At the conclusion of the 2002 season, Lancashire County Cricket Club has decided to release Tim Roberts and Ryan Driver at the end of their 2002 contracts. This means that with the recent retirements of Graham Lloyd and Neil Fairbrother, the club will lose four players with immediate effect.

Subsequently, the county have signed four promising young players, previously on the club's scholarship scheme, on full contracts.

Sajid Mahmood, 21, from Bolton, who is a seam bowling all-rounder, made his Norwich Union League debut earlier this year. Mark Currie, 23, is an early order batsman from Cheshire who impressed against West Indies `A' scoring 48 before retiring hurt. The third player is Tim Rees who at eighteen years of age, is a pupil at Cannon Slade School in Bolton. A batsman, he will combine his `A' level studies with his cricket commitments. Finally, Steven Crook (also 18) is a fast bowler who last season played his cricket in the Huddersfield League and made an appearance for Lancashire in the friendly against Lashings CC.

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