Dawson succeeds final 12 months’s winner, Harry Brook, with Jonny Bairstow (2022), Joe Root (2021), Chris Woakes (2020) and Ben Stokes (2019) additionally all securing the honour on the energy of their performances for England. Joe Denly was the final county participant to land the award, after starring throughout codecs for Kent in 2018.
The Participant of the Yr award, sponsored by cinch, was one in every of 4 that Dawson scooped through the PCA’s gala dinner in London on Tuesday, as he additionally received the PCA Males’s Home Total MVP and the Vitality County Championship Participant of the Yr, along with being named as captain within the IG PCA Males’s Staff of the Yr.
Dawson, who topped a shortlist that included Root, Gus Atkinson and Colin Ingram, stated: “It is an enormous honour, the opposite nominees are all good gamers and I did not count on this, so to win the award is a really proud second. It is an actual spotlight of my profession. I had a robust season final 12 months however to have an excellent higher season this 12 months, actually tops it off.
“It feels nice figuring out that the award is voted for by fellow gamers that you just play in opposition to week in, week out, so after I end my profession I’ll look again very fondly on this achievement as a result of it is one thing I by no means thought would occur.”
Kathryn Bryce was named PCA Girls’s Participant of the Yr•Getty Photographs
“It has been a superb 12 months, beginning with qualifying for the World Cup after which profitable the Charlotte Edwards Cup with The Blaze that was a extremely unbelievable a part of the season,” Bryce stated, after ending because the event’s main run-scorer with 478 runs, and turning into the primary non-English winner of the highest award.
“It is a 12 months I’ll bear in mind for a very long time and I need to say an enormous thanks to the PCA and cinch in addition to everybody who voted for me. I need to hold taking part in as a lot cricket as I can elsewhere around the globe, if I can play half in addition to this for the years to come back, hopefully I will have a great profession.”
Smith, 24, made an immediate impression throughout codecs after making his Check debut in opposition to West Indies at Lord’s in June, and in addition scored 677 runs in Surrey’s newest County Championship triumph.
“It has been a particular summer time,” Smith stated. “There’s been lots of achievements to look again on, with Surrey profitable three Championships in a row and to play within the Check crew after which ending the summer time taking part in in opposition to Australia was an excellent expertise.
Jamie Smith receives the PCA Males’s Younger Participant of the Yr award•PCA
“The England dressing-room is a superb atmosphere to be concerned in, I play my finest cricket after I’ve obtained a smile on my face and may exit and be assured and aggressive.”
MacDonald-Homosexual, in the meantime, stated she was “ecstatic” about her award, coming so quickly after her England breakthrough.
“Nailing down my expertise and acting on the pitch is the place my recreation has grown,” she stated. “I am exhibiting extra consistency which is tough when the sport has grow to be a lot extra attacking from the batter’s perspective.”
Neil Bainton and Anna Harris had been named because the PCA’s Umpires of the Yr, as voted for by the gamers, whereas the Rado Recognition award was given to England gamers Brook and Lauren Bell.
PCA Interim Chief Govt, Daryl Mitchell, stated: “It has been one other unbelievable 12 months throughout males’s and girls’s worldwide and home cricket. It’s at all times a privilege to have fun all our winners on the most prestigious awards ceremony in cricket.
“I need to say an enormous congratulations to our 4 most important winners at this 12 months’s cinch PCA Awards, all of them have been unbelievable and deserve their accolades.
“As at all times, I wish to thank cinch for making the PCA Awards potential and for his or her assist of our recreation.”
