STEVE Cook is the landslide winner of this season's prized Daily Echo/Micky Cave player-of-the-year award.

Cook has been a Premier League ever-present during a campaign in which his reputation has soared off the back of a string of exceptional performances at the heart of Cherries' defence.

He is the fourth defender in five seasons to land the coveted trophy, following in the footsteps of 2013 winner Tommy Elphick, and Simon Francis, who scooped the honour in both 2014 and 2016.

Some 50 per cent of fans plumped for Cook as Cherries' standout player in the Echo's online poll, with nearest challenger Joshua King claiming a 32 per cent share of the vote. Artur Boruc received seven per cent of the vote to finish third.

The award is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, with Third Division title-winning goalkeeper Gerry Peyton the inaugural winner back in 1987.

Keeper Boruc, meanwhile, has won the club's own supporters' player-of-the-year gong. The 37-year-old banked 79 per cent of fans' votes, albeit the savvy Pole teamed up with wife Sara, a television presenter and fashion journalist, to canvass support in his homeland.

The pair encouraged their combined army of social media followers – numbering hundreds of thousands – to cast a vote for the former Celtic stopper.

Cook and Boruc will be presented with their respective awards on the pitch before Cherries' Vitality Stadium encounter with Burnley tomorrow.