Ones to Watch - Freddie Fallows

Freddie Fallows may be a newcomer to National Counties cricket this season but the 19-year-old Cumbria has wasted no time in making an impression.

He took four for 10 with his left-arm spin on his county debut in a National Counties T20 match against Cheshire and followed up a match-winning 95 in a Trophy match against Oxfordshire at Kendal, his home club ground. 

Another half-century against Northumberland at Allendale helped to secure Cumbria a home quarter-final and a Fallows selection for the National Counties XI against MCC at Winchester.

Fallows played his part in a crushing win by pummelling a rapid half-century which helped National Counties build a mountainous total.

Fallows played his formative cricket at Bromsgrove School, where his father Dave - now Cumbria's performance director - was head of cricket.

He played Birmingham & District Premier League cricket for Bromsgrove and had his first experience of County Second XI cricket with Leicestershire last year.

Fallows put himself in the shop window by taking part in the second National Counties Player ID Day at Loughborough in March which was attended by coaches and scouts from first-class Counties.

He is now studying at Durham University and playing for Durham UCCE and club cricket for Kendal in the Northern Premier League, for whom his father also played.