{"id":432665,"date":"2026-01-23T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432665\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:38:09","slug":"luke-procter-northamptonshire-all-rounder-retains-championship-captaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432665\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Procter: Northamptonshire all-rounder retains Championship captaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All-rounder Luke Procter is to remain Northamptonshire&#8217;s County Championship captain for a fourth season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Procter, 37, took on the role in 2023 and last summer scored 787 runs, including two centuries, and took 18 wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cgl1w6jkdw5o\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New signing Nathan McSweeney<\/a> will be Procter&#8217;s vice-captain and the 26-year-old Australian will be available for the entire season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nathan possesses clear leadership qualities with plenty of experience in captaincy and leadership in Australia,&#8221; head coach Darren Lehmann <a href=\"https:\/\/nccc.co.uk\/news\/northamptonshire-county-championship-captain-confirmed\/\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We see him as someone who can offer great support to Proccy, who does a brilliant job leading the team in red-ball cricket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northamptonshire will host Lancashire in their opening Championship Division Two game of the new season, starting on 3 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-rounder Luke Procter is to remain Northamptonshire&#8217;s County Championship captain for a fourth season. Procter, 37, took on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-432665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432665","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=432665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}