{"id":929261,"date":"2026-10-15T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929261\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:48:15","slug":"zak-crawley-signs-new-kent-contract-after-losing-england-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929261\/","title":{"rendered":"Zak Crawley signs new Kent contract after losing England deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

England batter Zak Crawley has signed a one-year contract extension with Kent to keep him at the county next summer.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old has agreed the new deal three days after his central contract was not renewed when the England and Wales Cricket Board released its updated list.<\/a><\/p>\n

Crawley has not featured in a Test since the final game of last winter’s Ashes tour in Sydney and last appeared for England in a one-day international in Sri Lanka in January.<\/p>\n

He played in 12 County Championship matches for Kent this season as they won promotion back to Division One, making 608 runs with a top score of 89 among four half-centuries.<\/p>\n

“It’s an exciting time as we head back into Division One of the County Championship and I’m looking forward to the challenge of competing for Kent this coming summer,” said Crawley.<\/p>\n

“It’s great to see so many young players coming through the system here, similar to my journey into first-team cricket, and I’m excited to help them settle into the first team and further their development for the long term.”<\/p>\n

The opener has made more than 180 appearances in all competitions for his home county since his debut in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England batter Zak Crawley has signed a one-year contract extension with Kent to keep him at the county…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-929261","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\/929261","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=929261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}