Nottinghamshire Women’s cricketer Sonia Odedra has been honoured at the 2015 Asian Cricket Awards by winning the Woman in Cricket award.
Having represented England in one Test match in 2014, this summer has all been about her work with Notts as the all-rounder contributed with both bat and ball.
The right-hander scored 267 runs and took 13 wickets in all competitions for Notts Women this year as she also turned out for England’s Academy.
She was honoured alongside other professional cricketers in Moeen Ali and Vikram Solanki and received widespread praise from the likes of Kabir Ali and Jas Jassai, the founder of the awards.
“Congratulations to Sonia on winning the award last night,” Ali tweeted whilst Jassai added “a well-deserved woman in cricket award winner.”
The full list of winners at the 2015 Asian Cricket Awards:
Behind the scenes award - Dr Harjinder Singh
Grassroots award - Azam Riyard (Crawley Eagles CC)
Founders special recognition award - Munir Ali (Moseley Ashfield CC), the late Bavalan Pathmanathan (Manipay Parish Sports Club)
Professional Young Player of the Year award - Haseeb Hameed (Lancashire and England U19)
Woman in cricket award - Sonia Odedra (Nottinghamshire and England)
Founders special recognition award - Vikram Solanki
Coach of the year award - Saba Nasim (ECB 2015 coach of the year)
ECB diversity award - Glamorgan & Cricket Wales
Inspiration award - Salma Bi (Worcestershire)
Founders lifetime achievement award - Mihir Bose
Media award - Nikesh Rughani (BBC Sport, Sky Sports, BBC Asian Network)
Asian cricket club of the year - Attock CC (Birmingham) & Batley CC (Yorkshire)
Professional Player of the Year - Moeen Ali (Worcestershire and England)
The 2015 season has seen dramatic last-gasp four day victories, thrilling limited-overs contests and an historic Investec Ashes Test, all in the unique surroundings of Trent Bridge.
Next season, we’d wager, will be no less enthralling and frankly we’d hate for you to miss out.