Worcestershire batter Rob Jones has announced he will retire from professional cricket at the end of the current season. 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. 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. "I'm immensely proud of playing 159 games and 11 seasons of professional cricket for both Worcestershire and Lancashire," Jones told the Pears' website., external"I've had some incredible memories with the Pears and with the Red Rose, ones I'll cherish forever." Pears head coach Alan Richardson added that Jones "epitomised what it means to be a hard-working professional" and "embodied the values of what it means to be a Worcestershire player".