Ben Duckett has been voted this season’s first Specsavers County Championship Player of the Week for 2016.
The Northamptonshire opener crashed an unbeaten 282 in his side’s rain-affected draw with Sussex in the first round of matches, which proved enough to come out on top via a twitter poll.
The 21-year-old left-hander romped home with 52% of the vote – more than double the share of Durham’s Keaton Jennings.
Jennings, also an opening batsman, had become only the third player in his county’s history to score a century in both innings of a County Championship match in the draw against Somerset.
Nottinghamshire seamer Jake Ball, who took 5-98 in the second innings before hitting the winning runs against Surrey was third, with Warwickshire’s Keith Barker, who took seven wickets against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl, finishing fourth.
Congratulations, @BenDuckett1, who’s been voted the Championship’s first Player of the Week. Well batted pic.twitter.com/DR7T5oSNva
— County Championship (@CountyChamp) April 15, 2016
Source: ECB