Player of the Year 2012: Steven Patterson, who was voted Player of 2012 by Yorkshire County Cricket Supporters’ Association members, receives his award from Committee Member Carol Blackburn and Secretary Paul Chapman.

The presentation was made on the final day of the Championship match against Derbyshire - shortly before Yorkshire waltzed on to a great victory. Steven is holding an individual award, which he keeps, and the new shield for the Player of the Year, with his the first name on it.

DEBUTANT BAIRSTOW HONOURED

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Chairwoman Charlotte Evers presented one of Yorkshire’s rising England stars, Jonathan Bairstow, with a painting of himself by Gordon Sharp on Monday, April 29, 2013, during Yorkshire’s triumphant LV County Championship match with Derbyshire, in which Jonathan struck 186.

YCCSA member Gordon, the father of former Yorkshire batsman and batting coach Kevin Sharp, is a highly proficient artist who likes to paint Yorkshire's players within a cricket setting.

Gordon’s previous works have included Matthew Hoggard and Gerard Brophy. On each occasion he has donated his art to the Supporters' Association.

McGRATH ON THE RECORD

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Former Yorkshire batsman Anthony McGrath, who announced his retirement from First Class cricket during the winter, receives a framed record of his 34 First Class centuries for the county, along with details of his best bowling analyses, from Chairwoman Charlotte Evers at the 2013 pre-season lunch.

Anthony, who made his debut in 1995, went on to score 14,091 First Class runs for Yorkshire and take 128 wickets in addition to being one of their heaviest-scoring batsmen in one-day cricket.

Here was a loyal long-serving member of the playing staff retiring after 18 years of faithful service, and the feeling was that he would be much-missed.

STOTT'S DIAMOND YEAR

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The Supporters marked the 60th anniversary of left-hand opener Bryan Stott’s County Championship debut at their meeting on Sunday, November 18, by presenting Bryan with a framed copy of the score-sheet of that match - against Middlesex at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, in June 1952.

Bryan said he remembered well his first scoring shot in Championship cricket - an edge to the boundary off fast bowler Alan Moss. The presentation was made by three members who saw Bryan in action: Michael Pulford, Bryan Leighton and David Watts.

CLOSE'S DIAMOND DOUBLE

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Five members of Yorkshire County Cricket Supporters' Association who saw Brian Close play in 1952 – when he became the first in the country to complete the First Class “double” of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets – presented him with a framed document itemising all of his runs and wickets that year.

It was on August 15, 1952, that Yorkshire all-rounder Brian, aged 21, became the first player in the country to complete the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets. On Wednesday, August 13, Yorkshire started a three-day Championship match against Hampshire at North Marine Road, Scarborough, and on that day Brian reached his 1,000 runs for the season.

On the third and last day, the 15th, Yorkshire won the match by the small margin of 17 runs - due in no small measure to the six wickets Brian captured. The Association acknowledged that anniversary by presenting Brian with a framed document itemising all his runs and wickets in that year - the presentation being made by five members who saw Brian play in 1952: John Harrison, Alan Kaye, John Briggs, Mike Andrews and Joan Fort.

Brian reached the milestone 10 days earlier than his nearest rival – Jack Walsh, of Leicestershire – and this in an era when First Class cricket was played on six of the seven days of the week. From Brian first doing the double - on September 2, 1949, and his getting there again on August 15, 1952, only one other First Class cricketer managed it: Ray Smith, of Essex.

SHARPE'S GOLDEN DAYS

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It is 50 years since Philip Sharpe’s 71 First Class catches for Yorkshire in 1962 beat the record set by John Tunnicliffe in 1901.

June 2, 2012, may have heralded the weekend to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the Queen’s Accession to the Throne, but Yorkshire County Cricket Supporters’ Association decided to mark Philip’s own special Golden Jubilee.

Left to right at the Supporters’ presentation of a framed statistical table to Philip at Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground are Alan Kaye, Joan Fort, Philip, Eric Stephens (also Yorkshire County Cricket Club Members’ Committee) and John Briggs.

Eric said that so outstanding was Philip’s slip fielding that there was a danger of forgetting his batting. In fact, Philip had an excellent 1962 with 2,252 First Class runs and six centuries at an average of over 40 in all of his 64 First Class innings – and this in addition to his record-breaking 71 First Class catches.

Philip holds two records from his golden year of 1962:
Most catches by a Yorkshire player for the county in First Class matches - 70
Most catches by a Yorkshire player in all First Class matches - 71
* The additional catch was for the Players against the Gentlemen.

As Anthony Bradbury writes in the 2012 Yorkshire Yearbook it is a record that may last into eternity because of the reduced number of First Class matches being played.

Philip thanked the Supporters' Association for making the presentation. He said that Yorkshire had a strong fielding side in all departments in those days. He himself stood in the slips...but if Fred Trueman was at short-leg and the ball was played behind the wicket he knew who would have to chase it to the boundary.

JAMES GREENFIELD

PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2011

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Yorkshire and England's Jonathan Bairstow received his award from Supporters' Committee member Veronica Denby, left, and Membership Secretary Joan Pickering during the county's early-season 2012 LV Championship match at Scarborough. Jonathan is holding the Shield which names the winners of the award over the last 24 years.