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Olly Stone signs Nottinghamshire deal

Sarita Dey
2 years ago

Olly Stone, the England fast bowler, will join Nottinghamshire at the end of the season. Maybe Stone has already played his last game for Warwickshire after suffering a finger injury, which has ruled him out for at least a month.

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Olly Stone signs Nottinghamshire deal

Notts agreed to a three-year, all-format deal

Stone’s contract talks with Warwickshire broke down. Because of the club’s reluctance to offer him a multi-year deal keeping in mind his injury history. While Notts agreed to a three-year, all-format deal, which will run until the end of the 2025 season.

“I have always had good games against Nottinghamshire. And I love playing at Trent Bridge,” Stone said. “It is a great ground, and when the option came up to make it my home, it was really exciting.

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Stone has had another frustrating year with injuries

Stone has had another frustrating year with injuries, recovering from a stress fracture he suffered last summer to play ten games in the Blast, taking 13 wickets and bowling at a good pace. There was an outside chance that he would have played against Surrey this week in what would have been his first first-class game in over a year. But he was injured during a second-team game this week with a suspected broken finger – an injury which looks set to rule him out of his £100,000 contract with Birmingham Phoenix in the Hundred.

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“He got an injury on the third day and has broken a finger so he’s going to be out for a period of time,” Mark Robinson, Warwickshire’s coach, told BBC West Midlands. “For a bloke who has had a lot of injuries to have another one now after all the work he had done… suddenly to be out for six weeks or four weeks with this break in his finger, it’s heartbreaking for him.”

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