Lashings ropes in Herschelle Gibbs

Herschelle Gibbs: Lashings beckons © Getty Images

Herschelle Gibbs has signed a three-month contract to play for the English club Lashings this season. Gibbs, who had represented Durham for the 2004 season, will start his stint in June, and joins a Lashings squad which also includes Chris Cairns, VVS Laxman and Phil Tufnell.

Andrew Fitch-Holland, the chief executive of Lashings, told South African Press Association that the club intended to rope in more big names for the season, making it "the most astonishing Lashings line-up ever". The club plays mainly 40-over games and a handful of Twenty20 fixtures, and lost only a couple of matches last season.

Lashings has a history of attracting plenty of stars to play for them - Viv Richards, Richie Richardson, Alvin Kallicharran and Brian Lara have all turned up for them in the past. Kallicharran is the current manager of the team.

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