Jonny Bairstow, Nat Sciver and Harry Brook headline PCA Awards nominations

Bairstow, Brook, Will Jacks and Wayne Madsen have been nominated for men’s player of the year while Sciver is joined by Emma Lamb, Sophia Dunkley and Lauren Winfield-Hill on the women’s player of the year shortlist

Jonny Bairstow, Nat Sciver and Harry Brook are among the nominees for the 2022 PCA Awards.

Bairstow and Brook have both been nominated for the men's player of the year award alongside Derbyshire's Wayne Madsen and Will Jacks. Brook and Jacks are also on the men's young player of the year shortlist with Matthew Potts.

Emma Lamb, Sophia Dunkley and Lauren Winfield-Hill have been nominated for the women's player of the year gong alongside Sciver while Alice Capsey, Freya Kemp and Grace Scrivens complete the three-strong shortlist for the women's young player of the year award.

The award winners will be announced on Thursday, October 6.

^{Will Jacks has been nominated in two categories [Alex Davidson/Getty Images]}

Bairstow has recently been crowned England's Test player of the summer following a standout run of performances with the bat. The 32-year-old scored 681 runs at 75.6 in six appearances, including four centuries.

Brook, the 2021 young men's player of the year, made his T20I debut against West Indies in January and later made his Test bow against South Africa in September. Earlier in the year, he steered Lahore Qalandars to PSL glory while for Yorkshire, he scored 967 County Championship runs and 436 T20 Blast runs.

Both Jacks, who earned his maiden T20I cap against Pakistan, and Madsen excelled on the domestic circuit. The former won the County Championship with Surrey, scoring 648 runs and taking 17 wickets, and added a further 449 runs in the T20 Blast as well as scoring the fastest century in The Hundred.

Madsen, meanwhile, scored over 1,800 runs across all formats this season, including 1,134 runs in the County Championship for Derbyshire, and reached the final of The Hundred with Manchester Originals.

As for Potts, nominated in the young player category, he has lit up the Test arena following his debut against New Zealand in June, taking 20 wickets at 28 in five appearances. In just 10 County Championship outings for Durham, he added a further 56 wickets at 17.9, including career-best figures of 7 for 40.

^{Alice Capsey [Alex Davidson/Getty Images] and Grace Scrivens [Nathan Stirk/Getty Imags] are among the nominees for women's young player of the year}

One of four nominees for the women's player of the year award, Sciver scored her maiden Test century against South Africa this summer as well as scoring 188 T20I runs and 118 ODI runs, and taking four wickets. She was the women's Hundred MVP after scoring 228 runs and taking six wickets for Trent Rockets.

Winfield-Hill steered Northern Diamonds to their maiden Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy crown, scoring 470 runs and completing 13 dismissals behind the stumps, as well as winning The Hundred with Oval Invincibles.

Dunkley cemented her spot in the England team across all formats, scoring her maiden ODI century against South Africa and being named T20I player of the summer after scoring 197 runs at 39.4 against South Africa and India.

Lamb, meanwhile, scored 282 runs and took three wickets in ODIs this summer, as well as making her Test debut, and also impressed for both Thunder and Manchester Originals on the domestic circuit.

2021 women's young player of the year Alice Capsey featured in three ODIs and 10 T20Is this summer and led the run-scoring charts for England at the Commonwealth Games. In The Hundred, she scored 118 runs and took eight wickets to help Oval Invincibles to their second title.

Kemp, the youngest player on the shortlist at 17, made her Southern Vipers debut in May 2022 and finished the summer with two ODI and nine T20I caps to her name. She took six wickets for England at the Commonwealth Games, became the youngest England player to score a T20I half-century, and helped Vipers to Charlotte Edwards Cup glory.

Sunrisers allrounder Scrivens scored 438 runs and took 20 wickets across T20 and 50-over cricket, finishing the season as the leading wicket-taker (13) in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as featuring for London Spirit in The Hundred and England A.