Lancashire have announced that 39 year-old left-handed batsman Neil Fairbrother has signed a new contract that will keep him playing for the club for at least one more season.

Fairbrother made his debut for Lancashire in 1982. He was capped in 1985 and, two years later, made the first of his ten Tests for England. However, it was as a one-day player that he made his international mark with 75 appearances, the last of which came in the 1999 World Cup against India at Edgbaston. He averaged a shade under 40 in one-day internationals.

Last season he scored his 20,000th first-class run, and can boast an average of over 40 at this level. In 1990 he scored 366 against Surrey at the Oval – the third highest score ever in championship cricket. He was appointed captain of Lancashire for the 1992 season, but resigned from the post in 1993.

Mike Watkinson, the cricket manager at Old Trafford said: "I enjoyed being a team-mate of Neil's for many years and I am looking forward to him making many more significant contributions to the side next summer."

Fairbrother, who was named after his mother's favourite cricketer Neil Harvey, commented: "I am enjoying my cricket as much as ever and am looking forward tremendously to working with the new cricket management team under Mike Watkinson."

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