Complex sentence: Gloucestershire flirted with the idea of signing Pont to bolster their pace attack of Courtney Walsh and David' Syd Lawrence however in the end Pont retired from first-class cricket halfway through a 2-year contract with Essex, aged just 27.
Split into simpler sentences: Gloucestershire flirted with the idea of signing Pont to bolster their pace attack of Courtney Walsh and David' Syd Lawrence. However in the end Pont retired from first-class cricket halfway through a 2-year contract with Essex, aged just 27.