{"id":683793,"date":"2026-05-20T21:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:24:15","slug":"kiran-carlson-glamorgan-skipper-signs-two-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683793\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiran Carlson: Glamorgan skipper signs two-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club are in a really exciting period and as captain I can&#8217;t wait to see how far we can get to as a club in all formats. There isn&#8217;t another club I&#8217;d want to play for more than here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carlson&#8217;s Glamorgan career has not been all smooth sailing, with a loss of form in 2019 and 2020,  but a resurgent 2021 season was capped off as he led the side to One-Day Cup victory &#8211; a first trophy for the club since 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked to also take the reins of the four-day side this season &#8211; a first campaign back in Division One for 21 years &#8211; following the departure of Sam Northeast, Carlson has continued to lead from the front<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carlson&#8217;s innings this season include a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cewp2gqykngo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">career-best 209<\/a> against Hampshire, as Glamorgan have started brightly to sit third in the table after the first block of Championship games thanks to two wins and three draws from six matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director of cricket Mark Wallace added: &#8220;Kiran is central to our long\u2011term vision, both as a player and as a leader. His commitment, professionalism, and passion for Glamorgan are evident every day, and securing his future is a significant moment for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled he will continue to play a major role in shaping the next phase of our journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The club are in a really exciting period and as captain I can&#8217;t wait to see how far&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-683793","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\/683793","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=683793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}