Haseeb Hameed and Kathryn Bryce have each been recognised for their respective stellar seasons with two awards apiece at Nottinghamshire and The Blaze’s End of Season Dinner.
Hameed captained the Green and Golds to a first Rothesay County Championship title in 15 years and led from the front in doing so, scoring more than 1,000 runs for the second successive summer.
Meanwhile, all-rounder Bryce once again piled on the runs for The Blaze, who reached the last four of the Metro Bank One Day Cup and Finals Day in the Vitality Blast.
Both were duly acknowledged with their sides’ respective Overall Player of the Year awards, while Bryce lifted The Blaze’s Metro Bank One Day Cup Player of the Year gong and Hameed took home the Rothesay County Championship Player of the Year trophy.
Elsewhere on the night, homegrown Academy products Maria Andrews, Byron Hatton-Lowe and Freddie McCann received awards, as did standout stars of 2025, Tom Moores, Jack Haynes, and Georgia Elwiss.
The Charles Vernon Price Memorial Plate
The undoubted highlight of Byron Hatton-Lowe’s summer came at the beginning of August, when he signed a first professional contract with the Nottinghamshire first team, but it was also a year to remember for him in the Academy.
Nottingham-born Hatton-Lowe, the latest product of a distinguished Academy assembly line, was in sparkling form for the Under-18s in 2025, with his performances culminating in a handful of appearances for the Second XI.
Emerging Player of the Year
Having made his debut towards the end of 2024, batter Freddie McCann made a first full summer as part of the Nottinghamshire first team a memorable one, with over 700 runs, four fifties, and a standout century.
The left-hander’s ton, a watchful 138, came in the first innings at home to Hampshire in May and helped tee up a crushing 366-run victory, one of seven achieved by the Green and Golds on their way to being crowned champions.
Notts Outlaws Metro Bank One Day Cup Player of the Year
The epitome of consistent, Jack Haynes made new career-best scores in both First-Class and T20 cricket in 2025, but it was the List A arena where he shone most brightly, scoring 473 runs in just eight innings at a significant average of 59.12.
Contained within those runs were four fifties and a hundred, with the latter a chanceless 124 from just 103 balls during a confident seven-wicket win over Glamorgan in Cardiff, and all of which added up to mean Haynes made at least fifty in over half of his innings in 50-over cricket this year.
Notts Outlaws Vitality Blast Player of the Year
The decision taken by Tom Moores to sign a white-ball-only contract ahead of the 2025 summer proved a masterstroke, as a sole focus on limited-overs cricket allowed him to register his most productive T20 season yet.
Moores struck 459 runs from 14 innings at a thoroughly impressive average of 45.90, with four half-centuries and a top-score of 75 in a memorable victory over Bears at Edgbaston, as the Outlaws made strides forward in T20 cricket to register seven wins.
Rothesay County Championship Player of the Year
For his consistent scoring exploits, Haseeb Hameed shone the most brightly in the red-ball arena throughout 2025, notching four centuries – two of which he doubled up on – to total a staggering 1,258 runs from 25 innings.
Remarkably, that still wasn’t enough to pip Surrey’s Dom Sibley at the top of the overall nationwide rankings, but his average of 66.21 certainly was, finishing comfortably clear of anyone who batted for at least three innings, while his four tons also placed him joint-first in that particular metric.
Nottinghamshire Overall Player of the Year
Not just for his batting, but for his sterling captaincy, Haseeb Hameed was called to the stage for the second time on the night after adding his name to the list of men to have led Nottinghamshire to the County Championship title.
In just his second season as Club Captain, Hameed led from the front with the most productive season of his career with the bat, and his summer culminated in being able to lift Notts’ first Championship trophy in a decade and a half following a seventh win from 14 matches.
The Blaze Academy Player of the Year
Left-arm spinner Maria Andrews enjoyed a thoroughly productive summer across The Blaze’s Academy and Second XI sides, as well as turning out regularly for Derbyshire in tier two of the recently-reimagined women’s structure.
She was part of The Blaze’s Second XI team that tasted glory on T20 Finals Day, while the highlight of her time for Derbyshire was an outstanding return of 5/17 against Northamptonshire on her way to totalling 11 wickets in seven games at a miserly average of just 14.63.
The Blaze Metro Bank One Day Cup Player of the Year
A century in the final match of the season was, on an individual level, a near-perfect way for Kathryn Bryce to sign off on another sensational season in the One Day Cup, as she hammered 632 runs at an average of 48.61 and claimed 18 wickets at 28.16 apiece.
Despite her 124 against Lancashire in the last four not being enough to get The Blaze over the line and into the final, Bryce continued to prove why she is fondly referred to by her teammates as the GOAT – the Greatest Of All Time.
Award collected by Kirstie Gordon on Kathryn Bryce’s behalf
The Blaze Vitality Blast Player of the Year
Stepping into a new environment is never an easy task, but it was a challenge that Georgia Elwiss rose to with aplomb after joining The Blaze from the old Southern Vipers – now Hampshire – ahead of the 2025 season.
Playing in every single one of The Blaze’s T20 games throughout the summer, Elwiss netted 422 runs across 15 innings at an impressive average of 35.16, passing fifty on five occasions, and complemented that with five wickets.
The Blaze Overall Player of the Year
If Kathryn Bryce keeps her awards in a cabinet, she may very well want to consider buying a bigger one, as she added yet another gong to her collection off the back of a stellar season across both formats.
Allied to her numbers in the One Day Cup, Bryce also struck 380 T20 runs, with three half-centuries, as well as taking 18 wickets at just 16.88 apiece with a best return of 4/13, as The Blaze reached Vitality Blast Finals Day.
Award collected by Sarah Bryce on Kathryn Bryce’s behalf
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