Cricket Writers' Club County Championship Player of the Year

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Nick Compton was the inaugural winner, and one of two players to also be named Wisden Cricketer of the Year and PCA Player of the Year for the same season. Nick compton batting.jpg
Nick Compton was the inaugural winner, and one of two players to also be named Wisden Cricketer of the Year and PCA Player of the Year for the same season.

The Cricket Writers' Club County Championship Player of the Year is an annual cricket award, presented to the player who is adjudged to have been the best of the year in the County Championship, England's first-class cricket competition. The award has been presented since the 2012 season and the winner is chosen by a vote amongst the members of the Cricket Writers' Club, [1] an association open to "recognised correspondents of newspapers and periodicals and on radio and television". [2] Any male player competing in the County Championship is eligible. [1]

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Nick Compton was the first recipient of the award in 2012, [3] and is one of six winners to have been recognised for their batting exploits: the only bowlers to have won the award were Jamie Porter in 2017 and Simon Harmer in 2019. Harmer is also one of only two non-English players to have won, along with his South African compatriot Wayne Madsen. Players representing Essex have won the award three times, those from Yorkshire have won it twice, while no other county has been represented more than once. The most recent winner is Alastair Cook, whose 563 runs helped Essex to secure the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy. [4]

For six of the nine seasons that the award has been given, the Cricket Writers' Club County Championship Player of the Year has also been named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year; only Wayne Madsen in 2013, Keaton Jennings in 2016 and Cook in 2020 missed out. Three of the winners also claimed awards voted on by the members of the Professional Cricketers' Association (the players' trade union) in the same season; [5] Compton and Lyth won the PCA Player of the Year award in 2012 and 2014, while in 2017, Porter won the PCA Young Player of the Year.

The 2020 award was given for performances in the Bob Willis Trophy, which replaced the County Championship for the shortened 2020 season caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.

Winners

Cricket Writers' Club County Championship Players of the Year [1]
YearPlayerNationalityClubOther awards that year [lower-alpha 1] [6] [7] [8] NotesRef
2012 Nick Compton Flag of England.svg England Somerset Wisden Cricketer of the Year
PCA Player of the Year 		Scored 1,191 runs [3]
2013 Wayne Madsen Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa [lower-alpha 2] Derbyshire Scored 1,221 runs [11]
2014 Adam Lyth Flag of England.svg England Yorkshire Wisden Cricketer of the Year
PCA Player of the Year 		Scored 1,489 runs [12]
2015 Jonny Bairstow Flag of England.svg England Yorkshire Wisden Cricketer of the Year Scored 1,108 runs [13]
2016 Keaton Jennings Flag of England.svg England Durham Scored 1,548 runs [14]
2017 Jamie Porter Flag of England.svg England Essex Wisden Cricketer of the Year
PCA Young Player of the Year 		Took 75 wickets [15]
2018 Rory Burns Flag of England.svg England Surrey Wisden Cricketer of the Year Scored 1,359 runs [16]
2019 Simon Harmer Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Essex Wisden Cricketer of the Year Took 83 wickets [17]
2020 Alastair Cook Flag of England.svg England Essex Scored 563 runs [4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Note that Wisden Cricketers of the Year are awarded for the previous year. For the purposes of this list, being named Cricket Writers' Club County Championship Player of the Year in 2012 is equivalent to being named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2013.
  2. ↑ At the time of his award, Madsen was only eligible to play for his native South Africa. [9] He later gained British citizenship and became eligible to play for England. [10]

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