Somerset captain Sophie Luff and Surrey’s Tilly Corteen-Coleman were the headline names on the 2026 Annual Skilled Cricketers’ Affiliation (PCA) Awards, with Luff crowned Girls’s Participant of the Yr and Corteen-Coleman named Girls’s Young Participant of the Yr in a ceremony that celebrated standout domestic performances and lasting contributions to English ladies’s cricket.
Held on the PCA’s annual dinner in West London on Wednesday night time, the Toyota-sponsored occasion noticed Luff recognised for a transformative summer season during which she moved up the order to open for Somerset and delivered across formats. She completed as the club’s main run-scorer in both the T20 Blast and the One-Day Cup and was an ever-present for the Trent Rockets as they gained the Girls’s Hundred for the first time. Her 536 runs at a mean of 41.23 and a strike price of 82.33 in 14 innings of the ECB Girls’s One-Day Cup 2026, together with three fifties and two centuries across 15 matches, underlined her consistency on the top.
“It’s tremendous special [that] folks have voted for me after the performances and impression they feel I’ve had this year,” Luff said, reflecting on the peer-voted honour. “I’ve all the time been a frontrunner that wishes to guide from the entrance. I’ve had a new position at Somerset opening the batting, and it’s safe to say it’s gone fairly well and I’ve most likely unlocked something to convey the very best out of me as a player.” Notably, she turns into the first uncapped winner of the women’s award since Eve Jones in 2021, a marker of how domestic excellence is increasingly shaping the nationwide conversation.
In the youth class, 19-year-old left-arm spinner Tilly Corteen-Coleman capped a breakthrough season by taking the Girls’s Young Participant of the Yr award. After incomes England debuts in both ODI and T20I cricket this summer season, she completed as joint-highest wicket-taker within the Hundred and carried that form into the domestic one-day competitors, where she claimed 12 wickets at a mean of twenty-two.08 and an economic system of 4.06 in seven innings across seven matches.
“It’s obviously an enormous privilege to win the award, and off the again of an unbelievable season, I couldn’t have been extra excited about it,” Corteen-Coleman said. Looking ahead, she set a transparent target: “It’s obviously an enormous year subsequent year for English cricket in 2027, so I’d like to be concerned in as much as potential. There’s a red-ball camp, and I nonetheless haven’t made my Test debut, so that might be an incredible opportunity.” With the subsequent Ashes set for Headingley, finishing the set with a Test cap is now her said ambition.
Beyond the headline awards, the night honoured enduring affect and repair. Heather Knight, who retired from international cricket this summer season and beforehand served as PCA vice-chair, obtained the PCA Outstanding Contribution Award, recognising her leadership on and off the sector. Former England team-mate Tammy Beaumont was presented with the ECB’s Special Benefit Award, while Gabi Brown was named Girls’s Umpire of the Yr.
PCA Awards 2026:
Girls’s Participant of the Yr – Sophie Luff
(shortlisted: Maia Bouchier, Sophia Dunkley, Mady Villiers)
Girls’s Young Participant of the Yr – Tilly Corteen-Coleman
(shortlisted: Jodi Grewcock, Charley Phillips)
Outstanding Contribution Award – Heather Knight
ECB Special Benefit – Tammy Beaumont
Girls’s Umpire of the Yr – Gabi Brown
For a ladies’s domestic season outlined by increased tempo, deeper squads, and extra visible pathways, these awards signal both the current power and the emerging depth of English ladies’s cricket.
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Source: femalecricket.com
