County Championship: Yorkshire openers Adam Lyth and Alex Lees honoured at Cricket Writers' Club Awards
Tuesday 30 September 2014 17:01, UK
Yorkshire's opening batsmen Adam Lyth and Alex Lees have claimed the top honours at the Cricket Writers' Club Awards.
The duo played a crucial role in Yorkshire’s LV= County Championship title success this season and as a result Lyth has been named the William Hill CWC Championship Player of the Year, with Lees picking up the CWC Young Cricketer of the Year award.
Lyth, 27, topped the Division One scoring charts with 1,489 runs and six centuries at an average of 67.68, while Lees' 971 runs came at an average of 44.13 with two hundreds.
Both awards are available only to England-qualified players, with the young players’ category limited to those under-23 on May 1.
Lees, 21, is the 11th Yorkshire player to win that prize, which dates back to 1950 and the fourth in seven years following Adil Rashid, Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root.
Lyth is the CWC's third Championship Player of the Year after Nick Compton and Wayne Madsen.
Also honoured at a lunch in London's Plaisterers' Hall was Lancashire's former England coach and Sky Sports commentator David Lloyd.
He received the Peter Smith award for an outstanding contribution to the promotion of cricket.
