England batters Tammy Beaumont and Harry Brook have been named the Skilled Cricketers’ Affiliation ladies’s and males’s gamers of the yr.
Within the Ashes Check in opposition to Australia in June, opener Beaumont, 32, turned the primary England ladies’s participant to rating a double century.
She was then the primary feminine centurion in The Hundred in August.
Brook, 24, scored 363 runs within the Ashes, earlier than hitting the quickest century within the males’s Hundred.
Thunder and Manchester Originals left-arm seamer Mahika Gaur gained the ladies’s younger participant of the yr award, with Somerset wicketkeeper James Rew profitable the boys’s award.
Beaumont, who additionally gained the award in 2016, mentioned: “I am actually happy to win it, I used to be shocked simply to be nominated with a lot of gamers having actually good particular person summers in Nat [Sciver-Brunt], Georgia [Adams] and Bryony [Smith].
“I am very grateful that my friends have voted for me and I believe that is what makes the PCA Awards so particular as a result of it is voted for by your team-mates and opposition.
“Going ahead I simply need to be the most effective that I can and contribute to each crew that I play in in a optimistic approach.”
Brook, who has turn out to be the primary participant to win awards in three successive seasons after getting the younger participant award previously two years, mentioned: “I wasn’t anticipating to win this award if I am trustworthy, the final 12 months have been a dream come true and it is a big honour.
“To contribute to wins for my nation has been unbelievable and I need to proceed doing that. I’ve had the expertise of enjoying in numerous situations with and in opposition to a few of the finest gamers on the earth so to assist win video games of cricket for England has made it even sweeter.”
Earlier winners of the boys’s award embody Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root and Chris Woakes previously three years, with Nat Sciver-Brunt, Eve Jones and Sarah Glenn claiming the previous three ladies’s awards.
Gloucestershire spinner Tom Smith has been awarded an impressive contribution award for securing crucial well being cowl for all skilled cricketers in England and Wales.
Stuart Broad and Katherine Sciver-Brunt have acquired particular benefit awards for his or her contributions to England and cricket, having each retired from enjoying this summer time.
Umpires Michael Gough and Anna Harris additionally gained awards.
Record of winners
PCA ladies’s participant of the yr – Tammy Beaumont
PCA males’s participant of the yr – Harry Brook
PCA ladies’s younger participant of the yr – Mahika Gaur
PCA males’s younger participant of the yr – James Rew
Excellent contribution award – Tom Smith
Recognition award – the England ladies’s crew
ECB particular benefit – Stuart Broad and Katherine Sciver-Brunt
PCA umpire of the yr – males’s sport – Michael Gough
PCA umpire of the yr – ladies’s sport – Anna Harris