Winners announced for NatWest PCA Awards 2008 - 29/09/2008

The Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA), in association with NatWest and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), tonight hosted the NatWest PCA Awards 2008. In front of 1,100 guests at Old Billingsgate, London, Martin van Jaarsveld and Ravi Bopara were presented with the top player awards.

The Awards are unanimously supported by the players, with the main awards voted on by the players themselves. The major award categories are the NatWest PCA Player of the Year and NatWest PCA Young Player of the Year.

Reg Hayter Cup for the NatWest Player of the Year 2008

Martin van Jaarsveld (Kent)
John Arlott Cup for the NatWest PCA Young Player of the Year 2008

Ravi Bopara (Essex)
ECB Special Award 2008

Matt Prior
MCC Spirit of Cricket Moment 2008

Mark Ramprakash
PCA Special Merit Award 2008 sponsored by Brit Insurance

Darren Gough & Graeme Hick
PCA Umpire of the Year

Neil Mallender
Sky Sport Sixes League 2008

Graham Napier
Impossible is Nothing Award 2008 sponsored by adidas

Voted for on night
Most Valuable Player Awards

Twenty20 MVP 2008 - Graham Napier

LV County Championship MVP 2008 sponsored by LV= - Dimitri Mascarenhas

Friends Provident Trophy MVP 2008 sponsored by Friends Provident - Martin van Jaarsveld

NatWest Pro40 MVP 2008 sponsored by NatWest - Steve Davies

PCA MVP 2008 - Martin van Jaarsveld

Hewitt Team of the Year 2008

1 Marcus Trescothick
2 Joe Denly
3 Mark Ramprakash
4 Martin Van Jaarsveld
5 Ravi Bopara
6 Samit Patel
7 Dimitri Mascarenhas
8 James Foster
9 Tim Bresnan
10 Tim Murtagh
11 Steve Harmison

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

Ottis Gibson, 2007
Mark Ramprakash, 2006
Andrew Flintoff, 2004, 2005
Mushtaq Ahmed, 2003
Michael Vaughan, 2002

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

Adil Rashid, 2007
Alistair Cook, 2006 & 2005
Ian Bell, 2004
Kabir Ali, 2003 & 2002

Over the past ten years, the staging of the NatWest PCA Awards has raised significant funds for the PCA Benevolent Fund. The Fund is part of the PCA's commitment to helping current and former players and their dependants in times of hardship, upheaval or to readjust to the world beyond the game.