WORCESTERSHIRE batsman Tom Fell has signed a new two-year contract and wants to be part of a club who have "exciting times" ahead.

Fell had one full year remaining of his existing deal but has put pen to paper at New Road until the end of the 2019 campaign.

It follows on from 19-year-old paceman Josh Tongue signing a new four-year contract.

Fell is one of Worcestershire's brightest prospects and in 2015 scored more than 1,000 County Championship Division One runs including a hundred against champions Yorkshire.

The former Oakham School pupil then bravely battled through two bouts of cancer before getting the all clear halfway through last season and announcing his return with an emotional hundred against Lancashire in the Royal London One-Day Cup.

Fell has encountered a challenging start to the 2017 campaign but is confident he is "one score away from things falling into place again" in the same way as with Joe Clarke and his two hundreds against Kent.

Director of cricket Steve Rhodes is delighted to have secured Fell's services for another two years.

He said: "Securing our better players is something we are always desperate to do.

"Although at this present stage (of this season) Tom has been in and out of the team he is a quality cricketer who is very much part of our future.

"I'm delighted he has signed. We all know his quality from when he got 1,000 runs in Division One only two years ago and the type of character he is with the way he battled against cancer."

Fell said: "It's nice to be able to commit myself to the club for another year on top of what I had left. It's exciting times for the club and it's good to know I'm going to be part of that.

"We are definitely heading in the right direction. A lot of guys we spoke about in the past as being young and with potential are starting to come good now.

"You can see that with the results. We had a successful 50-over competition and we are going well in the Championship as well.

"It is a good time to be at the club and the future definitely looks good. It's nice to know I'm going to be a part of that future and hopefully keep taking the club forward.

"It's been quite a tough season for myself personally. It's one of those things. Hopefully I'm just one score away and it should all fall into place again."

Hillingdon-born Fell, who made his first-class debut for Oxford MCCU four years ago, has scored 2,867 first-class runs at an average of 33.72 with five centuries and 12 fifties.

In List A cricket he has totalled 1,033 runs at 38.25 with one century and nine fifties from 31 innings.

Last summer Fell won the MCC Spirit Of Cricket award after signalling his foot had touched the rope when trying to stop a boundary in the Championship match with Sussex at Hove.