{"id":576307,"date":"2026-03-31T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/576307\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:54:14","slug":"lancashire-hit-by-mitch-perry-injury-blow-on-eve-of-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/576307\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire hit by Mitch Perry injury blow on eve of new season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire have been forced into a search for a last-minute overseas signing after Australian pace bowler Mitch Perry was ruled out because of a back injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old, who took a wicket with his first ball after coming on as an injury substitute for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield final at the weekend, had been due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cqjgpwvq981o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spend the first two months of the season<\/a> with Lancashire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he will instead remain with Cricket Victoria to begin his rehabilitation programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are naturally disappointed that Mitch will be unable to join us this season, particularly at such short notice ahead of the campaign. However, we wish him a full and speedy recovery,&#8221; Lancashire director of cricket performance Mark Chilton told the club website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are currently assessing our options with regard to potential replacement players and their availability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire will also be without Australian batter Marcus Harris for the club&#8217;s opening game of the County Championship season, which begins against Northamptonshire on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old&#8217;s arrival has been put back by a week because of his involvement in the Sheffield Shield final with Victoria, which concluded on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lancashire have been forced into a search for a last-minute overseas signing after Australian pace bowler Mitch Perry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-576307","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\/576307","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=576307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}