Matt Lamb pens two-year deal with Derbyshire

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Middle-order batter Matt Lamb has signed a two-year deal with Derbyshire after ending his stint with Warwickshire.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club on Thursday (October 6) confirmed that Lamb will be joining the club from the next season onwards. 

Having spent his entire professional career to date with Warwickshire, Lamb has made his first move to another club. Lamb first joined the Warwickshire pathway programme at the under-nine level and went on to make his First-Class debut against Somerset in 2016.

In 2022, he made eight red-ball appearances, scoring 487 runs (two centuries, one half-century), and a further eight in the 2022 Royal London Cup (128 runs). He hasn't featured in the T20 Blast for Warwickshire since July 2021. The right-handed batter was instrumental in the team's successful campaign in 2021.

He has a First-Class best of 173 and a career red ball runs tally standing at 1,843, with three centuries and eight half-centuries.

Earlier, Pakistan's star batter Shan Masood left Derbyshire and moved to Yorkshire. Head coach Mickey Arthur has tried to fill Masood's void by including Lamb in their ranks.

Commenting on his move, Lamb said: 

"I leave Edgbaston with a heavy heart, but I'm incredibly excited for the next chapter of my career. I will be forever grateful and thankful to everybody at the Bears who helped and coached me from an eight-year-old cricket lover to a County Champion. I have made friends for life at the club and will always look forward to returning with Derbyshire. Mickey Arthur's project at Derbyshire really excites me, there's a talented group of players and the level of ambition is high, that's something I want to be a part of.

Derbyshire head coach, Mickey Arthur, believes Lamb's arrival will help the club push for greater honours, commenting: 

"Matt (Lamb) had a strong season in Division One and that's the calibre of player we want to bring to our Club. Signing a player with a good amount of top-level experience is an example of our intent. Our batting has been strong this year, but Matt's arrival increases that competition for places and reinforces our batting depth in all formats."

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