Star all-rounder David Taylor is leaving Banbury to join their fierce Home Counties Premier League rivals High Wycombe.

The 26-year-old is quitting after two excellent seasons at the north Oxfordshire club.

"I've had a great time at Banbury - they've been good for me and I think I've been good for them," Taylor said.

"But I've been offered quite a lot of money by Wycombe, and I have to think about my family. I couldn't really turn it down.

"On top of that, I just want to get away and go somewhere where people don't know me, or think they know me.

"Ninety nine per cent of what people think about me is what they thought about me when I was a lot younger. I want to be at a club where I don't have that sort of reputation."

Taylor has mixed feelings about leaving Banbury, and says that he may have stayed had the club made more of an effort to keep him.

"I am not saying I am as good as Neal Radford, but they were asking Neal all the time 'are you going to play next year?' They never really tried with me, and I didn't feel that important to them.

"But I've had two fantastic years at Banbury. There is no bad feeling. I am nothing but grateful because I was thinking of giving it all up before I went there."

Taylor revealed that he had also been approached by Birmingham League side Knowle & Dorridge.

"Perhaps the Birmingham League would have been a step too far at this stage in my career, and also I'm living in Benson now and that's just 20 minutes down the road from Wycombe."

Taylor added that he hoped to play Minor Counties cricket for Bucks next season.

However, his ambitions in the game do not stop at Minor Counties level.

On the back of a string of sensational performances in last season's National Club Championship, Taylor was given a chance with Worcestershire's second team.

He took it in style, hitting 115 on his debut against Somerset and then taking four wickets against Warwickshire.

"Worcestershire are interested in registering me for one-day games," Taylor revealed. "It's nothing official yet, and it wouldn't be a contract, but I have been in touch with the coaches up there and spoken to Tom Moody."