Essex and England cricketer Ben Foakes has been named England Development Programme Cricketer of the Year.
The wicketkeeper-batsman was honoured at a dinner in the Long Room at Lord's yesterday hosted by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Foakes was England's leading run-scorer at the Under-19 World Cup in Australia last summer, and toured India with the England Performance Programme squad over the winter and Australia with England Lions earlier this year.
He also made 93 on his county championship debut for Essex against Leicestershire earlier in the summer.
Matt Prior and Katherine Brunt were named as the England Men's Cricketer of the Year and Women's Cricketer of the Year for the same period, 2012/13.
The awards recognise outstanding performances in all formats of international cricket over the past year beginning with last summer's domestic international programme and encompassing the recent winter tours.
Matthew Dean, from Welling in Kent, received the Disability Cricketer of the Year award after 12 months with the England visually impaired squad.
ECB chief executive David Collier said: "There have some memorable individual performances across all our England teams over the past year - a 12-month period which saw the England Men's team win a Test Series in India for the first time in 28 years and England Women complete a clean sweep of four NatWest Series wins at home last summer.
"We congratulate the winners, Matt, Katherine, Matthew and Ben, on their individual achievements and thank all those who took part in the judging process as well as our team sponsor Brit, and the MCC, for their help in staging our annual awards ceremony."
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