Australian bowler Wes Agar – younger brother of Australian Test international spinner Ashton Agar – set to rejoin Kent next season

Australian bowler Wes Agar is to return to Kent in 2024 as one of their overseas players, head coach Matt Walker has revealed.

Agar, younger brother of Australian international Test spinner Ashton Agar, played for Kent this summer. He initially was due to stay for four County Championship Division 1 clashes - but finished up committing until the end of July.

Walker, whose team secured Division 1 survival after a nerve-jangling final day of the summer thanks, in part to a draw against Lancashire, said: “Hopefully, we’ll try and get some quality overseases.

“We have signed Wes Agar already so he’s back for the start of the season.

“But it’s going to be tricky. With the IPL [Indian Premier League] and the World Cup, there’s going to be a very small pool of players that you’re going to get for any length of time. So we’re going to have to be pretty smart around what we get.

“This will be the core group. But we’ll work really hard.

“The boys have got a winter to work on what they want to do, what they need to do to improve, going and playing cricket around the world.

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“This is an exciting bunch of cricketers we have got here. That’s the bottom line.

“We know there’s talent. It’s a bit raw in some cases but they’re only going to get better and they’ll get better playing against the best players.

“Hopefully, the lessons learnt this year don’t go to waste and they have digested them, understood them, and worked out how they’ll get better.

“But there’s no lack of talent.”

Right-arm bowler Agar, 26, claimed a five-wicket haul away to Northamptonshire in one of just two red-ball wins this year - playing through the pain to do so.

“He’s an absolutely great man to have around,”