Charlotte Edwards Named Fans’ Women’s Player of the Year

Southern Vipers captain Charlotte Edwards was named fans’ Women’s Player of the Year at the England Team Awards Dinner last night, ahead of her first season at the The Ageas Bowl.

The 36 year old has been a fan favourite during 20 years representing her nation, and received the award at the ECB dinner in Leeds a week after calling time on a decorated international career. With 5,992 runs, she is the current all-time leading ODI run-scorer in women’s cricket, and has scored more T20I runs (2,605) than any other player in the world (man or woman).

Yorkshire batsman Joe Root won three awards and Somerset bowler Anya Shrubsole, 24, was named England Women’s Cricketer of the Year for the first time, as former Test player and coach David Lloyd picked up the Special Achievement Award for a 50-year career in the sport.  

Root won the men’s Player of the Year award for Test and limited overs cricket, and was also voted supporters’ player of the year, after another impressive 12 months with the bat.

Callum Flynn won The Disability Cricketer of the Year after winning the Physical Disabilities World Cup in Bangladesh last autumn, and Essex batsman Dan Lawrence won the England Development Programme Cricketer of the Year.

Edwards is set to captain the Southern Vipers at the The Ageas Bowl this summer, as the inaugural season of the Kia Super League gets underway when the Surrey Stars are the visitors to the home of Hampshire Cricket on Sunday 31 July.

The Ageas Bowl will welcome England twice in 2016; firstly for a NatWest IT20 clash against Sri Lanka in July, on a day which will also see England Women face Pakistan Women, and then again in August for a Royal London ODI against Pakistan.

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