OPENING partners Adam Lyth and Alex Lees continued their domination of end-of-season awards last night at Yorkshire’s champions gala dinner at Elland Road football ground in Leeds.

Lyth won the Players’ Player of the Year award and the club’s Player of the Year award, while fellow left-hander Lees was named the Young Player of the Year.

The pair had claimed similar accolades from the Cricket Writers’ Club and the Professional Cricketers’ Association in London on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Lyth and Lees scored almost 1,700 runs in first-wicket stands throughout Yorkshire’s triumphant LV= County Championship campaign, and they were the county’s two leading run-scorers in that competition.

Lyth totalled 1,489 runs and Lees 971, with eight centuries between them. Both players have been named in England’s Performance Programme squad for a training camp in Sri Lanka next month, and Lyth is expected to graduate to the full Test squad for next April’s tour of the West Indies.

Lees has now won the club’s Young Player of the Year award for two years running, while it is the second time Lyth has scooped their Player of the Year award having done so in 2010 when he totalled 1,509 runs in the Championship.

Lyth only scored 2,034 in the 2011, 2012 and 2013 seasons combined, but he has returned to form with a bang this year.

“We’re thrilled to bits for Lythy because we know how hard he’s worked over the last couple of years,” said Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie.

“As a coach, that’s all you want to see.

“He got married, and maybe that settled him down. He came back last winter, did a little bit of batting before Christmas, went away, got married, went on his honeymoon and came back mid-January. The extra time away probably didn’t do him any harm.

“He’s worked with Simon Hartley, our sports psychologist, and that’s probably just clarified his mind.

“The big thing for all players - my take on it anyway - is that if a player is really clear on what his role in the team is, you’ve got a better chance of succeeding.

“Adam’s job is to go out there and score as many runs as he can. As a support staff and team-mates, we’ll back him 100 per cent to do that in whatever way he chooses.

“The way he’s improved for me is his reading and understanding of situations in the game and being able to adapt to it.”

Lyth, exceptional in the slips, also scooped the club’s Fielder of the Year honour after being the leading outfield catcher in either division of the Championship, with 35.

York ace Jack Leaning collected the Second XI Performance of the Year gong for a spectacular 102 off 54 balls in a T20 clash against Nottinghamshire at Trent College in May.

Chasing 196, the Vikings were 97-6 after 13.3 overs, but Leaning’s heroics ensured a win.

Leaning went on to impress in the Championship and one-day cricket for the first team shortly afterwards. He will return to Sydney for a second winter of grade cricket with the Sutherland club on October 20.

Eighteen-year-old all-rounder Ryan Gibson picked up the Academy Player of the Year award. He scored three centuries in their Yorkshire Premier League title triumph.