Cumbria’s Freddie Fallows has been chosen by the NCCA as their 2024 Most Valued Player in the Durant Cricket Championship.
Highlights of his Championship season included two centuries – including probably the fastest ever Minor County Championship against Hertfordshire in 39 balls, 28 minutes (9×4, 10×6) and a Best Bowling analysis of 6/32 against Cambridgeshire.
Across all Divisions he was the 5th highest wicket taker with 21 wickets and 16th highest run scorer with 325 runs.
Other winners in 2024 were Harrison Ward (Oxfordshire) as the T20 MVP and Sam Arthurton (Norfolk) as the One Day MVP.
Freddie becomes Cumbria’s 3rd MVP since the NCCA introduced the award in 2021. The club being, to date, the only county with three winners.
Previous winners
Championship: 2021: Graham Wagg (Shropshire), 2022: Matthew Siddall (Cumbria) and 2023: Conner Haddow (Buckinghamshire);
One Day: 2021: Andy Rishton (Berkshire), 2022: joint winners: Euan Woods (Berkshire) and Jonny Cater (Oxfordshire), 2023: Michael Slack (Cumbria);
T20: 2021: no competition, 2022: Robert Sehmi (Cheshire) and 2023: Nils Priestley (Staffordshire).
Freddie has just returned from Malaga where he was with the England team which won their third successful European Cricket Championship title by beating Netherlands – a repeat of the 2022 final.
The NCCA top order batting was so dominant that Cumbria CCC’s Freddie Fallows was not required to bat in any of the six games he played for the England XI.
In the brief times that he was called upon to bowl he did not take a wicket.
