A thanksgiving service will be held in memory of cricketer Matthew Hobden who died while celebrating New Year with friends in Scotland.

Friends and relatives of the 22-year-old fast bowler are due to attend the ceremony at All Saints Church in his home town of Eastbourne, East Sussex on Friday.

The body of the promising Sussex cricketer was discovered by Police Scotland officers at a property in Forres, near Inverness.

Investigators are still probing the circumstances leading up to his death but officers are not treating it as suspicious.

Hobden was feted as a rising cricketing star, and had been selected as one of six fast bowlers to take part in the Potential England Performance Programme this winter.

The group were due to spend time in Johannesburg alongside the senior England side, helping with preparations for the one-day international series against South Africa.

A number of senior players and coaches paid tribute to Hobden following the tragedy, including Sussex coach Mark Davis who gave his players the week off to come to terms with the young cricketer's death.