Jack Home, 18, signs new three-year contract with Worcestershire

The 18-year-old has progressed through the Pears' pathway, having been with Worcestershire since he was just seven or eight years old.

Home put pen to paper to stay at Visit Worcestershire New Road through the end of the 2027 season following a successful stint in the Metro Bank One Day Cup campaign.

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Home received his promotion after injuries depleted the main squad, stepping in with a performance of 16 wickets across just five games.

The bowler's achievements include a 6-51 score in an away match against Derbyshire, the best List A bowling analysis by a Worcestershire player for almost two decades.

He also secured three-wicket hauls against Middlesex, Kent, and Hampshire this season.

Despite his achievements, Home has said he is not yet the finished article, and is looking forward to improving on a full winter's training.

He said: "Every day when you are there, you are learning something new, picking up something different, and all the players and coaches are there to help."

“Always listening to them, and they always got good things to say.

"It will also be good to have an entire winter of training, and I’ve got a lot of things in my game that I can work on.

“If I can have a full winter working on things, I think I can come back a better player for next season and use those things to try and help the club.

“Next year, I want to be vying to play as many games as possible in the first team and help win games.”

Head Coach Alan Richardson said: "We saw with Jack in the One Day Cup what an exciting cricketer he is.

“He has been with us for a little while now in terms of the Academy and through the Shropshire links, and we’ve kept an eye on him.

“We’ve lost a lot of our homegrown players over the last couple of years, especially last year, so we have to try and start that cycle again, and it feels Jack is a really good way to start that."