Leicestershire 's Chris Wright has announced he will retire at the end of the 2025 season.

The 40-year old seamer, who came through at Middlesex before playing for Essex and Warwickshire, has been at Grace Road since 2019 and will depart with the club returning to Division One next season for the first time since 2003.

A veteran of over 200 first-class matches, he has the chance to move to 600 career dismissals before hanging up his boots. Wright will also finish with 202 dismissals across List A and T20I cricket.

By far the most productive period of Wright's career came at Warwickshire. On the verge of being released by Essex without a county in 2011, he was recruited to Edgbaston by bowling coach Graeme Welch and struck up a devastating partnership with left-arm seamer Keith Barker

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