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My Awards for 2010

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Team of the year:

This is really tough because instinctively I want to give to the obvious choice of England – winning the T20 WC and retaining the Ashes has got to put you up there as does India’s continued topping of the test rankings but I’m actually going to give it to Somerset. Runners up in all 3 domestic formats shows incredible consistency

Worst team of the year

I was going to give this to New Zealand for their 5-0 series loss to Bangladesh but they put up a bit of a fight in India and have just beaten Pakistan in the latest series.  So I think I’m going to have to give it to my own Middlesex. Not because I think they played the worst cricket – far from it but a county with a catchment area like Middlesex and with some, on paper, really good players they should be doing better than 2nd from bottom in Div 2 and not getting past the group stages in either CB40 or T20.   I think they’ll come good though either this season or next.

Player of the year

I’m not sure you can give it to anyone but Sachin but my other nominations go to Jimmy Adams, Neil Carter, James Anderson, Jonathon Trott, Dale Steyn, Marcus Trescothick

worst player of the year

Xavier Doherty.  Honestly I’ve not seen much worse than that even in Div 2 of the CCC.

Competition of the year

There have been a number of great series this year, I really enjoyed the Pak/Aus series here in England, the domestic T20 competition whilst having too many fixtures had a really good culmination (despite the weather) but the award goes to The County Championship - it was a fantastic season in the CCC, lots of results (due to banning of heavy roller) and it went right down to the wire on the last day.  Fantastic stuff

Captain of the year

There’s some distinctly average captains around and about at the moment.  Great captaincy is a real art form and so few get it right but my award goes to a man who more often than not gets it absolutely bang on.  A man who’s fought his own horrible demons to go on and on – he’s had a marvellous season both with bat and as a skipper Marcus Trescothick

Journalist of the year

Honourable mentions to Lawrence Booth, Rob Smyth, Andy Bull and Andrew Miller but the award goes to

Steve James of the Telegraph for a couple of reasons

1)  For this article – refreshing humility and honesty from a journalist

2) For his coverage of the on-going Glamorgan saga – Glamorgan, obviously, has a special place in Steve’s heart but he manages to write informatively and objectively despite the situation being clearly quite upsetting for him.

Blogger of the year

There are some fantastic cricket bloggers around:  King Cricket, Gary Naylor at 99.99, Legsidefilth, County Kit Man (the secret diaries of Timothy Bresnan) as well as those who are doing it for a living such as Sam Collins at the Wisden Cricketer and Lawrence Booth in his Topspin blog but the award goes to

Steve Busfield at the Guardian for sheer regularity, consistency, interest and entertainment.  It’s the comments that really help make the daily Guardian ashes blog such a good read.

Tweeter of the year

Special mentions to Swanny, Finny, Jimmy who’ve clearly mastered how to tweet when you’re a bit famous (unlike Mr Vaughan) but the award goes to Darren Sammy – purely for giving comedians and bloggers on-going material

Best Website

There are an increasing number of great sites including Clear Cricket, King Cricket, the increasing content on the Testmatchsofa site.  I find the Wisden Cricketer site really good and the Guardian for content but the award goes to Cricket with Balls. This is how to do it – enough content to keep you enticed but not so much you’re pleading for him to stop.

Very honourable mention to Cricinfo for their increased county coverage – they give it a lot more space and report on all the games and the news.  County Cricket being my biggest passion this matters a lot to me.

Tosser of the year:

Giles Clarke just pips Ifjaz Butt.  It was a close thing but Giles is consistently an odious tosser but without the entertainment value that Ifjaz Butt gives.

Best Football related writer

Again, there are blooming loads of fantastic writers both amateur and professional such as Jonathan Wilson, James Appell, Rupert Fryer, Danny Last, Andrew Gibney but the award goes to the immensely knowledgeable, witty and erudite Andy Brassell

Best football related website

Honourable mentions to European Football Weekends, Zonal Marking, In Bed with Maradona, equaliser blog but the winner is

The Football Ramble - plenty of content and a great discussion board which the ramblers have fully thrown themselves into.

Another honourable mention to Picklive

My own highlights

- Beating Surrey quite so convincingly at Lords in the CCC

- Eoin Morgan’s ton against Pakistan

- Deciding to start writing a blog – I’m quite enjoying it

- Visiting a couple of grounds I haven’t been to before – Hove and New Road

- Doing odd stints on Test Match Sofa – they’re a really good bunch of people and it’s great fun

not cricket but the night of the NOPAs was great fun.

2011 promises a hell of a lot of cricket.  It’s been a wonderful winter of cricket and it continues into the ODI series in Oz then the World Cup then before we know it we’re into the domestic season and where my heart really is.

Thank you to everyone who has and continues to read my ramblings,  I’m mostly writing to see if I can actually do it but it is great that so many of you take the time to read it and its varying quality.   I don’t really know where this writing malarkey is going but I hope to branch out to do a weekly podcast on the County Championship with help from some much more knowledgeable people than me.

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