Topklasse club Quick Haag has announced that 28-year-old Dutch international wicketkeeper-batsman Wesley Barresi will join them from VRA Amsterdam next season.

Barresi first came to the Netherlands as player-coach of Hilversum in the 2005 season, returning the following year to join VRA.

In seven seasons with the Amsterdam club he has played 118 matches in the top flight, making 2892 runs at an average of 27.54. He has also taken a total of 55 catches and nine stumpings, almost half of the former behind the stumps, although in club cricket he has often had to concede the gloves to his clubmate and fellow-international Atse Buurman; he has, however, also proved a useful change bowler, picking up 30 wickets at an average cost of 29.30.

South African-born, Barresi played for Easterns before moving to the Netherlands. Since making his debut in the Dutch side he has played 70 times for his adopted country, including ten Twenty20 matches.

Not counting the latter he has made 1424 runs at 24.55, his highest score a match-winning 97 not out against Worcestershire at Worcester in 2011. His unbeaten 64 was also crucial in the Netherlands� only victory to date in an ODI against a Full member country, against Bangladesh in Glasgow in 2010.

At Nieuw Hanenburg he will join Quick�s player-coach Amol Muzumdar, who went back to the top of the Ranji Trophy all-time run-scorers� list this week with two centuries in the same match for his new state Andhra against Himachal Pradesh, as well as his Dutch international colleague Tim Gruijters.

Quick has been a happy hunting-ground for Barresi: he averages 39.14 there, and it was there that he posted the highest of his four Topklasse centuries, 116 in 2011.

The Nieuw Hanenburg club have also announced that former international Edgar Schiferli will take over the captaincy next season, succeeding Henk Jan Mol.