England prospect Will Smeed has signed a new white-ball-only deal with Somerset in what could be a ground-breaking move for the sport.
Smeed has never played a professional first-class match, but first hit the headlines back in 2018 as a 16-year-old when he scored a hundred alongside England legend Marcus Trescothick in a Somerset Second XI game.
Since then, Smeed has excelled in the shorter formats, starring for Somerset in the T20 Blast, scoring the first-ever century in The Hundred for Birmingham Phoenix and earning overseas franchise gigs in the Pakistan Super League, Abu Dhabi T10 and the new ILT20.