WYCOMBE star Isa Guha’s remarkable year just gets better and better.

After helping the England women’s cricket team to become double world champions last year, she was named British Asian Sports Personality of the Year in front of 3,000 guests at a plush ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel on Friday evening.

The 24-year-old said: “It’s been an amazing year and winning this just tops it off.

“I’d been nominated three times before so to win it was incredible and I couldn’t take the smile off my face all night.”

Guha played a starring role as England won the ICC World Cup last March, added the innaugural World Twenty20 a few months later and then followed up with an Ashes victory and a 4-0 ODI Series win over the Aussies.

She took Friday’s award ahead of the UK’s top badminton player Rajiv Ouseph and Harlequins rugby player Tajiv Masson.

Guha said: “When I got there all the cameras were on the rugby player. He was being introduced as the Sports Personality of the Year so I assumed he had won it and I just enjoyed myself and had a really good night.

“But when they starting announcing my award the camera panned on to me and I got really nervous.

“I hadn’t planned anything and suddenly I had to wrack my brains for something to say.”

Guha’s award was the crowning moment of the evening and for the next five hours the media spotlight was trained solely on her.

But she was quick to share the accolade with her England team-mates.

She said: “It is an honour to receive this award, but it is as much an award for the team as it is for me.

“We’ve had so much success in the last year and without them I wouldn’t even have been nominated.

“Personally this is a great boost but when you win as part of team it’s extra special. It’s something you have achieved together and you can share it with your team-mates.

“Nothing can compare to winning the World Cup, winning The Ashes and whitewashing the Aussies – which was almost unheard of.”

Guha’s award is another sign that, perhaps belatedly, the astonishing success of the England women is beginning to get the respect it deserves.

They were named Team of the Year at the Sports Journalists’ Association Awards in December, but otherwise have largely been overlooked by the national media.

She said: “This puts women’s cricket on the map and shows how highly it is regarded now.

“We’ve not always got the recognition we deserve, but the standard has improved, we’re winning games and there is a lot more interest in the game.”

Guha learned her trade with High Wycombe CC and made her Test debut as a 17-year-old in 2002, when she also won the BBC Asian Network Sports Personality of the Year title.

But she won’t have much time to celebrate her latest success.

She is part of the England squad flying to India tomorrow aiming to win a ODI and Twenty20 series there for the firt time, and then there is the small matter or defending their Women’s World Twenty20 title in the Caribbean in May.

She said: “We’re the best team in the world, but it’s going to be much tougher now because everyone wants to beat us.

“Personally, I want to keep playing as long as possible and would love to get to the 2013 World Cup. There are a lot of things still to do.”