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Veteran bowler Ryan Sidebottom extends Yorkshire contract

Former England bowler Ryan Sidebottom, 37, signs a contract extension that will keep him at county champions Yorkshire until the end of the 2016 season.

Former England bowler Ryan Sidebottom has signed a contract extension that will keep him at Yorkshire until at least the end of the 2016 season.

The 37-year-old took 48 first-class wickets last term to help Yorkshire to the County Championship title and has 663 in total since debuting in 1997.

"To get to 700 wickets would be brilliant," Sidebottom told the club's official website.

"I am aware of that milestone and I would like to go beyond that figure. That's the challenge I've set myself."

The left-arm seamer, who took 79 wickets at an average of 28.24 in 22 Tests for England, joins Alex Lees and Steve Patterson in agreeing new deals at Headingley this week.

Sidebottom spent six years at Nottinghamshire in between his two spells at boyhood county Yorkshire.

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