15-07-2025
EXCLUSIVE Durham snap up future England star, depleted Gloucestershire sign prolific seamer, Somerset hit by exodus and the players that vultures circling cash-strapped Yorkshire want: COUNTY CRICKET TRANSFERS
One of a trio of tyro pace bowlers being monitored by England has agreed to move the length of the country for 2026.
Archie Bailey, 20, comes from sporting stock as the son of Kim Bailey, the first race horse trainer to complete the hat-trick of saddling winners at the Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National, but has been tempted away from Gloucestershire, and the family's Thorndale Farm stables, by Durham.
