Finn Gordon _(Image: Mike Vimpany)_
SEVENTEEN-year-old Finn Gordon has celebrated a run strewn summer by being named ECB Southern Premier League and Dorset Young Cricketer of Year.
The talented left-hand opening batsman played a lead role in Hampshire Academy's maiden Premier League championship triumph, scoring 651 runs, including four fifties and hitting 128 against Bashley (Rydal)(128) and later taking 105 off the St Cross Symondians bowling attack.
For good measure, his developing spin bowling was rewarded with 18 league wickets.
Gordon, whose elder brother Jacob scored over 600 runs for Bashley (Rydal), also made his mark for Dorset in the National Counties Championships - a top score of 123 against Wales NC at Ebbw Vale in August.
Finn's aggregate 302 runs in six knocks for Dorset took his season's tally to 1,439 in competitive cricket. He hit three hundreds and nine half-centuries.
He also played regularly for Hampshire Second XI and in August was selected to play in the prestigious ECB Under-18 Elite Player Development regional tournament at Loughborough.