Broad claims young player award

Stuart Broad has won the Cricket Writers' Club Young Player of the Year award after his rapid rise through the Leicestershire ranks and into the England one-day squad. He was presented with the award at the club's annual dinner in central London on Friday night.

He joins a long list of illustrious names, but it doesn't include his father, Chris, who was also at the dinner. Stuart said: "It's nice to be the first Broad to win this award."

Broad has taken 40 first-class wickets this season and claimed four for 63 on Friday, in Leicestershire's draw against Northamptonshire, before traveling down to London.

Broad polled nearly three times as many votes as his nearest challenger - last year's winner Alastair Cook - and beat off competition from other candidates like Lancashire's Tom Smith, Ravi Bopara of Essex, Durham's Liam Plunkett and the Worcestershire wicketkeeper Steven Davies.