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Having burst onto the Worcestershire scene, Zaheer Khan has claimed the first Rock Lobster Player of the Month award.
There will be four more awards throughout the season and a final award to the Player of the Year at the last home NatWest Pro40 game.
The points are awarded by members of the Press who cover all the County’s First Class and one day matches and are allocated according to individual performance.
Please be reminded that the Liverpool Victoria County Championship match due to be played at Gloucester will now take place at the County Ground Bristol.
The Worcestershire squad travelling to Bristol is:
Solanki, Moore, Price, Batty, Khan, Sillence, Smith, Wedge, Hick, Kabir, Davies, Jaques.
Mark Ramprakash has been awarded May’s Brit Insurance Player of the Month by cricket manager, Alan Butcher.
The Surrey run machine has been in tremendous form since the season got underway in April but May was the month that the former Middlesex man cried out to be noticed. In a Liverpool Victoria County Championship match against Gloucestershire at the Brit Oval recently, Ramprakash made a personal best score of 292.
And if that wasn’t enough, he followed it up with 118 against Worcestershire two weeks later.
The 36 year old’s thoughts will now turn Surrey’s match with Essex at Whitgift, a ground he has particularly fond memories of. In 2003, he struck 279* against Nottinghamshire, 134 against Lancashire in 2004 and scores of 39 and 18 against Warwickshire in 2005.
To date, Ramprakash has already scored 510 runs in the Championship with the Bradmanesque average of 102.
Surrey Cricket Manager, Alan Butcher, along with Nick Addecott from Brit Insurance will present Mark with the award at the lunch break.
