Ahmed Named PCA Men's Young Player of the Year

Rehan Ahmed has crowned an outstanding 2025 season after being chosen as the PCA Men’s Young Player of the Year.

The Leicestershire all-rounder beat Glamorgan’s Asa Tribe and Sussex’s James Coles to the coveted honour at Exhibition White City on Thursday evening, becoming the first Fox to win the award since James Taylor in 2009.

It follows a spectacular summer for Ahmed, during which the 21-year-old scored 1,337 runs - including five Championship centuries - and recorded 52 wickets across formats.

They included a whopping 13-wicket haul and a crucial first-innings 115 as the Academy graduate set records tumbling during Leicestershire’s Championship victory over Derbyshire in July.

Such performances earned Ahmed five awards at Leicestershire’s End of Season Dinner last week, while he was also named in the PCA Men’s Team of the Year on Wednesday.

Toyota PCA Men’s Young Player of the Year, Ahmed, said: “It’s obviously a massive award, largely due to the players that have won it in the past, so to be shortlisted was amazing but to win it topped off a great season, especially being chosen by the players makes it even better.

“My red-ball season was great. To me, it’s more important than the white-ball stuff, so being given the opportunity to perform and then repaying the coaches with my form for Leicestershire has been great.

“I hadn’t bowled much because of our seamers bowling so well, but I said I wanted to bat up the order and for the coaches to say yes was a massive factor, because I take a lot of pride in my batting.”

Ahmed will now fly out with England for their white-ball tour to New Zealand before linking up with England Lions in Australia.