{"id":458714,"date":"2026-02-04T22:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458714\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:01:17","slug":"t20-blast-northants-steelbacks-re-sign-australian-opener-chris-lynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458714\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 Blast: Northants Steelbacks re-sign Australian opener Chris Lynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northants Steelbacks have re-signed Australian batter Chris Lynn for this summer&#8217;s T20 Blast as a replacement for Matthew Breetzke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lynn scored 880 runs in two previous spells at Wantage Road in 2022 and 2023, including three T20 hundreds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played for Hampshire in last summer&#8217;s competition, helping them reach the final at Edgbaston before losing to Somerset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We all know the class that Lynny will bring to the side, he&#8217;s had a lot of success here and we&#8217;re hoping for more of the same this summer,&#8221; said head coach Darren Lehmann, who has also worked with him at Brisbane Heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His power and ball striking is second to none and he has the ability to take control of games very quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old has scored more than 8,700 runs in the game&#8217;s shortest format and played four ODIs and 18 T20 internationals in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Breetzke was due to play for Northants this summer, but the county decided to look elsewhere because of his potential commitments for South Africa and franchise tournaments in other parts of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northants Steelbacks have re-signed Australian batter Chris Lynn for this summer&#8217;s T20 Blast as a replacement for Matthew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-458714","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\/458714","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=458714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}