England full-back Mike Brown has pipped Brian O'Driscoll to the Player of the Championship award for this year's Six Nations.

Brown scored four tries for England and beat 25 defenders during a superb individual campaign which earned him 34 per cent of the public vote.

O'Driscoll finished in second place with 28 per cent of the online poll with his Irish team-mates Andrew Trimble, Jonathan Sexton and Rob Kearney finishing in third, fourth and fifth place respectively.