{"id":460098,"date":"2026-02-05T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460098\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:07:09","slug":"mickey-arthur-derbyshire-head-of-cricket-signs-new-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460098\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Arthur: Derbyshire head of cricket signs new two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mickey Arthur has signed a new two-year deal to remain as Derbyshire&#8217;s head of cricket until the end of the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 57-year-old former Australia, Pakistan and South Africa coach has been with the county since 2022 when he left his role as Sri Lanka boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derbyshire finished third in Division Two of the County Championship last season, falling a place short of promotion to Division One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their efforts with the red ball failed to translate into similar results in shorter white-ball formats, with Derbyshire finishing bottom of their T20 Blast group and second bottom in the One-Day Cup pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was Arthur&#8217;s first season at the County Ground that Derbyshire enjoyed their finest white-ball campaign under the South African, having reached the quarter-finals of the T20 Blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a special club and we are working every day to win silverware for our supporters and to get Derbyshire to that top table of county cricket,&#8221; Arthur told <a href=\"https:\/\/derbyshireccc.com\/\" class=\"ssrcss-ymbeas-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m immensely proud of the progress we have made, it&#8217;s not always been easy and we&#8217;ve had setbacks, but I truly feel we are putting the foundations in place for sustained success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mickey Arthur has signed a new two-year deal to remain as Derbyshire&#8217;s head of cricket until the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-460098","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\/460098","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=460098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}