{"id":144797,"date":"2025-09-15T11:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144797\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:17:17","slug":"paul-coughlin-durham-confirm-exit-of-all-rounder-and-former-t20-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144797\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Coughlin: Durham confirm exit of all-rounder and former T20 captain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Durham have confirmed former T20 captain Paul Coughlin will leave when his contract expires at the end of this season.<\/p>\n

Coughlin signed his first professional deal in 2013 and has represented the club across all formats over two spells in Chester-le-Street.<\/p>\n

His first-class debut came in 2012 against Australia A and the bowling all-rounder has played 166 times in both red and white ball cricket for the county.<\/p>\n

Coughlin, 32, who had a two-season spell at Nottinghamshire in 2018 and 2019, claimed five five-wicket hauls for Durham in a total of 224 scalps.<\/p>\n

The Hetton-born cricketer, who enjoyed a stint as Durham T20 captain and earned England Lions recognition, also passed 2,500 runs during his time in the North East.<\/p>\n

Coughlin has struggled with injuries and told the club website:, external<\/a> “It’s been a huge honour to represent Durham over the years.<\/p>\n

“I’ve made some great memories and friendships that I’ll cherish forever and while I’m sad to be leaving, I’m also really looking forward to a new challenge and the next chapter of my career.”<\/p>\n

Director of cricket Marcus North said: “It has been a challenging few years for Paul where he has struggled to maintain regular game-time.<\/p>\n

“However since his return back to his home county, Coggers played a key part to us winning the Division Two Championship and promotion back into Division One.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durham have confirmed former T20 captain Paul Coughlin will leave when his contract expires at the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-144797","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\/144797","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=144797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}