This year’s Walter Lawrence Trophy, awarded for the fastest hundred of the season, has been won by Kent’s Darren Stevens.

Stevens battered a blistering 44-ball century against Sussex in the Yorkshire Bank 40 match at Canterbury on June 19th.

The 37-year-old hit 10 fours and six sixes en route to three figures as Kent overhauled a mammoth total of 336 for five with nine balls unused.

A consistent match-winner with bat and ball, Stevens finished with 118 off 53 balls and chipped in with two key wickets.

Only Scott Styris has managed a quicker hundred among the list of trophy winners. Styris struck a 37-ball hundred for Sussex last year.

Stevens will receive a cheque for £3,000 at the Walter Lawrence Trophy presentation dinner in The Long Room at Lord’s on October 15.

Now in its 79th year, the Walter Lawrence Trophy is open to all domestic county competitions as well as one-day internationals, Twenty20 internationals and Test matches in England.

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