Essex has signed fast/medium bowler Nick Denning on a one-year contact for the 2003 season.

Denning, 23, has played minor county cricket for Berkshire since 1999, and now joins the Club after after impressing the Essex selectors in the 2nd XI at Colchester.

Chief Executive, David East, commented:
"Nick clearly has great ambition and will undoubtedly strengthen the squad's bowling for next year. We wish him well for the future".

Denning was educated at Bradfield College - the school in Berkshire that has produced Hampshire's Will Kendall, former Hampshire captain Mark Nicholas and, before them, Surrey and England's Graham Roope.

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