Gatting Signs On For Another Season

9 January 2012

Joe Gatting has signed a contract extension with Sussex.

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Sussex batsman Joe Gatting has signed a one-year extension to his existing contract at the County Ground, which will see him remain at Hove until at least the end of the 2013 season.

The 24-year-old said of the news, "I'm very pleased to have extended my contract. I'm excited about the next two years and hopefully I can continue my good form from the end of last season to make a big impact."

Sussex’s Professional Cricket Manager Mark Robinson added, "We're delighted Joe has committed himself to the club for a further year. In cricketing terms he is still quite inexperienced due to his time in football [he had three seasons with Brighton & Hove Albion], and we believe the best of him is still to come. The last third of the summer showed Joe's full potential when he scored his maiden Championship hundred and his first one-day hundred."

Overall Gatting scored 513 first-class runs last season at an average of 51.3, 277 one-day runs at 34.63, and 46 Twenty20 runs at 5.75, and hit three centuries in all. He also averaged 41.62 from five Second XI Championship matches.

The county have also announced that their supporters can follow their progress in the Caribbean T20, which begins at 2000 GMT tomorrow, via online ball-by-ball commentary on their website.

In one other piece of county news, Surrey CCC have announced the death of their former physio David Montague at the age of 80.

Montague spent 17 years with the club following spells with Middlesex CCC and Wimbledon FC. Club legend Pat Pocock said of the news, "During my 25 years playing for Surrey we were blessed with arguably the best two physios in the game, Monty and John Deere. Players from many counties, on occasions, would hide their injuries from their own physios until they came to Surrey, as they sought consultation from these two marvellous professionals!

"He was an extremely popular person and hugely respected wherever he went within the game and an enormous number of players were in his debt."

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