THE Portland and District Cricket Association honoured joint winners in the A grade Cricketer of the Year award, with Portland Tigers’ Will Hardie and Portland Colts’ Luke Evans sharing the league’s most coveted individual award.

Wednesday night’s count was close throughout, with Hardie gaining the edge in the early part of the season thanks to some excellent performances in the shorter formats, before Evans caught him up across the back end of the year, with the two finishing on level-pegging at 14 votes.