Nottinghamshire & England)
Chris Woakes (Warwickshire & England)
James Anderson (Lancashire & England)
David Masters (Essex)
Monty Panesar (Sussex)

PCA Umpire of the Year
Michael Gough

Notes to editors

Previous winners of the Reg Hayter Cup for the NatWest PCA Player of the Year include:

Neil Carter, 2010
Marcus Trescothick, 2009 & 2000
Martin van Jaarsveld, 2008
Ottis Gibson, 2007
Mark Ramprakash, 2006
Andrew Flintoff, 2005 & 2004

Winners of the John Arlott Cup for the NatWest PCA Young Player of the Year have included:

Adam Lyth, 2010
James Taylor, 2009
Ravi Bopara, 2008
Adil Rashid, 2007
Alastair Cook, 2006 & 2005  

Photography

The official Awards photographers are Getty Images, who can provide images of the players arriving and winners collecting their awards.

The NatWest PCA Awards is the biggest fundraising event of the year for the PCA Benevolent Fund - registered charity number 1120088. The PCA Benevolent Fund raises vital monies to help current and former players and their dependants in times of hardship, upheaval or to readjust to the world beyond the game.

The Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA) is the collective and representative voice of first class cricketers in England and Wales. Its role is to safeguard the rights of present, past and future first class cricketers.

ECB, the England and Wales Cricket Board, is the governing body of cricket in England and Wales.

For more than 30 years, NatWest has been an innovative and passionate presence at the heart of international, domestic and grassroots cricket in England. NatWest has been title sponsor of the NatWest PCA Awards since 2003.

As well as continuing to provide support for the biggest names in today's game, NatWest is helping to nurture the leading players of tomorrow with a variety of schemes at the grassroots level through the development of the NatWest Cricket Club. New this year, the NatWest Cricket Club has been created to raise awareness of the challenges facing cricket at grassroots level and aims to generate £20m of additional support for local clubs through a combination of volunteering, fundraising and contributions from local businesses and communities. The initiative will galvanise the support of fans across the country in order to address these issues locally and reward participation.

For more information please visit www.natwest.com/cricket

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