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Walter Lawrence Trophy

Field	Value
name	Walter Lawrence Trophy
image	File:The_Walter_Lawrence_Trophy.gif
image_size	100px
caption	The Walter Lawrence Trophy
alt	The Walter Lawrence Trophy
awarded_for	the fastest hundred scored in an English season in a first-class innings
country	England
reward	£2,500
year	1934
holder	Liam Livingstone
most_awards	Ian Botham, Graham Lloyd, Leslie Ames, Viv Richards (2)
website

The Walter Lawrence Trophy is an annual award made to the player who has scored the fastest century in English domestic county cricket that season, in terms of balls received (not counting wides). Hundreds are considered by a panel of experts which, as of 2020, comprise Michael Atherton, David Gower, Simon Hughes and John Barclay. Those which are adjudged to have been made against declaration bowling are not eligible for the award, although this restriction was not always observed in former years.

The trophy was instituted in 1934 by Sir Walter Lawrence, a builder and cricket enthusiast from Hertfordshire, the first recipient being Frank Woolley. At this stage in its history, the criterion was the time taken to score a hundred rather than the number of balls faced. The award was made every season up to and including 1939 when Lawrence died. When first class cricket resumed in 1945 after the Second World War, Lawrence's son Guy left the presentation of the Trophy in abeyance. It was finally re-instated by Guy's son-in-law, Brian Thornton for the 1966 season. The recipient was then the player who had scored the fastest England Test century in terms of balls faced, at home or away, in the calendar year. The 1970 award was made to Geoffrey Boycott for "the most meritorious innings of the England v The Rest of the World series", but in 1971 the original version of the award was restored. Since 1985, the trophy has been decided in terms of balls faced rather than minutes spent at the crease.

University games were eligible for the trophy until 1995 and from 2001 to 2003. Until 2007, only first-class centuries could qualify for the award, but eligibility was widened in 2008 to include limited overs cricket. Graham Napier became the first man to win the trophy under these new conditions by scoring a 44-ball hundred in a Twenty20 match. Matches involving individual university sides (i.e. University Centre of Cricketing Excellence matches and the Varsity Match) are excluded, although games involving the combined British Universities team are eligible. Three other variants of the Walter Lawrence Trophy are also awarded annually: Walter Lawrence Women's Award, Walter Lawrence MCC Universities Award and Walter Lawrence Schools Award.

Four batsmen have won the main award on more than one occasion, twice each: Ian Botham, Graham Lloyd, Leslie Ames and Viv Richards. Kent have the most winners (8) followed by Somerset (6). The winner of the main award for the 2021 English cricket season is England batter Liam Livingstone, who struck 100 in 42 balls against Pakistan in the first T20 international match.

Winners

Frank Woolley standing with his bat — [[Frank Woolley]] was the inaugural winner of the trophy in 1934.

Tom Graveney playing a stroke — [[Tom Graveney]] won the award in 1968.

Viv Richards in a white t-shirt and beige shirt — West Indian [[Viv Richards]] is one of four players to have won the trophy on two occasions.

Chris Cairns in white cricket shirt — New Zealand batsman [[Chris Cairns]] won the award in 1995.

Damien Martyn playing a stroke — Australian [[Damien Martyn]] won the trophy in 2003.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore raising his bat in the air — [[Tom Kohler-Cadmore]] won the trophy in 2016.

Season	Player	Time taken	For	Against	Venue	Notes	Frank Woolley	Harold Gimblett	Leslie Ames	Joe Hardstaff Jr	Hugh Bartlett	Leslie Ames	Calendar year	Balls faced	Ken Barrington	Basil D'Oliveira	Tom Graveney	Colin Milburn
1934	63 minutes	Kent	Northamptonshire	Dover
1935	63 minutes	Somerset	Essex	Frome	Gimblett's first innings in first-class cricket
1936	68 minutes	England XI	India	Folkestone	not a Test match
1937	51 minutes	Nottinghamshire	Kent	Canterbury	url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/260595.html	title = Walter Lawrence Trophy	work = ESPNcricinfo	access-date = 29 June 2017	archive-date = 3 September 2017	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170903040832/http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/260595.html	url-status = live }}
1938	57 minutes	Sussex	Australians	Hove	after scoring 4 in the first 14 minutes
1939	67 minutes	Kent	Surrey	The Oval	url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mneeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT108	title = All in a Day's Cricket: An Anthology of Outstanding Cricket Writing	first1 = Brian	last1 = Levison	first2 = Christopher	last2 = Martin-Jenkins	page = 108	publisher = Constable	date = 20 September 2012	isbn = 978-1472117199	access-date = 1 October 2020	archive-date = 18 May 2021	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210518143757/https://books.google.com/books?id=mneeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT108	url-status = live }}
1940 to 1944: no first-class cricket in England
1945 to 1965: Trophy not awarded
1966	153 balls	England	Australia	Melbourne
1967	183 balls	England	India	Leeds
1968	174 balls	England	West Indies	Port-of-Spain
1969	163 balls	England	Pakistan	Karachi	url = http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/willey-takes-lawrence-award-for-summer-s-quickest-ton-1-6980167	work = Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph	date = 28 September 2015	access-date = 29 June 2017	title = Willey takes Lawrence award for summer's quickest ton	archive-date = 3 September 2017	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170903031839/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/willey-takes-lawrence-award-for-summer-s-quickest-ton-1-6980167	url-status = live }}
1970	222 balls	England	Rest of the World	The Oval	url = http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1096099/triple-figures--double-quick	work = The Cricket Monthly	title = Triple figures double quick	access-date = 29 June 2017	first = Scott	last = Oliver	date = June 2017	url-status=live	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170630233546/http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1096099/triple-figures--double-quick	archive-date = 30 June 2017 }}
1971	63 minutes	Leicestershire	Northamptonshire	Leicester
1972	70 minutes	Glamorgan	Warwickshire	Birmingham
1973	72 minutes	Kent	MCC	Canterbury
1974	83 minutes	Nottinghamshire	Derbyshire	Ilkeston
1975	44 minutes	Essex	Australians	Chelmsford
1976	70 minutes	Kent	Sussex	Canterbury	url = http://new.kent-ccc.co.uk/the-club/history	publisher = Kent County Cricket Club	title = A brief history – Kent Country Cricket Club	access-date = 29 June 2017	url-status=dead	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160320054751/http://new.kent-ccc.co.uk/the-club/history	archive-date = 20 March 2016 }}
1977	37 minutes	Yorkshire	Warwickshire	Birmingham	against "declaration bowling"
1978	82 minutes	Hampshire	Glamorgan	Southampton
1979	57 minutes	Gloucestershire	Northamptonshire	Bristol
1980	66 minutes	West Indies	Glamorgan	Swansea
1981	62 minutes	Surrey	Glamorgan	Swansea	batting at number nine
1982	52 minutes	Somerset	Warwickshire	Taunton
1983	35 minutes	Lancashire	Leicestershire	Manchester	against "declaration bowling"
1984	79 minutes	Middlesex	Kent	Lord's	url = https://www.lords.org/news/2010/oct-2010/gilchrist-wins-walter-lawrence-trophy/	title = Gilchrist wins Walter Lawrence Trophy	access-date = 29 June 2017	date = 7 October 2010	publisher = Lord's	archive-date = 11 October 2017	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171011082803/https://www.lords.org/news/2010/oct-2010/gilchrist-wins-walter-lawrence-trophy/	url-status = live }}
1985	50 balls	Somerset	Warwickshire	Birmingham
1986	48 balls	Somerset	Glamorgan	Taunton
1987	73 balls	Middlesex	Sussex	Hove
1988	79 balls	Worcestershire	Surrey	The Oval
1989	69 balls	Surrey	Essex	The Oval
1990	36 balls	Warwickshire	Glamorgan	Swansea	against "declaration bowling"
1991	61 balls	Lancashire	Yorkshire	Scarborough
1992	62 balls	Sussex	Lancashire	Hove
1993	73 balls	Nottinghamshire	Glamorgan	Swansea
73 balls	Glamorgan	Australians	Neath
1994	71 balls	New Zealanders	Glamorgan	Swansea
1995	65 balls	Nottinghamshire	Cambridge U	Fenner's	url = http://www.trentbridge.co.uk/news/2016/april/cambridge-mccu-vs-nottinghamshire-statistical-preview.html	publisher = Trent Bridge	access-date = 29 June 2017	date = 4 April 2016	first = Dave	last = Bracegirdle	title = Cambridge MCCU vs Nottinghamshire: Statistical Preview	archive-date = 2 August 2017	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170802110719/https://www.trentbridge.co.uk/news/2016/april/cambridge-mccu-vs-nottinghamshire-statistical-preview.html	url-status = live }}
1996	70 balls	Lancashire	Essex	Chelmsford
1997	73 balls	Lancashire	Leicestershire	Leicester
1998	72 balls	Surrey	Northamptonshire	The Oval	award shared
Kent	Worcestershire	Canterbury
1999	61 balls	Lancashire	Gloucestershire	Bristol	before lunch on the first day
2000	89 balls	Yorkshire	Kent	Canterbury
2001	61 balls	Gloucestershire	Derbyshire	Bristol
2002	66 balls	Kent	Sri Lankans	Canterbury	url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/123499.html	title = Fleming wins the Walter Lawrence Trophy and £5000	work = ESPNcricinfo	access-date = 29 June 2017	date = 23 September 2002	archive-date = 3 September 2017	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170903034810/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/123499.html	url-status = live }}
2003	65 balls	Yorkshire	Gloucestershire	Leeds	on the last day of the season
2004	63 balls	Somerset	Durham	Chester-le-Street	at number ten
2005	67 balls	Somerset	Derbyshire	Taunton	on the last day of the season
2006	45 balls	Nottinghamshire	MCC	Lord's
2007	73 balls	Gloucestershire	Leicestershire	Bristol
2008	44 balls	Essex	Sussex	Chelmsford	url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/countycricket2008/content/story/371682.html	title = Napier wins Walter Lawrence Trophy	date = 29 September 2008	work = ESPNcricinfo	url-status=live	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160314222655/http://www.espncricinfo.com/countycricket2008/content/story/371682.html	archive-date = 14 March 2016 }}
2009	47 balls	Worcestershire	Glamorgan	Worcester
2010	47 balls	Middlesex	Kent	Canterbury
2011	44 balls	Gloucestershire	Middlesex	Uxbridge
2012	37 balls	Sussex	Gloucestershire	Hove	2012 Friends Life t20 Quarter-finals
2013	44 balls	Kent	Sussex	Canterbury
2014	46 balls	Middlesex	Kent	Canterbury	award shared
Kent	Somerset	Taunton
2015	40 balls	Northamptonshire	Sussex	Hove
2016	43 balls	Worcestershire	Durham	Worcester	url = http://www.redditchadvertiser.co.uk/sport/wccc/14881921.Kohler_Cadmore_s_proud_parents_collect_Walter_Lawrence_Trophy_on_his_behalf/	work = Redditch & Alcester Advertiser	first = Geoff	last = Berkeley	date = 11 November 2016	access-date = 29 June 2017	title = Tom Kohler-Cadmore's proud parents collect Walter Lawrence Trophy on his behalf	archive-date = 2 August 2017	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170802110718/http://www.redditchadvertiser.co.uk/sport/wccc/14881921.Kohler_Cadmore_s_proud_parents_collect_Walter_Lawrence_Trophy_on_his_behalf/	url-status = live }}
2017	43 balls	Hampshire	Derbyshire	Derby	title=The Walter Lawrence Trophy	url=http://www.walterlawrencetrophy.com/?page_id=7	website=The Walter Lawrence Trophy	access-date=13 April 2022	archive-date=9 August 2020	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809084124/http://www.walterlawrencetrophy.com/?page_id=7	url-status=live }}
2018	35 balls	Worcestershire	Northamptonshire	Northampton
2019	38 balls	Essex	Surrey	Chelmsford
2020	44 balls	Nottinghamshire	Durham	Chester-le-Street
2021	42 balls	England	Pakistan	Nottingham

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