Yorkshire batsman Joe Root has won the 2012 Cricket Writers Club Young Cricketer of the Year award.
The 21-year-old opener has been heavily tipped as a possible successor to Andrew Strauss in the England top order after the former captain retired last month.
Root made 746 first-class runs this season, including a career-best 222 not out as Yorkshire gained promotion to the County Championship Division One.
Somerset batsman Nick Compton, another considered a potential long-term replacement for Strauss, was named the inaugural County Championship Cricketer of the Year after scoring four centuries on his way to accumulating 1,191 runs.
Both men will learn their England fate when the squad to face India this winter is announced later this week.
