{"id":175948,"date":"2025-10-02T20:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175948\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:57:11","slug":"louis-kimber-northamptonshire-sign-all-rounder-from-leicestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175948\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Kimber: Northamptonshire sign all-rounder from Leicestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northamptonshire have signed Louis Kimber on a two-year deal after the all-rounder was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/crl51d99pgwo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released by Leicestershire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old played a part in Leicestershire&#8217;s County Championship promotion as Division Two title winners this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also helped the Foxes win the One-Day Cup competition in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his five years at Grace Road, Kimber scored more than 3,000 runs and took 26 wickets across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a record-breaker with the bat, having scored the fastest County Championship double hundred from 100 balls against Sussex in 2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c4nng85x104o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including 43 runs from one over<\/a> bowled by Ollie Robinson &#8211; Northamptonshire head coach Darren Lehmann says Kimber adds &#8220;firepower&#8221; to his side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will no doubt attract people to Wantage Road with his explosive batting and I can&#8217;t wait to start working with him,&#8221; Lehmann told <a href=\"https:\/\/nccc.co.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire have signed Louis Kimber on a two-year deal after the all-rounder was released by Leicestershire. The 28-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-175948","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\/175948","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=175948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}