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England batter Ben Duckett and club captain Steven Mullaney have signed new deals with Nottinghamshire.

Duckett, 28, scored 1,012 runs at an average of 72.28, including three centuries, to help Notts win promotion from County Championship Division Two.

He has agreed a new three-year deal, while 36-year-old Mullaney, skipper of the Division Two title winning side in the summer, has signed for two years.

"I want to contribute to further success," Mullaney said.

All-rounder Mullaney has made 429 appearances across all formats since arriving at Trent Bride in 2010, and has amassed 12,830 runs and claimed 334 wickets.

"The group that is being assembled now, there is no reason why we can't be hugely ambitious and strive to be at the very top in all formats moving forwards," he told the club website.

Duckett's form for Notts in 2022 earned earned him a place on England's current tour to Pakistan where he scored his first Test hundred in Rawalpindi.

"He is now getting the rewards for all the hard work he has put in," said Notts head coach Peter Moores.

"It was during the winter of 2019-20 that he totally committed to improving his own game and hasn't looked back since. He has become a key player for us in all formats."

Duckett joined the club from Northamptonshire midway through the 2018 season and has scored almost 4,700 runs in all formats of the game.

He was also the leading run-scorer for Notts Outlaws in this summer's T20 Blast with 396 in 14 games and played for Welsh Fire in The Hundred.

His international career began in Bangladesh in 2016 and he has so far played six Tests, three one-dayers and eight T20 internationals.

"I feel like my game is in a good place, which I suppose is largely the result of so much hard work over the last three or four years working on my technique, and leaning on the support of coaches at Notts," the left-hander said.

"I have tried to be as positive as possible, and that approach has been working well for me during the past couple of years.

"The role Notts has played in that has been massive; I've had the backing to go out and be positive, not fear getting out, and embrace the responsibility I've had at the top of the order."