Ben Stokes has been named the winner of the 2019 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
The award crowns what has been a stunning year for the England allrounder, one that saw him star in two of English cricket’s most memorable moments. Stokes was the Player of the Match in this summer’s World Cup Final and the scorer of 135* in England’s epic one-wicket victory in the Headingley Ashes Test – a result that kept the series alive.
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Stokes becomes the fifth cricketer to win the award and the first to do so since Andrew Flintoff took home the title in 2005. A number of English players and counties publicly expressed their support for Stokes on social media, using the #VoteStokes to encourage fans to lend their support to him.
Earlier in the night, England’s ODI team won the Team of the Year and the Moment of the Year awards, the latter of which was voted for by the public.
Stokes won ahead of Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton and World Championship-winning sprinter Dina Asher-Smith, who finished in second and third places respectively.
