MEET THE NEW BOYS...

TOM WESTLEY

÷ Age: 28. County: Essex. Role: Batsman ÷ First-class average: 37.4. First-class high score: 254 v Worcs (2016). ÷ Scored 106* for England Lions against South Africa last month and put on a mammoth 243-run partnership with Alastair Cook for Essex against Hampshire in May.

DAWID MALAN

Age: 29. County: Middlesex. Role: Batsman.

First-class average: 38.09. High score: 182* v Notts (2015).

Malan has played for England already this summer, blasting 78 off just 44 balls against South Africa in last month’s T20 in Cardiff.

TOBY ROLAND-JONES

÷ Age: 29. County: Middlesex. Role: Seam bowler. ÷ First-class bowling average: 25.73. Best figures: 6-50 v Northants (2014). ÷ First-class batting average: 22.56. High score: 103* v Yorkshire (2015). ÷ Roland-Jones’s sensational hat-trick against Yorkshire at Lord’s for Middlesex last September sealed the county’s first County Championship triumph in 23 years.