The left-arm slow bowler has joined forces with the Sussex League division-four club to continue his playing career and also continue his good work and passion of developing young players. The Birdham-based team’s skipper George Coles said: “The commitment from Raj will focus on providing higher-calibre cricketers from the youth teams and so provide quality players for the senior squads for many years to come.” They’re the second local club to announce a county-level signing this week. Middleton will field Angus Robson, a batsman who has been given a season’s trial at Sussex CCC after being releaesed by Leicestershire. Local cricket cup and league action begins on Saturday, April 29, though some teams do not start until a week later. See the Chichester Observer on April 27 for the first part of our season’s local cricket preview - and follow all the action all summer in the paper and on this website. Don’t miss out on all the latest breaking sports news where you live. Here are four ways you can be sure you’ll be among the first to know what’s going on. 1 Make this website your homepage 2 Like our Facebook page at facebook.com/pages/Sport-Sussex 3 Follow us on Twitter @SportSussex 4 Register with us by clicking on ‘sign in’ (top right corner). You can then receive our daily newsletter AND add your point of view to stories that you read here. Share with your family and friends - so they don’t miss out!