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Lancashire County Cricket Club have signed England one-day international Jos Buttler.

The 23-year-old joins Lancs after his contract expired with Somerset and he was quick to express how happy he was at the move.

"I am delighted to be joining Lancashire County Cricket Club," said Buttler.

"They have a strong squad and are very ambitious to build on this season’s achievement. I want to pay a special thanks to everybody at Somerset. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there and will leave with plenty of good memories."

The versatile Buttler also spoke glowingly about the standard of coaching and the facilities available at the county club.

"The club has an exceptional coaching staff which will help me to continue to develop as a keeper batsman.

"Emirates Old Trafford is a world class venue and has tremendous state-of-the-art facilities for cricketers. I really enjoyed playing there earlier this month for England and hope to be involved in next year's One Day International against Sri Lanka."

Buttler is likely to come in as first-choice wicketkeeper, although the Twenty20 international is also known as a big-hitting batsman.

Head coach Peter Moores said: "It is great news Jos will be joining us and he will become part of a highly competitive squad. His style of cricket will add value to the team in all formats of the game and his potential as a player is very exciting."