Opener Ben Compton capped an incredible first full season at Kent, winning three awards - including being voted player-of-the-year - at their end-of-season awards night.

Compton signed for Kent on a two-year contract last October and has shone this summer.

The 28-year-old had already scored more than 1,000 County Championship Division 1 runs by July, which included hundreds in his first three first-class innings as a Kent player, and chipped in with five half-centuries on Kent Spitfires’ way to Royal London One-Day Cup glory.

Overall in the County Championship, he scored 1,193 runs, including four centuries, at an impressive average of 54.22.

Prior to joining Kent last year, Compton, the cousin of former England opener Nick Compton and the grandson of the great Denis Compton, had played for Kent previously - but only for the 2nds.

As well as being voted player-of-the-year as he claimed 35.9% of the total votes, with the winner decided by Kent members and supporters, Compton also won men’s batter-of-the-year and the players’ player-of-the-year gong.

Bowler Nathan Gilchrist claimed two awards, winning young player-of-the-year and bowler-of-the-year at the event on Friday night at The Spitfire Ground in Canterbury.

The 22-year-old played a crucial role in helping Kent to Division 1 survival late in the season with six wickets in the win against Hampshire - their last away fixture of the campaign - and eight scalps in the victory at home to Somerset. Dogged by the fear of relegation through most of the summer, those victories helped Kent eventually finish fifth.

Experienced batting all-rounder Joe Denly was crowned Spitfires One-Day player of the season.

Denly, 36, missed Kent’s first three Royal London One-Day Cup matches this summer through injury but his return coincided with the team’s upturn in fortunes as he averaged just under 42 and collected eight wickets.

Last month Denly struck a 69-ball 78 in the final against Lancashire at Trent Bridge.

Despite struggling in the defence of their T20 Blast title, Denly also blasted a 58-ball 110 in a rare group-stage win over Middlesex by 55 runs.

Having impressed with bat and ball, off-spinner Hamid Qadri, still only 21, was named emerging player-of-the-year.

He hit a career-high 87 as Kent made 492 on their way to a big victory in their final County Championship match this term against Somerset and took a career-best in the Royal London One-Day Cup of 4-36 against Northamptonshire as well as 6-129 in County Championship Division 1 against Lancashire in April.

Fielder-of-the-year went to Alex Blake who, not only helped Kent win the One-Day Cup, but also saw Hayes to double success at club level. They won the Kent League Premier Division and the Kent League T20 Cup.

For the men, head coach Matt Walker chose Kent winning the One-Day Cup for the first time since 1974 as men’s moment-of-the-year.

In the women’s awards, Grace Scrivens took home two awards.

The all-rounder was named both player-of-the-year and players’ player-of-the-year for a second season in a row.

Another to collect two awards on the night was Ryana MacDonald-Gay, 18, who won bowler-of-the-year and young player-of-the-year.

She took the most wickets this year and provided invaluable runs in the lower-middle order across both formats.

Alice Davidson-Richards, who became the first England player since WG Grace to score a hundred and take a wicket on her Test debut, against South Africa, took a hat-trick in a match against Hampshire. That was Kent Women’s moment-of-the-year, as selected by head coach Dave Hathrill.

Phoebe Franklin won batter-of-the-year, emerging player-of-the-year went to talent pathway graduate Alice Grant and 18-year-old Sydney Gorham was crowned fielder-of-the-year.