Published: 2nd August, 2017

Surrey batsman Dominic Sibley has today informed the club that he will be leaving at the end of the season to join Warwickshire.

Sibley, 21, first played for Surrey at U9 level and has since come through the Academy system. He was first offered a three-year deal at the end of last season – which has remained on the table for the entirety of this summer, but has now been turned down.

Being in the last year of his contract, under ECB regulations he is permitted to speak to other counties about potential opportunities. He has spoken to a number of other clubs and today informed Surrey he would be signing for Warwickshire.

Surrey CCC Director of Cricket, Alec Stewart, said: “Dom was offered a very good three-year contract but has told me the reason he is leaving is that he feels his opportunities at Warwickshire would be greater, given the written assurances he has received that he will be batting in the top three in all forms of the game next year.

“In performance sport, this was not something that I was prepared to do – for him or any of our players – as we will always select the best possible XI for each occasion and it would be wrong to give anyone these guarantees.

“We’ve had numerous conversations with Dom and his advisors over the last eleven months and I’m comfortable in knowing that we could not have done any more in showing how much we wanted him to be a big part of this club.

“We believe we were moving Dom in the right direction and are bitterly disappointed he has chosen to leave us at this stage of his career.”

This season, Sibley has played seven of the eight Specsavers County Championship matches, averaging 33, with no centuries and four fifties. He started four of the ten games played in the Royal London One Day Cup and has so far played every match of the NatWest T20 Blast campaign.