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Award
The
Walter Lawrence Trophy
is an annual award made to the player who has scored the fastest
century
in English domestic
county cricket
that season, in terms of
balls received
(not counting
wides
).
[1]
Hundreds are considered by a panel of experts which, as of 2020, comprise
Michael Atherton
,
David Gower
,
Simon Hughes
and
John Barclay
.
[2]
Those which are adjudged to have been made against
declaration bowling
are not eligible for the award, although this restriction was not always observed in former years.
[1]
As of 2020
[update]
, the recipient of the Walter Lawrence Trophy is also presented with a cheque for £2,500.
[3]
The trophy was instituted in 1934 by Sir Walter Lawrence, a builder and cricket enthusiast from
Hertfordshire
, the first recipient being
Frank Woolley
. At this stage in its history, the criterion was the time taken to score a hundred rather than the number of balls faced. The award was made every season up to and including 1939 when Lawrence died. When first class cricket resumed in 1945 after the Second World War, Lawrence's son Guy left the presentation of the Trophy in abeyance. It was finally re-instated by Guy's son-in-law, Brian Thornton for the 1966 season.
[4]
The recipient was then the player who had scored the fastest
England
Test
century in terms of balls faced, at home or away, in the calendar year.
[1]
The 1970 award was made to
Geoffrey Boycott
for "the most meritorious innings of the England v The
Rest of the World
series",
[5]
but in 1971 the original version of the award was restored. Since 1985, the trophy has been decided in terms of balls faced rather than minutes spent at the
crease
.
[1]
University games were eligible for the trophy until 1995 and from 2001 to 2003.
[1]
Until 2007, only
first-class
centuries could qualify for the award, but eligibility was widened in 2008 to include
limited overs cricket
.
Graham Napier
became the first man to win the trophy under these new conditions by scoring a 44-ball hundred in a
Twenty20
match.
[6]
Matches involving individual university sides (i.e. University Centre of Cricketing Excellence matches and the
Varsity Match
) are excluded, although games involving the combined
British Universities team
are eligible.
[1]
Three other variants of the Walter Lawrence Trophy are also awarded annually: Walter Lawrence Women's Award, Walter Lawrence MCC Universities Award and Walter Lawrence Schools Award.
[1]
Four batsmen have won the main award on more than one occasion, twice each:
Ian Botham
,
Graham Lloyd
,
Leslie Ames
and
Viv Richards
.
[1]
Kent
have the most winners (8) followed by
Somerset
(6).
[1]
The winner of the main award for the
2021 English cricket season
is
England
batter
Liam Livingstone
, who struck 100 in 42 balls against
Pakistan
in the
first T20 international
match.
Winners
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Frank Woolley
was the inaugural winner of the trophy in 1934.
Tom Graveney
won the award in 1968.
West Indian
Viv Richards
is one of four players to have won the trophy on two occasions.
New Zealand batsman
Chris Cairns
won the award in 1995.
Australian
Damien Martyn
won the trophy in 2003.
Tom Kohler-Cadmore
won the trophy in 2016.
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