\n Livingstone, 32, picked up the award despite his Lancashire Lightning side failing to make it out of their group.\n<\/p>\n
\n The award marks something of a renaissance in Livingstone\u2019s form with both bat and ball after some recent difficulties in franchise cricket.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Barrovian finished the tournament with more than 450 runs at a strike rate of just over 164 from the 10 innings he played.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Lancs-man ended the campaign with an average of 50 and struck 26 fours and 35 sixes.\n<\/p>\n
\n With ball in hand, Livingstone took 12 wickets at an economy rate of 7.75.\n<\/p>\n
\n His tournament-best bowling figures were 3-13 \u2013 and he averaged 23.25.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Red Roses finished third in the North Group of the T20 Blast, missing out on a place in the quarter-finals.\n<\/p>\n
\n Hampshire, Essex, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Surrey reached the last eight of the Blast this year.\n<\/p>\n
\n Northants, Somerset, Hampshire, and Notts reached the coveted Finals Day at Edgbaston, which took place on Saturday, July 18.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was Darren Lehman\u2019s Northants who clinched the title this year, beating Hampshire by 14 runs in the tournament\u2019s final.\n<\/p>\n
\n Livingstone enjoyed a number of big scores in this year\u2019s Blast tournament, including 80 against Glamorgan, 85 not out vs Durham, and 60 in the Roses clash at Old Trafford, Manchester, against Yorkshire.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Barrovian is now set to captain London Spirit in this year\u2019s Hundred, after moving from his former franchise Birmingham Phoenix, who he skippered last summer.\n<\/p>\n
\n London Spirit are set to kick off their tournament on Thursday (July 23) at Lord\u2019s Cricket Ground.\n<\/p>\n
\n Speaking after being announced as captain in June, Livingstone said: \u201cI am really looking forward to leading London Spirit out at Lord\u2019s this summer.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s an iconic ground and with the largest crowds in the country, I know the fans will create a special atmosphere for every match.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere is so much talent throughout the squad, and I want us to make some history this summer. I can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Livingstone, 32, picked up the award despite his Lancashire Lightning side failing to make it out of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}