More awards for Yorkshire!

The Society held their annual meeting last week when a raft of annual prizes were up for grabs and — as on the field this year — the White Rose again dominated.

Yorkshire and England wicket-keeper/batsman Jonny Bairstow won the Society's Denis Compton for Flair award with the style and manner of his batting while England's Ashes-winning Joe Root, from Sheffield, claimed the Society's Cricketer of the Year award.

Yorkshire skipper, Andrew Gale, won the Brian Sellers Captain of the Year for the second successive year and young Tyke batsman, Jack Leaning, picked up the CB Fry Young Cricketer of the Year award. The most promising young Yorkshire player award went to up-and-coming pace bowler Matthew Fisher.

Long-serving Yorkshire CCC worker James Greenfield, producer of the Yorkshire website, production editor of the county yearbook and previously editor of the club's White Rose magazine received the EH Umbers Award for Services to Yorkshire Cricket. James is also a dedicated committee member at the Northern Cricket Society and the long-serving WCLS chairman.

Away from Yorkshire, the Society's Arthur Wood wicket-keeper award went to Leicestershire's Niall O'Brien and the Fielder of the Year award was won by Middlesex's Ollie Rayner.

Author and writer, Stephen Chalke was awarded the JM Kilburn Cricket Writer of the Year for his significant book on the history of the County Championship, 'Summer's Crown'. David Lloyd was chosen as the Jack Fingleton Cricket Commentator of the Year.