County Cricket Round-Up - 25th October

25 October 2011

Dimitri Mascarenhas has signed to play for Otago Volts in the HRV Cup.

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Derbyshire’s Second XI Player of the Year Matt Lineker has, in an interview with the club’s website, spoken of his desire to earn a regular place in the first team in 2012.

Essex have handed left-arm spinner Tim Phillips a new one-year deal but have parted company with young seamer Max Osborne. More

Gloucestershire and Ireland all-rounder Kevin O’Brien has collected the Walter Lawrence Trophy for the fastest hundred of the summer. Other winners on the night were Somerset and Durham University’s Chris Jones and Reading School’s Stuart Parsons. More

Hampshire all-rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas has signed to play for New Zealand side Otago Volts in their domestic Twenty20 competition. Their first match is on the 18^th December.

Former Middlesex and Sussex seamer Chad Keegan has been appointed cricket professional at The Oratory School in Berkshire.

Young Somerset all-rounders Craig and Jamie Overton have been selected for the England Under-19 Development Programme that will travel to South Africa this winter.

Sussex are likely to be without senior players such as Murray Goodwin and Matt Prior when they compete in the Caribbean Twenty20 in the new year. Michael Yardy will captain the side.

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County Cricketers Abroad Part III

With many of England's county cricketers now heading home from their off-season destinations in time for Christmas, we take our monthly look at how they have been performing for their franchises or states so far in the 2011-12 season.

Pietersen To Stay With Surrey Indefinitely

England batsman Kevin Pietersen has extended his contract with Surrey until the end of his international career. Pietersen, who first signed for the club on a one-year deal in 2011 following a loan spell in 2010, will play for the Brown Caps until he no longer has an ECB Central Contract.

Woakes Extends Bears Contract

Warwickshire and England seam-bowler Chris Woakes has signed a new two-year deal with the county which will see him remain with the club until at least the end of the 2014 season.

Ben Harmison Signs Kent Deal

Kent have signed former Durham all-rounder Ben Harmsion on a contract of undisclosed length ahead of the 2012 season.

Tomlinson And Rossington Extend County Contracts

Middlesex wicket-keeper Adam Rossington and Hampshire seam bowler James Tomlinson have both signed contract extensions with their respective counties. Rossington, an 18 year-old who has represented England’s Under-19 side, has extended his existing contract by one year to the end of 2013, while Tomlinson has also signed until the end of the 2013 season.

Philander Signs For Somerset

Somerset have tentatively announced that they have secured the services of South African all-rounder Vernon Philander as their overseas player for the first two months of the 2012 season. Philander's availability is dependent on him not being selected to play in the Indian Premier League.