Chris Read agrees new three-year contract

Chris Read: three more summers at Trent Bridge © Getty Images

Chris Read has agreed a new three-year contract which will keep him at Trent Bridge until the end of the 2007 season.

"Everyone would agree Chris is the best gloveman in the country, and his keeping this season has again been world class," explained Mick Newell, the director of cricket. "He moved up our batting order to show the England selectors he has what it takes and he's done that by scoring two hundreds and six half-centuries."

Read was dropped by England on the tour of the Caribbean in April, but impressed with his form for his country over the summer, scoring 807 runs at 50.43.