Phoebe Litchfield has added another feather to her cap after being awarded Cricket NSW's top female country player with the Alex Blackwell Award.
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The gong proved fitting not just due to Litchfield's phenomenal debut season in the Big Bash League and with the NSW Breakers but also for who it was named after.
Blackwell was at the other end during Litchfield's emphatic arrival on the national stage late last year, when she hit 52 not out for the Sydney Thunder in just her second Women's Big Bash League game as a 16-year-old and in the process becoming the youngest player - male or female - to raise the bat in the Big Bash.
She'd go on to add to her highlights reel in the WBBL while also making a splash in the WNCL as she carried her summer form over.
Litchfield posted an unbeaten 82 from 119 balls with 10 fours and a six to guide NSW to a thrilling victory over ACT at Hurstville Oval in January, the highlight in a stellar first season for the state side, finishing with 252 runs at 42 in her debut campaign in the WNCL.
Litchfield's teammate Hannah Darlington was named the Thunder's player of the tournament for the WBBL, while her Breakers teammate Rene Farrell was awarded the Belinda Clark medal in her final season.
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