Pavilion honour for Hick

Worcestershire will honour Graeme Hick by naming the new £2million pavilion at New Road after the veteran batsmen.

The first phase of the club’s ground development scheme gets under way later this month.

Hick, 42, who will retire from county cricket at the end of the summer, has spent 25 seasons with Worcestershire, scoring 41,112 first-class runs at an average of just over 52.

Graeme Hick's name will adorn the new pavilion at New Road, which will be finished by next May

The current members’ pavilion has been in existence since 1899 and has needed renovation work on several occasions in recent years.

The new complex will be housed on its current site, with the original building eventually being rebuilt on the site of the existing ladies’ pavilion.

Crucially, the new two-floor complex will be built above flood level after the problems the club have experienced in recent years - and at present following flooding at the weekend.

It will incorporate new dressing rooms, cricket office, umpires’ room, players’ dining room and new physio-rehab facility.

Tom Graveney, who, like Hick, scored more than 100 first-class hundreds, will have the members’ lounge named after him.

Worcestershire anticipate that the project will be completed in late April or early May next year.