FIVE Worcestershire players will spend the 2015-2016 winter months playing grade cricket abroad.

The LV= CC County Championship campaign may only have been completed a fortnight ago but the quintet are heading for warmer climes from October until early March.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore (Penrith Panthers), Tom Fell (Mount Lawley), Alex Hepburn (Willetton Dragons) and George Rhodes (North Canberra Gungahlin) will be playing in Australia.

Rhodes is playing for the side that Worcestershire all-rounder Joe Leach helped to win their first trophy for a decade last winter in the T20 competition.

Australian born Hepburn, who picked up six wickets in two Royal London One-Day Cup appearances, has spent previous winters appearing for Willetton.

Kohler-Cadmore, who signed a new two-year deal, had a spell two winters ago playing Down Under for Ad - elaide University.

The fifth Worcestershire player to go abroad this winter, Brett D’Oliveira, will be performing for South Africa side St. Augustine’s.