{"id":553290,"date":"2026-03-20T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553290\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:52:08","slug":"lancashire-george-balderson-signs-new-contract-to-end-of-2028-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553290\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire: George Balderson signs new contract to end of 2028 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">George Balderson has signed a new contract to stay with Lancashire until the end of the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The seam bowling all-rounder has become an established first-team player in all formats since making his debut in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Balderson has taken 142 wickets in 61 first-class matches at an average of 32.21 while scoring two centuries and 12 fifties with a batting average of 28.15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old was ever-present in the Championship for Lancashire last season and finished as their leading wicket-taker with 40, and in his Red Rose career, he has opened both the batting and the bowling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;George&#8217;s progress over the last few years has been clear to see, not just in his performances but in how he goes about his cricket and training day to day,&#8221;  <a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.lancashirecricket.co.uk\/news\/2026-news\/george-balderson-signs-new-lancashire-deal-until-2028\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said, external<\/a> Lancashire head coach Steven Croft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;George gives us real flexibility as an all-rounder, which is something every side values,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s earned the trust of the group and the management to stand up and deliver during important moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire begin the new Championship season in Division Two, away to Northamptonshire on 3 April. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Balderson has signed a new contract to stay with Lancashire until the end of the 2028 season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-553290","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\/553290","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=553290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}