More awards for Ramprakash

The awards just keep coming for Mark Ramprakash, whose prolific season has now earned him the Player's Player of the Season award and the Batsman of the Season which he picked up at Surrey's End of Season Awards on Friday evening.

Ramprakash became just the fifth player in an English first-class season to finish with an average of over 100. Only Sir Don Bradman (1938), Geoff Boycott (in both 1971 and 1979), Graham Gooch (1990) and Damien Martyn (2001) have reached this significant milestone before him.

This was the second awards accolade in one week for Ramprakash, who also received the honour of PCA Player of the Year, which was presented to him at last Monday's PCA Awards held at the Royal Albert Hall.

Ramprakash finished the 2006 season with an incredible 2278 runs to his name - more than 400 runs more than his nearest rival, HD Ackerman of Leicestershire. He also had five scores of 150 or more in successive matches, something that has never been matched in first-class cricket.

"It has been one of those seasons where, even though I have been doing things the same way, everything has clicked," said Ramprakash and went on, almost needlessly: "I have really enjoyed this year."

But stiffer challenges lie ahead for him. This weekend Ramprakash will take to the dancefloor for the first round of Strictly Come Dancing.