Batsman Daniel Bell-Drummond wins five of nine men’s accolades on offer at the 2023 Kent end-of-season awards evening at The Spitfire Ground

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 season for the right-handed batsman.

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

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 received in the voting period.

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.

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

For the Women, Tilly Corteen-Coleman won both 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