{"id":169429,"date":"2025-09-30T02:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169429\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:09:08","slug":"louis-kimber-to-leave-leicestershire-along-with-matt-salisbury-roman-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169429\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Kimber to leave Leicestershire along with Matt Salisbury &#038; Roman Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All-rounder Louis Kimber heads a list of three players who will leave Leicestershire following the end of the county season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old hit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c4nng85x104o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fastest County Championship double hundred from 100 balls against Sussex in 2024<\/a> &#8211; including 43 from one over bowled by Ollie Robinson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was a member of the side that won the One-Day Cup in 2023 and captained the team in this year&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seam bowlers Matt Salisbury and Roman Walker are also leaving Grace Road, having taken 42 and 39 wickets respectively for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Louis, Matt and Roman have given a tremendous amount of value to Leicestershire on and off the field,&#8221; said director of cricket Claude Henderson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club are also losing paceman Chris Wright and batter Harry Swindells, who are retiring from professional cricket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-rounder Louis Kimber heads a list of three players who will leave Leicestershire following the end of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-169429","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\/169429","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=169429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}