Nottinghamshire and England striker Ben Duckett has signed a new three-year contract with the club.
The 28-year-old scored 1,012 carries at an average of 72.28, including three centuries, to help Notts win promotion from the Second Division of the County Championship.
It earned him a place on England’s current tour of Pakistan and he scored his first Test cent in Rawalpindi.
“He’s now getting the rewards for all the hard work he’s put in,” Notts head coach Peter Moores said.
“It was in the winter of 2019-20 that he became totally committed to improving his own game and hasn’t looked back since. He’s become a key player for us in every format.”
Duckett joined the Northamptonshire club midway through the 2018 season and scored nearly 4,700 points across all game formats.
He was also the Notts Outlaws’ top scorer in this summer’s T20 Blast with 396 in 14 games and played for Welsh Fire in The Hundred.
His international career started in Bangladesh in 2016 and he has so far played six Tests, three rounds and eight T20 internationals.
“I feel like my game is in the right place, which I guess is largely the result of so much hard work over the past three or four years working on my technique and leaning on on the support of the Notts coaches,” said the left-handed master.
“I’ve tried to be as positive as possible, and that approach has worked well for me over the past two years.
“The role Notts played in that was huge; I had the support to come out and be positive, not be afraid to come out and take the responsibility that I had at the top of the order.”
