Cricket correspondent Mark Pennell will help present one of the game’s most prestigious awards this summer.

The 40-year-old former wicketkeeper batsman from Larkfield has been invitedonto the Cricket Writers’ Club awards’ sub-committee.

The Kent Messenger Group correspondent will join a five-man committee, chaired by Pat Gibson, who writes on football and cricket for The Times.

The other members of the committee are former England all-rounder Derek Pringle, now cricket correspondent for The Independent, freelance cricket and rugby writer David Llewellyn and cricket correspondent to the Yorkshire Post, Robert Mills.

The committee will adjudicate the club’s Peter Smith Award, named in honourof the late Daily Mail cricket writer, presented for outstanding services in the presentation of cricket to the public.

Previous winners have been David Gower, Brian Lara, Steve Waugh, MarkTaylor, the Sri Lankan cricket team, Angus Fraser and former cricketcorrespondent with The Times, John Woodcock.

Pennell joined the KM group in 1993 and was Shepherd Neame Kent SportsJournalist of the Year in 2000.

Steve Constable, sports editor of the KM Group’s weekly papers, said: “It is clearly quite an honour for Mark to be invited to join this committee. It indicates that his knowledge and judgement of the sport are highly respected by his peers.”

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