Warwickshire have signed Australia Test opening batter Jake Weatherald for the 2027 County Championship season. The 31-year-old has played six times for his country, making his debut in last winter’s Ashes series where he hit 201 runs, with a top score of 72 in Brisbane, as England were hammered 4-1. Weatherald joined Leicestershire for the
All-rounder Ollie Price has signed a two-year contract extension with Gloucestershire. The 25-year-old’s new deal will see him remain at the club through the 2027 and 2028 seasons. Price, who came through Gloucestershire’s academy, has scored more than 5,500 runs in all formats across his career and taken 93 wickets. “Ollie has come through our
Glamorgan director of cricket Mark Wallace said: “Ray Toole is a player with a similar skillset to Mir, who has been playing in our second XI off the back of an excellent domestic season in New Zealand. “To be able to call on him during this block as we try and manage workloads with six
England will play Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Lahore and Rawalpindi in a one-day international tri-series in October. Each team will play each other twice with the top two finishers meeting in a final on 31 October. It is England’s first ODI tri-series since a contest against Australia and India in Australia before the 2015
Somerset have bolstered their push for a maiden County Championship with the signing of New Zealand Test batter Henry Nicholls for the final six matches of the season. The 34-year-old bats at three for the Black Caps and scored a century at The Oval in June to help New Zealand to a 253-run win over
Warwickshire all-rounder Keith Barker has announced his retirement from playing with immediate effect. The 39-year-old started and ended his career at Edgbaston, either side of a spell with Hampshire. He rejoined the Bears ahead of this season on a 12-month contract but has only played two first-team games because of a knee injury, the last