Marcus Trescothick is players' Player of the Year

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.

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