Leicestershire have signed wicketkeeper Josh Blake from Surrey on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old spent four years on the books at Surrey as a professional, a club he first joined at the age of nine and later worked at as a community coach for four years as he tried to earn his first contract.<\/p>\n
He landed that deal in 2022, the same year he made his List A debut for the club, while it was not until 2024 that he made his first appearance in the County Championship.<\/p>\n
Blake has signed for Leicestershire just a day after it was confirmed that experienced wicketkeeper Ben Cox is leaving<\/a> the county, whose relegation from Division One is still subject to their appeal against a points deduction.<\/a><\/p>\n Blake said leaving Surrey was a “big decision”, but sees Leicestershire as a “new chapter” in a career that has featured time playing club cricket in the Surrey Championship as well as in Sydney Shires in Australia to prove himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire have signed wicketkeeper Josh Blake from Surrey on a two-year deal. The 28-year-old spent four years on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-916676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}