Glen Chapple has signed a contract extension with Lancashire taking him up to the end of the 2009 season.
Chapple, 33, made his debut for Lancashire in 1992 and last season took 47 championship wickets at 21.85, including a career best 7 for 53 against Durham, at Blackpool, in September.
Maurice Chambers, the 20-year-old fast bowler, has signed a one-year extension with Essex to take him up to the end of the 2009 season.
Chambers, born in Jamaica, received British Citizenship in July and is continuing his rehabilitation from a lumbar-spine stress fracture which meant he missed most of the 2007 season.
However, he has made good enough progress to be a part of the ECB’s fast-bowling skills set at the National Cricket Centre in Loughborough for the second winter running.
“Last season was really frustrating for me because of my injury but I’m already looking forward to next season,” he said. “It’s going to be a crucial year for me because I will need to perform at my best
“When I start the skills-set at Loughborough on Monday I will be taking it gently but hope to be bowling flat out again by the time of Essex’s pre-season tour to Dubai in March.
“By the end of this new contract I aim to have done enough to be considered for the England A team and also to get my county cap.”
Lancashire youngsters handed contracts
Posted on 10/17/2007 in Lancashire
Allrounder Steven Mullaney and left-arm spinner Stephen Parry have signed one-year contracts with Lancashire.
For Mullaney it is his second professional deal and keeps him at Old Trafford until the end of the 2008 season while for Parry, who impressed in Second XI and club cricket last summer, it is his first full contract.
Seven players - captain Mark Chilton, Gary Keedy, Luke Sutton, Gareth Cross, Steven Croft, Tom Smith and Karl Brown - have agreed contract extensions to until the end of the 2009 season.
October 16, 2007
Ten Doeschate extends Essex contract
Posted on 10/16/2007 in Essex
Ryan ten Doeschate has extended his Essex contract by two years, to take him up to the 2010 season.
Ten Doeschate, 27, enjoyed his best year with the bat to date in the Championship in 2007, scoring 845 runs at 42.25 with three centuries.
“I’m happy to sign this contract because it shows Essex still want me and I’m part of their long-term plans,” he told the club website. “Now my sights are set on improving once more in 2008. My first goal is to work on my bowling – which I know I’ve said before but I believe I can still make progress with it – so that I can aim to score 1000 Championship runs and take 20 Championship wickets next season.
“In terms of one-day cricket I was happy with my bowling last season but need to produce more with the bat next year.”
October 5, 2007
Saggers extends Kent stay
Posted on 10/05/2007 in Kent
Martin Saggers has signed a contract extension with Kent which will keep him at the club until 2009. It means he will complete a decade at Kent after joining them from Durham in 1999. He was loaned out to Essex during the 2007 season, but ended with 19 wickets at 24 in the Championship as Kent narrowly avoided relegation from Division One.
October 3, 2007
Sussex sign two young players and keep Smith
Posted on 10/03/2007 in Sussex
Sussex have extended Tom Smith's contract for one year and have also signed two new young players, Ben Brown and Will Beer. All three players have come up through the ranks of the Sussex Academy.
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October 2, 2007
Thornely signs two-year Sussex deal
Posted on 10/02/2007 in Sussex
Michael Thornely has signed a two-year deal with Sussex. Thornely, the 19-year-old batsman, scored 800 runs in the Second XI Championship this season.
Their manager Mark Robinson said: "What has impressed us most is that he has grown in stature as a person as well as a player. If he continues this rate of improvement he will have a very bright future with the club."
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October 1, 2007
Derbyshire hand quartet new deals
Posted on 10/01/2007 in
Derbyshire have signed up a quartet of their bright young players on new contracts. Dan Birch, Chris Paget and Ross Whiteley have penned one-year contracts while teenage wicketkeeper Tom Poynton secured a two-year deal.
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Essex award nine academy contracts
Posted on 10/01/2007 in Essex
Essex have signed up nine players for their Graham Gooch Essex Cricket Academy. Harry Beddows, 15, is the only new recruit. Beddows, a wicketkeeper-batsman, has been awarded a one-year deal along with Michael Comber, Joanne Cook, Dominic Hurst, Alan Ison and Aaron West.
Meanwhile, fifteen-year-old legspinning allrounder Rishabh Shah has been given a two-year academy contract, while Jaik Mickleburgh and Adam Wheater have been handed two-year academy professional contracts.
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