Three pieces of good news for Stuart Meaker. Not only was he named Surrey’s Academy Player of the Year at the county’s End-of-Season dinner but it was also announced that he had been offered a one-year contract with the club, the first OC to be contracted to a county since Nigel Paul at Warwickshire in 1955. A few days later Stuart was named in the England Under-19 side for this winter’s tour of Pakistan. On behalf of the whole club we congratulate him.