Gloucestershire stalwart Matt Taylor has signed a two-year contract extension, keeping him at the club until 2028.
Fifteen years on from his debut at the Cheltenham Cricket Festival in 2011, Taylor made 220 first team appearances for the Club.
A consistent performer across all formats, he has taken 236 wickets in red-ball cricket, 51 in List A, and 84 in the Vitality Blast. His outstanding performances in 2023 and 2024 earned him the GCCC’s Bowler of the Year award in consecutive seasons.
In the 2025 County Championship campaign, Taylor claimed 18 wickets in eight matches, including a crucial five-wicket haul away against eventual champions Leicestershire.
His best red-ball return remains an exceptional 2018 campaign, during which he claimed 46 wickets in 14 matches at 25.45.
Taylor, 31, led the attack in Gloucestershire’s run to the quarter-finals of the 2025 One-Day Cup, finishing as the team’s top wicket-taker with 14 scalps, his best return in a 50-over campaign.
He has been an integral part of Gloucestershire’s Vitality Blast history, and is currently fourth on the list of all-time T20 wicket takers for the club.
Taylor played a major role in the club’s first-ever T20 trophy, taking 29 wickets across 17 games at an impressive economy rate of just 6.91 when Glos won the Vitality Blast in 2024.
In 2015, he joined an elite club by bowling a T20 maiden at Chris Gayle, and in 2016 he helped Gloucestershire top their group for the first time in a decade with 15 wickets.
He said: “I’m really pleased to be extending my contract at Gloucestershire, it’s been my home for 15 years or so now, and it is a place that holds so many special memories.
“I’m excited about the next few years to see what we can achieve as a group. Having had a taste of success with the Vitality Blast win in 2024, it’s made me even hungrier to keep striving to improve and to try and contribute as much as I can to the club winning more trophies in the coming years.”
GCCC’s director of cricket, Jon Lewis, a fellow bowler and academy graduate, was equally as delighted with the new contract: “We’re delighted that Matt has extended his time at Gloucestershire, which we hope will take him into his 16th, 17th and 18th seasons at the club.
“A Gloucestershire man through and through, he pours his heart and soul into the Club and is a true team player, always willing to do the hard yards.”
“Matt played an integral role in our trophy-winning season two years ago, and we recognise his ability to contribute across all three formats. “We hope many more match-winning performances are still to come from Matt in the years ahead.”