By Mark Halliwell
WINNING PROMOTION to Division One of the County Championship has been on Mark Alleyne’s agenda from the moment he returned as Gloucestershire’s head coach in 2024 – but he knows that achieving a top-two Division Two finish this summer is more important than ever if he is to keep the county’s squad together.
Several players are out of contract at the end of the season, among them batting stalwarts James Bracey and Miles Hammond, all-rounder Tom Price and England Lions-capped pair Ajeet Singh Dale and Zaman Akhter, and Alleyne fears they ma...