{"id":120828,"date":"2025-09-05T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120828\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:06:10","slug":"chris-wood-hampshire-veteran-signs-new-deal-to-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120828\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wood: Hampshire veteran signs new deal to 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire&#8217;s Chris Wood has signed a new contract until the end of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old left-arm seamer and right-handed batsman is the club&#8217;s leading T20 wicket-taker, playing 189 matches and taking 208 wickets at an average of 25.33.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wood &#8211; who has been at Hampshire since 2010 &#8211; was part of the Hawks&#8217; T20 winning sides in 2010, 2012 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Friday he will continue to be a part of Hampshire&#8217;s bid to claim another title as they take on Durham in the Blast quarter finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been playing some great cricket recently,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitabowl.com\/cricket\/news\/chris-wood-signs-contract-extension-until-2026\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wood said, external<\/a> after signing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With the quarter-finals up next in the Blast and 2026 just around the corner, it&#8217;s really exciting to continue with Hampshire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club has shown great faith in me, and I feel I&#8217;ve still got a big part to play in the team, and look forward to helping us build on our recent success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire&#8217;s Chris Wood has signed a new contract until the end of the 2026 season. The 35-year-old left-arm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-120828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}