is one of only two players to have won the Men's Young Player of the Year award twice.|alt=Kabir Ali
Men's Player of the Year The winning player is awarded the Reg Hayter Cup, named after a
sports journalist who was also a member of the
Marylebone Cricket Club, a
Lord's Taverner, and a life-member of
Surrey County Cricket Club. With the exception of the first year, when a joint award was made, the award has been bestowed upon one individual each season. The award is well regarded by its recipients; the 2014 winner,
Adam Lyth exemplified this by claiming that "it's a very proud moment to be voted for by your peers who you’ve played against all year." The award was first presented in 1970, when
Mike Proctor of
Gloucestershire and
Jack Bond of
Lancashire were joint winners. Seven players have won the award more than once, but only Sir
Richard Hadlee (1981, 1984 and 1987) and
Marcus Trescothick (2000, 2009 and 2011) have been named Player of the Year on three occasions. Two players,
Andrew Flintoff and
John Lever, have won the award in consecutive years. Representatives of all eighteen
first-class cricket counties have won the award. Gloucestershire players have collected the award most frequently, doing so on six occasions, while four of the counties (
Derbyshire,
Glamorgan,
Leicestershire and
Sussex) have only had one winner. On nineteen occasions, the PCA Player of the Year has also been named one of the five
Wisden Cricketers of the Year for that season, and in 2005 Flintoff won the PCA award in the same year as being voted
BBC Sports Personality of the Year. The
Cricket Writers' Club County Championship Player of the Year was introduced in 2012, and two of the three winners of that award have been the PCA Player of the Year at the same time.
Men's Young Player of the Year The winning player is awarded the John Arlott Cup, named after
John Arlott, a cricket journalist and commentator. The award is presented to the player who is adjudged to be the most promising young player in English
county cricket. Only players that are aged under 24 on 1 April of the awarding year are eligible for the prize.
Michael Atherton was the first winner of the award in 1990. Two players,
Kabir Ali and
Alastair Cook, have won the award twice, both doing so in successive years; Ali in 2002 and 2003, and Cook in 2005 and 2006. Representatives of thirteen of the eighteen first-class counties have won the award.
Yorkshire players have collected the most awards, doing so on six occasions. On three occasions the PCA Young Player of the Year has also been named one of the five
Wisden Cricketers of the Year; Atherton in 1990,
Ben Duckett in 2016 and
Jamie Porter in 2017. Duckett is the only player to have won both major PCA awards in the same year, as he was also named PCA Player of the Year in 2016. 18 of the 31 winners have also collected the
Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year award, chosen by members of the
Cricket Writers' Club, an association of cricket journalists.
Women's Player of the Year is the only player to have won the Women's Player of the Year award twice.|alt=Sophie Ecclestone First awarded in 2014, the award was originally presented to the member of the
England women's cricket team who is adjudged to have been the best of the English summer, as per a vote amongst the members of the team, as the Women's Player of the Summer. Prior to 2014, women had not held professional contracts, and so had not been eligible for membership of the players' trade union, the
Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA). With the professionalisation of parts of the domestic game during 2020, the award was opened up to domestic players for the 2021 award, with
Evelyn Jones becoming the first Women's Player of the Year for her performances for
Central Sparks and
Birmingham Phoenix.
Women's Young Player of the Year The award was first introduced in 2021, again as part of the further professionalisation of women's domestic cricket. The first winner was
Alice Capsey of
South East Stars and
Oval Invincibles, who was not a professional cricketer or PCA member at the time of her win. ==Winners==