Fast bowler Che Simmons, 18, has signed his first professional contract with Warwickshire, putting pen to paper on a three-year deal with the reigning County Championship winners.
Simmons went on trial with Warwickshire last year and was later offered a spot in their academy. The teenager was born and raised in Barbados, but holds a UK passport through his father and was recommended to the county by Barbadian Ottis Gibson, who worked as England's bowling coach alongside Warwickshire's director of cricket Paul Farbrace.
Simmons has been dubbed the 'new Jofra Archer', given Archer was also born and raised in Barbados before moving to England to play county cricket with Sussex. And Simmons has been tipped to follow in Archer's footsteps and play for England one day by Farbrace, who was England's assistant coach between 2014 and 2019.
