PETER HAYTER

The mainstream cricket awards season has come to an end with last night’s PCA dinner bringing the official proceedings to a close but no summer would be complete without my gongs so here goes. The envelopes, please.
The Kleenex award for outstanding contribution to Lachrymosity. (Is that a word? It is now).
Winners – Alastair Cook and James Anderson.
For one great of the game to bring grown men to tears is one thing, but what happened during and after England’s final Test against India at the Oval was unprecedented, the mother of all blubf...