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New Year Honours list: Stokes and Morgan rewarded for World Cup heroics
ENGLAND duo Ben Stokes and Eoin Morgan are among the sporting superstars on the New Year Honours list.
The pair have been rewarded for their incredible efforts after England won their first ever Cricket World Cup this summer.
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Stokes, newly-crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year, has been awarded an OBE after he grabbed the headlines in a dramatic summer of cricket.
The 28-year-old scored an unbeaten 84 as England became world champions with victory over New Zealand before he produced a match-winning 135 not out in the third Ashes Test at Headingley.
One-day international captain Morgan, 33, gets a CBE and teammates Root, 28, and Jos Buttler, 29, become MBEs.
Morgan, 33, said: "I'm very proud to have been awarded a CBE.
"Winning the World Cup has been a dream come true and the honours and awards that have come since that day at Lord's really mean a lot to everyone connected with the team.
"The events of that day at Lord's were the result of many years of hard work and dedication.
"I see this honour - and the honour for my team-mates - as honours for the whole team, for everything they put into winning that tournament and getting over the line."
Aussie coach Trevor Bayliss, 57, is made an OBE and Clive Lloyd, 75, a former West Indies team captain, sees his CBE upgraded to a knighthood for services to the game.
England midfielder Jill Scott, 32, who also receives an MBE for services to women's football, said she initially feared the serious-sounding phone call was to do with a parking fine.
She said: "I had a phone call when I was in Marks & Spencer. I nearly dropped all my Christmas decorations.
"I thought I was in trouble at first, I thought I hadn't paid a car parking fine or something."
Susan Campbell, director of women's football at the Football Association, becomes a dame for services to sport.
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Taekwondo champion Jade Jones, who received an MBE in 2013 in the wake of her initial Olympic triumph, has been upgraded to an OBE in recognition of another stellar year at the top of her sport.
Having retained her Olympic title in Rio in 2016, Jones finally claimed an elusive first world title in Manchester in May and will target a third straight Olympic crown in Tokyo next year.
Olympic bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton also received an MBE.
Full list of sporting honours
Knighthood
Clive Lloyd for services to cricket
Order of the British Empire, Dame (DBE)
Sue Campbell, Football Association director of women's football, for services to sport
GCVO
Sir Michael Oswald KCVO, National Hunt racing adviser
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Colin Graves, England and Wales Cricket Board chairman, for services to cricket
Eoin Morgan, England one-day international cricket captain, for services to cricket
Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Trevor Bayliss, former England cricket head coach, for services to cricket.
Wilma Erskine-Heggarty BEM, former club secretary Royal Portrush Golf Club, for services to tourism and to golf in Northern Ireland
Nicky Henderson, five-time British jump racing champion trainer, for services to horse racing
Dr Rod Jaques, director of medical services at the English Institute of Sport, for medical services to Olympic and Paralympic sport
Jade Jones, double Olympic gold medallist, for services to taekwondo and to sport
Catriona Matthew, 2019 Solheim Cup European team captain, for services to golf
Rosemary Mayglothling, for services to rowing and gender equality in sport
Martin McElhatton, for services to disability sport
Paul Nicholls, 11-time British jump racing champion trainer, for services to the horse racing industry
Ben Stokes, England all-rounder, for services to cricket
Member of the British Empire (MBE)
Jane Allen, British Gymnastics chief executive, for services to gymnastics
Francis Benali, for services to cancer patients in the UK
Jos Buttler, England cricketer, for services to cricket
Vivien Currie, chief executive of Hamilton Park racecourse
Capt Guy Disney, for services to horse racing to polar expeditions and to veteran's charities
Loren Dykes, for services to women's football in Wales
Serena Guthrie, England netball captain, for services to netball
Lynn Hammersley, for services to gymnastics to fitness and to the community in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
Michele Hammond, for services to elite sport
Joanne Harten, England netball player, for services to netball
Aaron Hughes, Northern Ireland defender, for services to football
Timothy Hutchinson, for voluntary services to football on North Tyneside
Lizzie Jones, for services to rugby league football and to charity
Alan Knott, England wicketkeeper, for services to cricket.
Gabby Logan, for services to sports broadcasting and to the promotion of women in sport
Dr Michael McKillop, for services to disability awareness and to athletics in Northern Ireland
Laura Massaro, England squash player and three-time Commonwealth Games silver medallist, for services to squash
Barry Middleton, England international, for services to hockey
Dave Morgan, Welsh weightlifter with 12 Commonwealth Games medals, for services to weightlifting
David Muir, for services to racehorse welfare
Mike Nicholas, Wales Rugby League president, for services to rugby league in Wales
Rose Reilly, for services to women's football
Joe Root, England cricket Test captain, for services to cricket
Alasdair Ross, skiing instructor, for services to skiing
Jill Scott, Manchester City and England midfielder, for services to women's football
Kelly Sotherton, double Olympic bronze medallist in heptathlon for Great Britain, for services to track and field athletics and to the promotion of women's sport
Andy Tapley, for services to hockey
Craig Thomson, founder of Craig Thomson scholarship award, for services to football and to charity in Scotland
British Empire Medal (BEM)
Margaret Allan, services to curling
Rayburn Bainbridge, volunteer at ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, for services to sport
John Barclay, for services to British Road Cycling
Frank Clement, Olympic 1500m finalist, for services to athletics in Scotland
Keith Cook, Warwickshire CCC cricket operations manager, for services to cricket
Christopher Day, for services to adaptive skiers
George Evans, for services to table tennis in Wales
Kenneth Forrest, for services to sport and to young people in Birmingham
Mark Frost, community projects manager at Glamorgan CCC and development manager at Cricket Wales, for services to cricket
Yashmin Harun, for services to female black Asian and minority ethnic representation in sport
Leslie Jones, for services to the community in Tameside through fencing
Letty Lucas, for services to tennis and to charity in Northern Ireland
Barry MacAulay, for services to disability sport
George Mace, for services to sport and to the community in Northern Ireland
Connor McCarroll, for services to running and to charity in County Tyrone
Bernard McComiskey, for services to boxing and to the community in Gilford, County Down
John McIlrath, for services to sport in Northern Ireland
Michael Moffitt, for voluntary service to the sport of canoe polo
Barry Newton, for services to grassroots football and to young people in Derbyshire
Rajiv Ouseph, for services to badminton in Great Britain and the promotion of sport within the British Asian community
Heather Platt, for services to sports development in Northern Ireland
Afzal Pradhan, volunteer at ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, for services to cricket
Gilbert Preece, for services to football and to the community in Bentley and Darlaston, West Midlands
Helen Reddy, for services to educational gymnastics in Devon
Brian Reid, for services to rugby in Northern Ireland
John (Jack) Reid, for services to sport in Northern Ireland
Geoffrey Rofe, for services to badminton and young people
Christopher Sheldon, volunteer at ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, for services to cricket
Marvyn Stewart, volunteer in Dunfermline Athletic supporters' club shop and tea room, for services to football and to the community in Dunfermline
Margarita Sweeney-Baird, founder and chair Inclusive Skating, for services to skating
Peter Thomas, for services to grassroots cricket in Norfolk
Michael Todd, for services to horse racing and to business in Northern Ireland
Juliet Wiles, volunteer at ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, for services to cricket
Overseas list
Order of St Michael and St George Knight Commander (KCMG)
Gordon Greenidge, for services to cricket and to the development of sport
Godfrey Kelly CMG, for services to business and to sport
MBE
Karl James, for services to sailing and to national development
OBE
Conde Riley, for services in the field of sport and in particular cricket administration
BEM
Carlos Lewis, for services to sport
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