Nottinghamshire Tie Down Hutton, Giles and Martindale

Nottinghamshire have agreed new terms with three of their players, and the most experienced of them is seam bowler Brett Hutton. He will stay at Trent Bridge until the end of the 2028 season, the club announced on 13 November 2026.

Hutton is 33. A seam bowler gets the ball to swing or move off the pitch by gripping and releasing it along the raised stitching, which is the seam. He has spent 13 seasons with Nottinghamshire across two spells and has taken 357 wickets for the county in all formats. In 2025, when Notts won the County Championship Division One title, he was the club's leading wicket-taker with 38. The Championship is England's top domestic competition, played over multi-day matches, so that season's tally came in the longest form of the game.

The club's other two announcements involve younger players. Tom Giles, a 20-year-old seam bowler, has signed a new two-year deal. He made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire last season and took five wickets in four Championship appearances. The club's own headline says his stay at Trent Bridge now runs until 2028.

Ben Martindale is 23 and an all-rounder, meaning he contributes with both bat and ball. He has played 32 times across all formats for the county. His new contract keeps him at Trent Bridge for a further 12 months. His father, Duncan, also played for Nottinghamshire, so the family connection to the club runs back a generation.

Giles and Martindale both came through Nottinghamshire's academy, the youth programme that trains local players for the first team. Keeping academy graduates on new deals gives a club continuity, and the three signings reach across the bowling attack and the batting order. Hutton's contract covers the seasons ahead, while the younger pair give the squad players who have already worn the badge at first-class level.

The announcements came in November, a quiet stretch of the cricket year when counties plan their squads for the next summer. Nottinghamshire have not, in these reports, said anything about team selection or fitness for the 2027 campaign, so those questions remain open. What the club has confirmed is that three of its players will be at Trent Bridge for the next few seasons.