COUNTY ace Charlie Morris has set his sights on taking 50 wickets for Worcestershire in Specsavers County Championship Division Two.

The 23-year-old fast bowler worked on improving his stock delivery over the winter and is keen to add to his tally of 116 wickets in 37 first-class matches.

Hereford-born Morris toured South Africa with the MCC after claiming 44 victims for the County last summer in their relegation from Division One.

Morris said: “The benchmark for a bowler in Championship cricket is to get 50 wickets in a season.

"That’s the ultimate goal but you have to take each game as it comes.

“A lot of things can happen because it’s a long season and you have to keep putting in the performances on and off the field.

"But I would like to get to that benchmark of wickets and push for higher honours with the side towards the end of the season.”

Two years ago, Morris marked his breakthrough season by taking 52 Division Two wickets and helping them to promotion.

He said: “I have been working on my stock ball and trying to make it swing a bit more because that’s a good tool to have, especially towards the middle of the season when the pitches dry out and there’s not much movement off the straight.

"To have more swing in the armoury would be great and I am looking forward to putting it into practice.”

Morris says he learned a lot from playing in the top tier of the Championship last summer.

“It was definitely a step up in standard,” he admitted.

“Sides are a lot stronger with a lot more depth in bowling and batting and that is where we want to be playing our cricket.

“But, with just one team being promoted from Division Two at the end of this season, it will be hard to get back straight away.

“But we have to focus on trying to play good cricket and winning each session during the summer.

“If we can do that enough, there’s no reason why we can’t get into that top spot and go straight up.

"We have definitely got the squad and players to achieve it.

"Everyone in the camp is getting better each year and we need to put in good performances and show what we can achieve.”