Who goes and to where..........

County movers

2018

Derbyshire

Derbyshire have signed Kolpak West Indian Ravi Rampaul from Surrey

Tom Milnes, Rob Hemmings, Ben Cotton and Tom Taylor have all been released over the winter at various times





Derbyshire have Mitchell Santner as overseas player for the second half of the season. And for the first half of the season have now signed South African Duanne Olivier.



Injury has scuppered Derbyshire's plans to use Mitchell Santner in 2018 by injury

Derbyshire have allowed Charlie Macdonell to leave ahead of the season (his current contract ran out at the end the season), so that the Durham student can pursue career options elsewhere.



Derbyshire have signed the highly rated Pakistani quick bowler Wahab Riaz for 10 Blast games

Derbyshire have signed Scotland's fast bowler Safyaan Sharif for this season's T20 Blast and ODC

Derbyshire have signed Scottish hero Calum MacLeod  and Kiwi Lockie Ferguson for the T20 Blast 

Derbyshire Falcons have replaced International bound Wahab Riaz with New Zealander batsman Henry Nicholls for the rest of the Blast competition.



Notts have signed Derbyshire's Ben Slater, initially on loan for the rest of the season and then on a three year deal starting next season.



Will Davis has moved from Derbyshire to Leicestershire on a two year deal

Gary Wilson has left Derbyshire, headed back to Ireland

Callum Broderick has been released.

All rounder Logan van Beek former Dutch international, now Kiwi has signed as overseas player















Durham

Graham Onions will leave Durham at the end of the season after not accepting a new contract. Onions then agreed terms with Lancashire , as has Keaton Jennings

Durham have signed South Africa's Aiden Markram and New Zealand's Tom Latham as overseas players for the 2018 season.

Markram, 23, will play atthe start of the season and play in the County Championship until May.

Latham, who also played for Durham last season, will then take over and captain the side in the One-Day Cup.

Durham have signed Indian One Day International spinner Axar Patel for their last six CC2 matches.


Imran Tahir has signed for Durham Jets, to play in their first nine T20 Blast games


Alex Lees, Yorkshire's former one day captain, has left the Tykes to join Durham on a 3 year deal, with immediate effect.

Durham have signed Cameron Bancroft as overseas player for 2019

Durham have signed old-boy Ben Raine on a 3 year deal
Paul Collingwood will retire at the end of the season.

Barry McCarthy has parted company with Durham, to concentrate on his Irish International career. BBC sport states that from September 2019 McCarthy would have been classed as a overseas player.

Essex

He might have retired from Test cricket but Alastair Cook today signed a new 3 year deal with Essex

Murali Vijay has signed for the rest of the season.

James Foster will retire at the end of the season.

Cameron Delport, who walked out of a two year contract at Leicestershire has signed for Essex Eagles for the next two Blast competitions.

Adam Zampa will also return to Essex for the entire Blast tournament.

Glamorgan

Billy Root has been released early from his Nottinghamshire contract and has signed a two year deal at Glamorgan.

Gloucestershire


Warwickshire have signed Gloucestershire pace man Liam Norwell  from the end of this season on a 3 year deal.
Stuart Whittingham has signed for Gloucestershire after he was released from his Sussex contract.

Hampshire

Jimmy Adams and Sean Ervine will retire at the end of the season

Keith Barker is set to leave Warwickshire, heading for Hampshire

Reece Topley has left Hampshire to pursue a career elsewhere. Topley is currently recovering from surgery (since July)

James Fuller has departed Middlesex and signed a two year deal with Hampshire

Hampshire have released three players; wicketkeeper Calvin Dickinon,  former Durham Asher Hart and Scottish International Chris Sole.

Kent
Matt Coles has moved from Kent to Essex on a deal that lasts until the end of 2019.

Kent have signed Heino Kuhn 0n a Kolpak deal, subject to visa. Matt Henry, has joined Kent for the first half of the season, as per Notts' deal with Kiwi Ross Taylor
 Kent confirmed their overseas quota with Kiwi Adam Milne and Australian Marcus Stoinis

Harry Podmore, unable to made a breakthrough into the Middlesex first eleven, has moved to Kent.
Will Gidman will retire from playing at the end of the season to take-up coaching. In the interim Gidman has taken over charge of Kent seconds in Min Patel's absence (with England U19s)
Matt Milnes has left Notts and signed a three year contract with Kent.
James Trewell will retire at the end of the season
Netherlands bowler Fred Klaassen has signed t o two year deal at Kent

Lancashire

Northants have "sold" fast bowler Richard Gleeson to Lancashire. Lancashire have made a "substantial" compensation payment to Northamptonshire for their in-contract player.
Simon Kerrigan, Karl Brown and Arron Lilley have all been released by relegated Lancashire
Lancashire have sewn up the majority of their Overseas options in 2019 with the signing of Australian pair Glenn Maxwell and Joe Burns.

Leicestershire

Chris Wright will move from Warwickshire to Leicestershire at the end of the 2018 season.

Durham have signed old-boy Ben Raine on a 3 year deal

Zak Chappell has signed a 3 year deal at Notts

Ned Eckersley, Rob Sayer, Tom Wells and Mark Pettini will not be having their contracts extended beyond the end of this season.

Will Davis has moved from Derbyshire to Leicestershire on a two year deal

Arron Lilley has signed a two year deal with Leicestershire

Michael Carberry has left by mutual consent

Cameron Delport has left Leicestershire, mid-contract.

Middlesex

Ravi Patel won't not have his contract extended at Middlesex when it expires at the end of the season
James Fuller has departed Middlesex and signed a two year deal with Hampshire

Nick Compton has announced his retirement

Northamptonshire

Graeme White has announced his retirement from First Class/red ball cricket, in order to extend his career with the white ball.

Ben Curran, the middle brother of the brothers Sam, Ben and Tom Curran, has signed a two year deal with Northants.
Ben Duckett will see out the rest of the season at Notts ahead of a 3 year deal at Trent Bridge
Rory Kleinveldt will leave Northants at the end of the season bound for South Africa

Northants have signed former Zimbabwe International Blessing Muzarabani on a 3 year Kolpak deal

Northants have "sold" fast bowler Richard Gleeson to Lancashire. Lancashire have made a "substantial" compensation payment to Northamptonshire for their in-contract player.
Northamptonshire's Steven Crook will retire at the end of the season

Northamptonshire have signed South African Temba Bavuma for the pre-Blast period of the 2019 season to play 8 CC2 games.

Pakistani Faheem Ashraf is set to sign for Northants for a two month stint during the T20 Blast

Nottinghamshire

Notts have signed Derbyshire's Ben Slater, initially on loan for the rest of the season and then on a three year deal starting next season.
Ben Duckett will see out the rest of the season at Notts ahead of a 3 year deal at Trent Bridge
Matt Milnes has left Notts and signed a three year contract with Kent.
Zak Chappell joins Notts on a 3 year deal.
Ben Kitt will leave Notts at the end off the season, when his contract expires
Notts have signed Worcestershire's Joe Clarke on a four year deal.

Will Fraine, having rejected a Notts contract and has signed a 3 year deal at his native Yorkshire
Riki Wessels has signed a three year deal with Worcestershire,

Billy Root has been released early from his Nottinghamshire contract and has signed a two year deal at Glamorgan.

Somerset

Adam Hose has agreed a move to Warwickshire

Jim Allenby, Michael Leask and Ryan Davies will leave Somerset at the end of the season, all for various personal reasons
Cameron Bancroft has signed for Somerset to represent them in CC1 and ODC competitions - replace with Matt Renshaw following his ban for ball tampering

Corey Anderson has signed for the Blast 

Somerset have signed Pakistan's opener Azhar Ali for the last seven championship games.

Somerset's Johann Myburgh is to retire at the end of the season - he only has a white ball contract.
Jack Brooks has signed a 3 year contract with Somerset from next season.
  Surrey


Derbyshire have signed Kolpak West Indian Ravi Rampaul from Surrey#

Mitchell Marsh has sighed as overseas player for 2018, International availability permitting.

Surrey have splashed the cash on a new Kolpak deal for Morne Morkel

Surrey, having seemingly limitless resources, have splashed the cash bringing in Virat Kohli in June, but now has cancelled with a neck injury - Nic Maddinson has been lined-up as replacement. for the T20 Blast. In the shorter term, Surrey have signed South African Theunis de Bruyn for two championship games, prior to the Blast.
Liam Plunkett has agreed a new 3 year deal from 2019 with Surrey. LP has hardly played for Yorkshire in 2018 so far due to International commitments.

Sussex

Ajmal Shahzad has been released

Angus Robson has joined the county
Steve Magoffin has moved from Sussex back to Worcestershire, on a one year deal
Chris Nash has ended his 26 year association with Sussex, asking to be released early from his contract, in order to take his career in a different direction. 

Mark Davis has left Sussex with mutual consent

Chris Nash has signed, as predicted, for Notts. The Sussex 34 year old stalwart signs on a three year deal.

Afghan, Rashid Khan will play the first half the T20 Blast with Sharks,

Ishant Sharma will be overseas player for the first 2 months of the season

New Zealander Tom Bruce has joined Sussex Sharks for the T20 Blast
Stuart Whittingham has signed for Gloucestershire after he was released from his Sussex contract.

  Warwickshire

Will Rhodes has signed for 2018 from Yorkshire
Adam Hose (Somerset) and Dominic Sibley (Surrey) have signed for next season on permanent deals, both will move on loan to Edgbaston for the rest of the 2017 season.
Victorian UK passport holder,  Ryan Sidebottom has signed for the rest of the 2017 season.
Rikki Clarke has signed for Surrey
Ateeq Javid will join Leicestershire at the end of the season

Will Porterfield will leave Edgbaston at the end of the season.

Jonathan Trott will retire at the end of the season

Chris Wright will move from Warwickshire to Leicestershire at the end of the 2018 season.

Warwickshire have signed Gloucestershire pace man Liam Norwell  from the end of this season on a 3 year deal.

Josh Poysden has signed a 3 year deal with Yorkshire, commencing from 2019.

Grant Elliott 39, now that the fat lady is singing at Edgbaston with Bears non-qualification for the knock-out stages of the Blast, has announced his retirement from competitive cricket.
Keith Barker is set to leave Warwickshire, heading for Hampshire
Andy Umeed and Sunny Singh have bee released by promoted Warwickshire

Worcestershire

Jack Shantry has been forced to retire under medical advice because of a back injury


Worcestershire have wisely secured the services for next season of Calum Ferguson, to play as overseas player in all three formats.

Steve Magoffin will retire at the end of the season.
Wayne Panell will turn Kolpak with a three year deal at Worcestershire from next season
Notts have signed Worcestershire's Joe Clarke on a four year deal.
Riki Wessels has signed a three year deal with Worcestershire,

Yorkshire

Will Rhodes has signed for Bears for 2018
 Ryan Sidebottom has retired

Yorkshire have sign Kane Williamson as overseas player, for a fourth time, sharing the role with Cheteshwar Pujara.

Billy Stanlake has signed as overseas player for this year's Blast

Billy Stanlake will no longer play for Yorkshire in the Blast 2018. Australia pulling the plug on the deal, wanting their man to concentrate on other formats. Stanlake currently has a broken finger which he sustained playing in the IPL
Andy Hodd is to retire at the end of the season
Liam Plunkett has agreed a new 3 year deal from 2019 with Surrey. LP has hardly played for Yorkshire in 2018 so far due to International commitments.

Alex Lees, Yorkshire's former one day captain, has left the Tykes to join Durham on a 3 year deal, with immediate effect.

Josh Poysden has signed a 3 year deal with Yorkshire, commencing from 2019.

Fellow NZ batsman Jeet Raval will replace injured Kane Williamson at Yorkshire for the remainder of the season
Jack Brooks has signed a 3 year contract with Somerset from next season.
Will Fraine, having rejected a Notts contract and has signed a 3 year deal at his native Yorkshire