Jonny Bairstow has won the Bob Willis Trophy after being voted as England’s player of the year by the Cricket Writers’ Club.<\/span><\/p>\n The batter made six Test centuries in 2022, including four in a home summer which saw England win six of their seven matches.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nat Sciver took the Women’s Cricket Award, while Kent’s Jordan Cox was named Young Cricketer of the Year.<\/span><\/p>\n Hampshire’s Keith Barker won the County Championship Player of the Year prize.<\/span><\/p>\n The Bob Willis Trophy was previously contested by the 18 first-class counties when the domestic game was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n It has now been adopted by the Cricket Writers’ Club to honour England’s player of the year, male or female.<\/span><\/p>\n Bairstow, 33, is currently <\/span>sidelined with a broken leg<\/span><\/a> suffered in an accident playing golf and will not return to action until the new year.<\/span><\/p>\n “This is one of those summers that we’ll always remember,” said Bairstow. “I remember the 2005 Ashes summer very, very fondly, and I’m hopeful that we as a group of people have inspired the next generation – or even people that haven’t played the game of cricket who have flipped on and we’ve entertained them.”<\/span><\/p>\n Sciver, 30, scored a century in a losing effort as England were beaten by Australia in the World Cup final in April and followed up with another ton in the drawn Test against South Africa in June.<\/span><\/p>\n
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