It’s time to salute the County Championship’s standout players this season: Sibley, Stevens, Abell, Bopara and Vilas
• The cricketers of the year in 2017
• The cricketers of the year in 2018
Dominic Sibley was a schoolboy when he scored a maiden century in his third first-class match for Surrey, enough to make the most jaded of county cricket’s legion of denigrators prick up their ears. He was branded “a talent”, a burden that seemed to grow heavy on his shoulders. He struggled to find an identity at the Oval. I last saw him there bashing and biffing in the T20 before having a bit of a bowl, keen to contribute, but almost too keen, that “talent” label all but visible as it tarnished, Sibley trying to justify it almost minute-by-minute.
Written by Gary Naylor
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/99-94-cricket-blog/2019/sep/30/five-county-championship-cricketers-year under the title “The five county cricketers of the year”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
