Winners announced for NatWest PCA Awards 2009 – 09/10/2009

Winners announced for NatWest PCA Awards 2009 – 09/10/2009 The Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA), in association with NatWest and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), tonight hosted the NatWest PCA Awards 2009. In front of 1,100 guests at Old Billingsgate, London, Marcus Trescothick and James Taylor were announced as winners of 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 PCA Player of the Year 2009 Marcus Trescothick (Somerset) John Arlott Cup for the NatWest PCA Young Player of the Year 2009 James Taylor (Leicestershire) ECB Special Award 2009 Michael Vaughan PCA Special Merit Award 2009 sponsored by Brit Insurance Andrew Strauss PCA Umpire of the Year 2009 Richard Kettleborough Sky Sport Sixes League 2009 Dwayne Smith Impossible is Nothing Award 2009 sponsored by adidas Graham Stevenson Most Valuable Player Awards Twenty20 MVP 2009 – Darren Stevens LV= County Championship MVP 2009 – Ian Blackwell Friends Provident Trophy MVP 2009 sponsored by Friends Provident – Ed Joyce NatWest Pro40 MVP 2009 sponsored by NatWest – Phil Mustard PCA Overall MVP 2009 – Marcus Trescothick Hewitt Team of the Year 2009 1. Marcus Trescothick (Somerset) 2. Andrew Strauss (captain – Middlesex & England) 3. Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire & England) 4. Ed Joyce (Sussex) 5. Ian Blackwell (Durham) 6. Craig Kieswetter (Somerset) 7. James Foster (wicketkeeper – Essex) 8 Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire & England) 9. James Tredwell (Kent) 10. Graham Onions (Durham & England) 11. Steve Kirby (Gloucestershire) Previous winners of the Reg Hayter Cup for the NatWest PCA Player of the Year Award include: Martin van Jaarsveld, 2008 Ottis Gibson, 2007 Mark Ramprakash, 2006 Andrew Flintoff 2005, 2004 Mushtaq Ahmed, 2003 Michael Vaughan, 2002 Winners of the John Arlott Cup for the NatWest PCA Young Player Award have included: Ravi Bopara 2008 Adil Rashid, 2007 Alastair Cook, 2006 & 2005 Ian Bell, 2004 Kabir Ali, 2003 & 2002 Over the past decade, the staging of the NatWest PCA Awards has raised significant funds for the PCA Professional Cricketers’ Trust. 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.