Moeen wins PCA Player of the Year
- October 4, 2013, 7:40 pm
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LONDON, Oct 04 (Online): Moeen Ali, the Worcestershire batsman, has been named the Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA) Player of the Year for 2013.
Moeen, who is in England's Performance Programme squad to tour Australia this winter, was the leading Championship run-scorer and also became the first player to tally more than 2000 runs and take 40 wickets in all formats since 2005.
Moeen scored 1375 Championship runs in Division Two, although his county, Worcestershire, fell some way short of mounting a promotion challenge. He beat fellow nominees Michael Hogan, Samit Patel and Graham Onions to the award, which was won last year by Nick Compton. Stokes was up against the 2012 Young Player, Joe Root, Reece Topley and James Vince.
Onions did pick up the prize for Championship Player of the Year, although England's successful home season, in which they swept New Zealand in their two Tests and won the Ashes 3-0, meant he was squeezed out of the Team of the Year.
