George Garton: Warwickshire sign Sussex paceman on three-year contract

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Image caption, George Garton played mostly white-ball cricket in his eight years with Sussex

Warwickshire have made their first new signing for the 2024 season by signing Sussex left-arm paceman George Garton.

The 26-year-old, who won an England T20 cap against West Indies in 2022, has signed a three-year contract.

Brighton-born Garton has been with his boyhood club since under-10 level, but his only career success so far was with Southern Brave in the inaugural Men's Hundred in 2021.

Garton first worked under Bears first-team coach Mark Robinson, for Sussex.

"I am particularly keen to work with Mark Robinson having known him for a long time," he said.

"I feel my best years as a player are ahead of me and I retain huge ambitions in the game.

"The club have a tremendous record of winning trophies and I hope to contribute to winning more of them."

Garton has been signed to play both white-ball and red-ball cricket.

He has played only 26 first-class matches in eight seasons at Hove.

But he does have vast global cricketing experience in white-ball matches, having played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, for Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash, Joburg Super Kings in the SA20 and also in the Abu Dhabi T10.

He missed the 2018 T20 Blast final defeat by Worcestershire in 2018, but made it to Edgbaston with Sussex for Finals Day in 2021, when they were beaten in the semi-final by eventual winners Kent.

The Bears, who were without the injured Liam Norwell for all of last season and Craig Miles for a large part of it, as well as England all-rounder Chris Woakes, have lost three more pace bowlers since the end of the season.

Ethan Brookes has moved to Worcestershire, and