Steel agrees new contract with Durham
DURHAM Cricket have announced that promising all-rounder Scott Steel has signed a new one-year deal with the club.
Veteran bowler Nathan Rimmington has also agreed to a new T20 contract to remain at Emirates Riverside in 2020.
Steel, 20, made a name for himself in the white-ball formats in 2019, opening the batting in both the Royal London One-Day Cup and the Vitality Blast.
He amassed 596 runs in the two formats with two half-centuries in each competition.
In addition, Steel added valuable overs of off-spin – particularly in the Blast – taking five wickets at an average of 19.80 and a low economy rate.
He also earned himself a firstclass cap in September when he made his Specsavers County Championship debut against Middlesex at Lord’s.
Rimmington, 36, has re-signed for the club on a T20 deal.
A star with the ball in the Blast in 2019, he took 16 wickets at an average of 19.06 – his form earning him opportunities to play for the Karnataka Tuskers in the Abu Dhabi T10 and the Northern Superchargers in The Hundred next summer.
Five other Durham players - Sol Bell, Jack Campbell, Josh Coughlin, Oliver Gibson and Michael Jones have also signed rookie deals with the county.
■JAMES Vince hopes to capitalise on the absence of several firstteam players in New Zealand after propelling England to a comfortable seven-wicket victory in their Twenty20 opener against the Kiwis.
Durham’s Ben Stokes is one of a number of England’s World Cup heroes rested from the five-match series.
The all-rounder watched on as Vince’s elegant 59 from 38 balls helped the tourists overhaul New Zealand’s modest 153-5 in Christchurch.
The second of the T20 clashes is in Wellington tomorrow.