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Batsman Daniel Bell-Drummond wins five gongs at 2023 Kent end-of-season awards event at The Spitfire Ground

By: Thomas Reeves treeves@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 05:00, 05 October 2023

Updated: 10:51, 05 October 2023

Daniel Bell-Drummond won five of nine men’s accolades on offer at the 2023 Kent end-of-season awards on Wednesday to cap off a stellar summer for the right-handed batsman.

He took the big prizes of players’ player-of-the-year and player-of-the-year.

Kent men's 2023 award winners Grant Stewart, Tawanda Muyeye, Daniel Bell-Drummond, red-ball captain Jack Leaning and all-rounder Joey Evison. Picture: Ian Scammell

The 30-year-old also scooped men’s batsman-of-the-year and Spitfire white-ball player-of-the-year, as well as getting the WW Martin moment-of-the-year gong for his record-breaking County Championship Division 1 innings of 300 not out against Northamptonshire in June.

In a season-closing event at Canterbury’s Spitfire Ground, Kent players, staff, members, sponsors and stakeholders came together to look back on the 2023 season, sponsored by Shepherd Neame.

Bell-Drummond received more than 50 per cent of a total amount of votes from Kent’s members and supporters in the voting period.

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Red-ball captain Jack Leaning was named fielder-of-the-year after his outfielding across all formats, as he took 38 catches in 38 matches.

Opening batsman Tawanda Muyeye won emerging-player-of-the-year after scoring his maiden first-class hundred at Northamptonshire while all-rounder Joey Evison, 21, was named young player-of-the-year after putting in good performances for Kent across all three formats.

Kent Women's award winners Tilly Corteen-Coleman, Emily Barrett, Kalea Moore and Olivia Barnes. Picture: Ian Scammell

Italian international Grant Stewart was named bowler-of-the-year after he broke the club record for the most T20 wickets in a season. His 24 wickets surpassed Yasir Arafat’s haul of 23 in 2008 and Matt Milnes’ 22 in Kent’s victorious 2021 T20 Blast year.

For the Women, Tilly Corteen-Coleman won women’s players’ player-of-the-year and player-of-the-year awards after taking seven wickets in five matches at an average of just 15.57 - as well as seeing the Horses over the line in the “Battle of the Bridge” floodlit T20 at The Spitfire Ground this season.

Emily Barrett was named emerging player-of-the-year and batter-of-the-year after she averaged 34.00 with the bat, including 74 against Sussex in the Women’s London Championship and a century in the Final of the first Kent Women’s Premier League.

Daniel Bell-Drummond won five of the nine Kent men's end-of-season awards on offer. Picture: Ian Scammell
Kent Women's player-of-the-year and players' player-of-the-year Tilly Corteen-Coleman. Picture: Ian Scammell

Kalea Moore was awarded bowler-of-the-year. She averaged just 8.89 with nine wickets in four matches, which included figures of 4-10 in a T20 clash with Oxfordshire in May.

Olivia Barnes was crowned fielder-of-the-year.

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