Worcestershire batter Rob Jones has announced he will retire from professional cricket at the end of the current season.<\/p>\n
The right-hander has been with Pears permanently since 2024, <\/a>having joined the club on loan from Lancashire<\/a> for the One-Day Cup the previous summer when he hit a career-best 122 against Northamptonshire.<\/a><\/p>\n He was the first arrival under new chief executive Ashley Giles, who gave Jones his first-class debut in 2016 during his spell as head coach and director of cricket at Old Trafford. <\/p>\n The 30-year-old has predominately played 50-over cricket during his time at New Road, scoring 779 runs in 24 innings in List A games so far, including a second hundred for the county as he averaged 47.20 in the Pears’ One-Day Cup winning run last season.<\/a><\/p>\n Jones, who has not featured in the County Championship yet in 2026, has scored 593 runs with a top score of 90 in 18 first-class matches for Worcestershire.<\/p>\n He played in six T20 matches, with a top score of 35 not out.<\/p>\n In seven years with Lancashire, Jones won the County Championship Division Two title in 2019 and scored more than 1,700 red-ball runs with three hundreds and eight half-centuries from 46 matches.<\/p>\n