Injured top-order batter Luke Wells has signed a new contract with Lancashire until 2028.<\/p>\n
Lancashire agreed terms with Wells over the winter before the 35-year-old dislocated his shoulder last month against Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n
The left-hander, who is also a handy leg-spin bowler, needed surgery on his shoulder and Lancashire have not put a date on his recovery.<\/p>\n
Wells signed a three-year before the 2024 season and Lancashire director of cricket Mark Chilton said it was a no-brainer to tie him down to the Emirates Old Trafford until the end of the 2028 campaign.<\/p>\n
Chilton told BBC Radio Lancashire: “Not everyone was aware, but a deal had been agreed during the winter to commit to Luke to the end of 2028.<\/p>\n
“Ultimately, it wasn’t that difficult a decision with Luke if I’m honest with you.<\/p>\n
“He definitely wanted to commit to a longer-term deal or a medium-term deal and we were happy to commit to that as well.”<\/p>\n
Wells spent a decade with his home county Sussex before joining Lancashire in 2021 and Chilton says he is an excellent voice in the dressing room.<\/p>\n
“We’re about developing players, but Luke has proved across all formats what value he can bring to the team,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He’s also a very good person to have in a changing room. He’s got strong views, but he’s a real team man. <\/p>\n
“Sometimes changing rooms need a little bit of disturbance, or however you want to call it. He brings a very healthy challenge to a changing room because he’s very team orientated.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injured top-order batter Luke Wells has signed a new contract with Lancashire until 2028. Lancashire agreed terms with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-642844","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\/642844","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=642844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}