 Powell impressed in a difficult season for Glamorgan |
Batsman Mike Powell has been named as Glamorgan's player of the year. The Abergavenny man, 29, scored 1327 Championship runs in 2006, including a career-best 299 against Gloucestershire in July, plus 202 against Essex.
Developing all-rounder Ryan Watkins, 23, has won the young player of the year award, the Blackwood man passing 500 Championship runs.
Matthew Maynard's 17-year-old son Tom is the academy player of the year, his all-round skills having impressed.
"It's fantastic to have a reward after a good season," said Tom Maynard, who hopes to follow his father in forging a professional career at Sophia Gardens.
 | As a batsman you shut yourself off from other things and score the runs that will help the team in the long run |
"The academy's been very important to my development, there's a really good set up here."
Dan Cherry won the Byron Denning clubman of the year award, and Steve Inwood - a prolific 15-year-old batsman from Milford Haven who plays for Llangwm and Pembrokeshire - won the academy's most promising player of the year award.
Powell said he had been able to forget Glamorgan's poor season and concentrate on his own game.
"As a batsman you shut yourself off from other things and score the runs that will help the team in the long run," Powell told BBC Sport Wales.
"I was happy with my season, I changed a few things technically in the winter and they paid off.
"Now I just have to work hard through the close season and hopefully keep doing it again and again in the years to come."
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