Nottinghamshire wicketkeeper and Captain Chris Read has been named as the Club’s Player of the Season at the End of Season Dinner & Player Awards.
The 37-year-old collected the evening’s main prize having averaged 51.35 with the bat in the LV= County Championship including three centuries, as well as continuing to excel behind the stumps and in the leadership role he has held since 2007.
The 2015 campaign saw Read become the 25th wicketkeeper to pass the presitgious landmark of 1,000 career dismissals, as well as posting his 15,000th first-class run.
Academy graduate all-rounder Brett Hutton was named Young Player of the Season in recognition of a breakthrough summer which has brought 37 championship wickets an average of 24.60, including a match-winning haul of ten for 96 in the recent 52-run victory over Durham.
Tom Keast, the 18-year-old wicketkeeper, won the Charles Vernon Price Memorial Plate for the Academy's Most Improved Player following a campaign that saw him emerge as a leading player from the England & Wales Cricket Board’s Super 4s competition, which showcases the best of the talent across the country in the under 17s age group.
A successful 2015 season that has also included winning the championship with Nottinghamshire’s Second XI, ended with selection for the England Development Programme this winter.
In the Club’s 2015 Player of the Year, the young gloveman has quite a mentor.