James Taylor has been named BDO player of the month for April after enjoying an excellent start to the season.

Taylor has been in fine form thus far, scoring more than 450 runs in all competitions, including centuries against Northants (YB40) and Derbyshire (LV=CC) and fifties against Durham and Middlesex in the LV=County Championship.

BDO partner Paul Ellis presented Taylor with a bottle of champagne at lunch of the first day’s play against Surrey this week, shortly after leading the Nottinghamshire team out as captain for the very first time.