Adshead signs for Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire have signed Steve Adshead, a wicketkeeper/batsman, on a one-year contract as cover for Jack Russell.

Adshead, 23, was on the Leicestershire staff 2000 to 2002 - he played one first-class match in 2000 and a handful of one-day games - and moved to Worcestershire, the county of his birth, for 2003. He played two Championship matches last season after Steve Rhodes was injured, scoring 63 against Glamorgan at Cardiff, but then lost his place to James Pipe.