Roland-Jones Pens New Middlesex Deal

13 January 2012

Roland-Jones will be spending the next three seasons playing for Middlesex.

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Middlesex seam bowler Toby Roland-Jones has signed a new contract with the club which will see him remain with them until at least the end of the 2014 season.

In 2011, the 23 year-old ended the first-class season with 26 wickets at an average of 26.31 and has taken 68 wickets for the club throughout his career. He was rewarded for this impressive start to his professional cricket career with a place on England’s winter Performance Programme.

Middlesex Director of Cricket, Angus Fraser, said of Roland-Jones’ new contract, “It is great for Middlesex CCC to have secured Toby’s services for at least the next three years. Like John Simpson, who signed a contract extension before Christmas, Toby is an extremely talented and hard-working player. These are the type of cricketers I want to build Middlesex’s future around. Hopefully he will be bowling for Middlesex CCC for the next ten years or more.

“Toby has come a long way in an extremely short space of time. This time two years ago there was a danger he may have slipped out of the game. He is now one of the most exciting young bowlers in the country; hence his involvement in this winter’s England Performance Programme. Toby has and continues to benefit from working with Richard Johnson, Middlesex CCC’s Assistant Coach and there is still plenty of scope for him to become an even better bowler. With Steven Finn looking more like an international bowler every week Toby is set to get the chance to secure a permanent place in our first team.”

In other county news Gloucestershire CCC have said that they are considering lodging an appeal against the rejection of their planning application for ground redevelopment work at Bristol, while hotel chain Premier Inn have submitted an application to construct a 120-bedroom hotel at the New Road ground in Worcester.

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