Walter Lawrence Trophy
Winners

Walter Lawrence Trophy

Section Title: Winners
Table Section Text: None

Season	Player	Time taken	For	Against	Venue	Notes

1934	Frank Woolley	63 minutes	Kent	Northamptonshire	Dover

1935	Harold Gimblett	63 minutes	Somerset	Essex	Frome	Gimblett's first innings in first-class cricket

1936	Leslie Ames	68 minutes	England XI	India	Folkestone	not a Test match

1937	Joe Hardstaff Jr	51 minutes	Nottinghamshire	Kent	Canterbury

1938	Hugh Bartlett	57 minutes	Sussex	Australians	Hove	after scoring 4 in the first 14 minutes

1939	Leslie Ames	67 minutes	Kent	Surrey	The Oval

1940 to 1944: no first-class cricket in England

1945 to 1965: Trophy not awarded

Calendar year	Balls faced

1966	Ken Barrington	153 balls	England	Australia	Melbourne

1967	Basil D'Oliveira	183 balls	England	India	Leeds

1968	Tom Graveney	174 balls	England	West Indies	Port-of-Spain

1969	Colin Milburn	163 balls	England	Pakistan	Karachi

1970	Geoffrey Boycott	222 balls	England	Rest of the World	The Oval	"most meritorious" innings of the series

Season	Time taken

1971	Brian Davison	63 minutes	Leicestershire	Northamptonshire	Leicester

1972	Majid Khan	70 minutes	Glamorgan	Warwickshire	Birmingham

1973	Asif Iqbal	72 minutes	Kent	MCC	Canterbury

1974	Garry Sobers	83 minutes	Nottinghamshire	Derbyshire	Ilkeston

1975	Robin Hobbs	44 minutes	Essex	Australians	Chelmsford

1976	Alan Knott	70 minutes	Kent	Sussex	Canterbury

1977	Chris Old	37 minutes	Yorkshire	Warwickshire	Birmingham	against "declaration bowling"

1978	Gordon Greenidge	82 minutes	Hampshire	Glamorgan	Southampton

1979	Mike Procter	57 minutes	Gloucestershire	Northamptonshire	Bristol

1980	Viv Richards	66 minutes	West Indies	Glamorgan	Swansea

1981	Sylvester Clarke	62 minutes	Surrey	Glamorgan	Swansea	batting at number nine

1982	Ian Botham	52 minutes	Somerset	Warwickshire	Taunton

1983	Steve O'Shaughnessy	35 minutes	Lancashire	Leicestershire	Manchester	against "declaration bowling"

1984	Mike Gatting	79 minutes	Middlesex	Kent	Lord's

Balls faced

1985	Ian Botham	50 balls	Somerset	Warwickshire	Birmingham

1986	Viv Richards	48 balls	Somerset	Glamorgan	Taunton

1987	Roland Butcher	73 balls	Middlesex	Sussex	Hove

1988	Graeme Hick	79 balls	Worcestershire	Surrey	The Oval

1989	Darren Bicknell	69 balls	Surrey	Essex	The Oval

1990	Tom Moody	36 balls	Warwickshire	Glamorgan	Swansea	against "declaration bowling"

1991	Ian Austin	61 balls	Lancashire	Yorkshire	Scarborough

1992	Matthew Maynard	73 balls	Glamorgan	Australians	Neath

1993	Paul Johnson	73 balls	Nottinghamshire	Glamorgan	Swansea

1994	Ken Rutherford	71 balls	New Zealanders	Glamorgan	Swansea

1995	Chris Cairns	65 balls	Nottinghamshire	Cambridge U	Fenner's

1996	Graham Lloyd	70 balls	Lancashire	Essex	Chelmsford

1997	Graham Lloyd	73 balls	Lancashire	Leicestershire	Leicester

1998	Ali Brown	72 balls	Surrey	Northamptonshire	The Oval	award shared

Carl Hooper	Kent	Worcestershire	Canterbury

1999	Andrew Flintoff	61 balls	Lancashire	Gloucestershire	Bristol	before lunch on the first day

2000	Darren Lehmann	89 balls	Yorkshire	Kent	Canterbury

2001	Ian Harvey	61 balls	Gloucestershire	Derbyshire	Bristol

2002	Matthew Fleming	66 balls	Kent	Sri Lankans	Canterbury

2003	Damien Martyn	65 balls	Yorkshire	Gloucestershire	Leeds	on the last day of the season

2004	Richard Johnson	63 balls	Somerset	Durham	Chester-le-Street	at number ten

2005	Ian Blackwell	67 balls	Somerset	Derbyshire	Taunton	on the last day of the season

2006	Mark Ealham	45 balls	Nottinghamshire	MCC	Lord's

2007	Marcus North	73 balls	Gloucestershire	Leicestershire	Bristol

2008	Graham Napier	44 balls	Essex	Sussex	Chelmsford

2009	Vikram Solanki	47 balls	Worcestershire	Glamorgan	Worcester

2010	Adam Gilchrist	47 balls	Middlesex	Kent	Canterbury

2011	Kevin O'Brien	44 balls	Gloucestershire	Middlesex	Uxbridge

2012	Scott Styris	37 balls	Sussex	Gloucestershire	Hove	2012 Friends Life t20 Quarter-finals

2013	Darren Stevens	44 balls	Kent	Sussex	Canterbury

2014	Daniel Christian	46 balls	Middlesex	Kent	Canterbury	award shared

Sam Billings	Kent	Somerset	Taunton

2015	David Willey	40 balls	Northamptonshire	Sussex	Hove

2016	Tom Kohler-Cadmore	43 balls	Worcestershire	Durham	Worcester

2017	Shahid Afridi	43 balls	Hampshire	Derbyshire	Derby

2018	Martin Guptill	35 balls	Worcestershire	Northamptonshire	Northampton

Sentence(s)

The 1970 award was made to Geoffrey Boycott for "the most meritorious innings of the England v The Rest of the World series".

final_sentence: The 1970 award was made to Geoffrey Boycott for "the most meritorious innings of the England v The Rest of the World series".