Durham have announced the signing of Australia batsman Cameron Bancroft for the 2019 county cricket season.
The opener is currently serving a nine-month suspension from all international and Australia domestic cricket for his role in the ball-tampering controversy at Newlands during the Australia-South Africa series earlier this year.
“Tom Latham has done a great job for us over the past two seasons but we anticipate Tom being unavailable due to the World Cup in 2019, therefore we were delighted to be able to bring Cameron in.
“Cameron is a talented top-order batsman and a great talent across all formats – he has the appetite and temperament for scoring big runs.”
Bancroft scored 82 in Australia’s second innings in the first Ashes Test in 2017/18 and averages 38.35 in first-class cricket, with a highest score of 228 not out.
