Harry Brook and Tammy Beaumont have been named as the leading cricketers in England in the Professional Cricketers’ Association awards. Brook won the PCA men’s young player of the year in 2021 and 2022 – a crown that has now passed to Somerset’s James Rew – but the 24-year-old batsman secured the main title on Monday at the end-of-season awards after a remarkable 12 months at international level.
The Yorkshireman’s best work came last winter, four centuries spread across the tours of Pakistan and New Zealand before a solid first Ashes series in which he played a pivotal role in the run chase at Headingley. White-ball returns also led to a place in the England squad that begins its World Cup defence against New Zealand in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
Beaumont was voted women’s player of the year for the second time in her career after the 32-year-old became England’s first double-centurion in a women’s Test – 208 against Australia at Trent Bridge – and the first female centurion in the Hundred. An 18-month absence from the T20 squad will surely be revisited.
Rew, 19, claimed the men’s young player award following five centuries in the County Championship this year. Mahika Gaur was named women’s young player after the 17-year-old left-arm fast bowler lit up the Hundred in her first summer in the England white-ball side.
Joe Root has been named England men’s Test player of the year, while Hampshire’s Liam Dawson claimed County Championship player of the year after scoring 840 runs – including three centuries – and 49 wickets during Hampshire’s campaign.
