Winners announced for NatWest PCA Awards 2008 – 29/09/2008

Winners announced for NatWest PCA Awards 2008 – 29/09/2008 The Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA), in association with NatWest and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), tonight hosted the NatWest PCA Awards 2008. In front of 1,100 guests at Old Billingsgate, London, Martin van Jaarsveld and Ravi Bopara were presented with the top player awards. The Awards are unanimously supported by the players, with the main awards voted on by the players themselves. The major award categories are the NatWest PCA Player of the Year and NatWest PCA Young Player of the Year. Reg Hayter Cup for the NatWest Player of the Year 2008 Martin van Jaarsveld (Kent) John Arlott Cup for the NatWest PCA Young Player of the Year 2008 Ravi Bopara (Essex) ECB Special Award 2008 Matt Prior MCC Spirit of Cricket Moment 2008 Mark Ramprakash PCA Special Merit Award 2008 sponsored by Brit Insurance Darren Gough & Graeme Hick PCA Umpire of the Year Neil Mallender Sky Sport Sixes League 2008 Graham Napier Impossible is Nothing Award 2008 sponsored by adidas Voted for on night Most Valuable Player Awards Twenty20 MVP 2008 – Graham Napier LV County Championship MVP 2008 sponsored by LV= – Dimitri Mascarenhas Friends Provident Trophy MVP 2008 sponsored by Friends Provident – Martin van Jaarsveld NatWest Pro40 MVP 2008 sponsored by NatWest – Steve Davies PCA MVP 2008 – Martin van Jaarsveld Hewitt Team of the Year 2008 1 Marcus Trescothick 2 Joe Denly 3 Mark Ramprakash 4 Martin Van Jaarsveld 5 Ravi Bopara 6 Samit Patel 7 Dimitri Mascarenhas 8 James Foster 9 Tim Bresnan 10 Tim Murtagh 11 Steve Harmison Previous winners of the Reg Hayter Cup for the NatWest PCA Player of the Year Award include: Ottis Gibson, 2007 Mark Ramprakash, 2006 Andrew Flintoff, 2004, 2005 Mushtaq Ahmed, 2003 Michael Vaughan, 2002 Winners of the John Arlott Cup for the NatWest PCA Young Player Award have included: Adil Rashid, 2007 Alistair Cook, 2006 & 2005 Ian Bell, 2004 Kabir Ali, 2003 & 2002 Over the past ten years, the staging of the NatWest PCA Awards has raised significant funds for the PCA Professional Cricketers’ Trust. The Fund is part of the PCA’s commitment to helping current and former players and their dependants in times of hardship, upheaval or to readjust to the world beyond the game.