Bradninch have made three more signings as new skipper Daniel Hardy carries on building for a promotion push.
Ex-First Class professional Chris Metters, Charlie Walker and Laurence May have all come on board to add to the earlier signings of Luandre van Wyk and Josh Cann.
Metters was with Warwickshire for three seasons before his career was cut short by injury.
He played as a left-arm spinner for South Devon before moving to Edgbaston – and big things were expected of him after he took 30 wickets in 10 games during his debut season in 2011.
Due to a shoulder injury, Metters never got to fulfil that potential and retired from pro cricket in 2013 after an operation failed to solve the problem.
"Chris still can't bowl because of his shoulder injury and is coming to us as a top-order batter," said Hardy.
"He has a lot of experience in Minor Counties, second XI and First Class cricket and will be an asset to the team."
Walker, who will be 23 in May, went through the Somerset youth system and played a handful of second XI games before going up to Oxford Brooks and playing MCCU cricket in 2011 and 2012.
A middle-order batter and off-spin bowler, Walker joined the MCC Young Cricketers' programme in 2013.
He had three seasons with Herefordshire in the Minor Counties Championship.
While attached to the Young Cricketers' programme, Walker spent the season with Bromley, racking up more than 400 runs in the Kent League Premier Division.
Last season he played for Staffordshire side Milford Hall in Division Three of the Birmingham Premier League, scoring more than 700 runs at an average of 44.31.
May, was a Devon age-group batsman who graduated to adult cricket with Barnstaple & Pilton.
He had a spell with Braunton before moving to Sandford, playing seven times in the Premier Division last season.
May is a professional rugby player attached to Exeter Chiefs and currently on a season-long loan to Cornish Pirates. More signings are expected.
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