Marcus Trescothick is players' Player of the Year
Marcus Trescothick was last night awarded the title of Fleming Premier Banking PCA Player of the Year at the Royal Albert Hall, during the Fleming Premier Banking PCA Awards Dinner
PCA Media Release
19-Sep-2000
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Marcus Trescothick Photo © CricInfo Ltd |
Marcus Trescothick was last night awarded the title of Fleming Premier Banking PCA Player of the Year at the Royal Albert Hall, during the Fleming Premier Banking PCA Awards Dinner.
The Fleming Premier Banking PCA Awards Dinner in association with the ECB was the largest cricket event ever to be staged outside a cricket ground. In excess of 1,500 guests enjoyed a spectacular event billed as a true celebration of cricket involving not just Fleming Premier Banking, PCA and ECB but also M.C.C., Channel 4, Sky Sports, and all participants of the domestic cricket fraternity. Guests included many past and present international and domestic cricketers and an array of celebrities.
The left-handed Somerset batsman who made his Test and One-day International debuts in 2000 joins a distinguished list who have won the PCA Player of the Year Award including Sir Richard Hadlee, Malcolm Marshall, Courtney Walsh, Graham Gooch, Brian Lara and Mike Proctor.
The 32nd winner of the award, Trescothick beat the other nominees, Martin Bicknell, Alec Stewart, Glenn McGrath and Andrew Caddick for this year's title.
Matthew Hoggard received the PCA Young Player of the Year Award.
Yorkshire born Hoggard made his test debut against the West Indies at Lords in 2000 experiencing the traumatic wait while padded up to see the 9th wicket pair score 31 runs to win a thrilling match.
Other nominees for young player of the year were Kabir Ali and Paul Franks.
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England strike bowler, Lucy Pearson, was named the Vodafone Female Player of the Year.
Lucy said "I was absolutely delighted to have won the Vodafone Female Player of the Year. For me this award represents the culmination of a lot of hard work, both personally and by the team as a whole. I am now looking forward to the World Cup in New Zealand with renewed confidence after our series win against South Africa this summer."
Matthew Fleming, Chairman of the Professional Cricketers' Association said:
"The concept, location and composition of the evening truly reflects the aims and image of the PCA".
Andrew Lowe, Commercial Director of Fleming Premier Banking said: "We are delighted to continue our relationship with the PCA through sponsoring tonight's awards. Our involvement tonight is in addition to our support of the PCA as a whole and an illustration of the great value we place on their work."
The awards dinner will be recorded and feature in a one-hour programme to be screened on Sky Sports 2 at 8.00pm on Thursday 21st September.
The remaining award winners were:
ECB Special Award Cornhill Insurance MCC Spirit of Cricket Award Jimmy Adams SFL Net Player 2000 Marcus Trescothick Vodafone Female Player of the year Lucy Pearson Sports.com Cricketer of the year Darren Gough Channel 4 Personality of the Year Alec Stewart Slazenger Sheer Instinct Award Alec Stewart CostCutter Under 15 Player of the Year Ravi Rampaul Jardine Lloyd Thompson Special Merit Award The Primary Club Freeserve Fastest Delivery Darren Gough Walter Lawrence Trophy Darren Lehmann Anderson Consulting PCA Umpire of the Year Ray Julian