{"id":168121,"date":"2025-09-29T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168121\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:51:07","slug":"alex-thomson-derbyshire-all-rounder-to-leave-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168121\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Thomson: Derbyshire all-rounder to leave club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derbyshire all-rounder Alex Thomson is set to leave the club when his contract ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomson, 31, played 82 games in all formats after joining the East Midlands club from Warwickshire in 2021, picking up 135 wickets and scoring four half-centuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The off-spinner&#8217;s best figures of 7-65 for Derbyshire came in the County Championship match with Glamorgan last year, on his way to 12 wickets in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His most recent appearance came in their championship defeat by Leicester in July, making 55 in his final innings for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As I leave the club after four seasons, I&#8217;d like to express my thanks to the coaching staff, my team-mates and the loyal supporters for being a part of living out my childhood dream,&#8221; he told the <a href=\"https:\/\/derbyshireccc.com\/2025\/09\/thomson-to-leave-derbyshire\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">club website., external<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Although I&#8217;m disappointed to be leaving, I leave with fond memories and I&#8217;m excited for what life holds next.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derbyshire all-rounder Alex Thomson is set to leave the club when his contract ends. Thomson, 31, played 82&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-168121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}