{"id":192378,"date":"2025-10-11T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192378\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:20:11","slug":"michael-booth-warwickshire-seamer-signs-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192378\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Booth: Warwickshire seamer signs two-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warwickshire fast bowler Michael Booth has signed a two-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old followed up taking 25 first-class wickets in his 2024 debut season, with 35 this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His second-season landmarks included a maiden five-wicket haul against Nottinghamshire, and seven wickets and 98 runs in the match in the thrilling one-wicket win against Durham at Chester-le-Street in Apil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Booth <a href=\"https:\/\/edgbaston.com\/news\/michael-booth-signs-two-year-contract-extension\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said: , external<\/a>&#8220;You work so hard for that first contract, but then keeping it and making the club want to re-sign you is a big honour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a testament to the hard work that you put in day in, day out, to keep impressing and keep showing the club that you&#8217;ve got more to offer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warwickshire performance director James Thomas said Booth had become a &#8220;vital part&#8221; of the bowling attack and made &#8220;valuable contributions with the bat, often in crucial moments&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Michael will be an important part of our squad as we look to build a team capable of challenging for trophies on all fronts in the coming years,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warwickshire fast bowler Michael Booth has signed a two-year contract extension. The 24-year-old followed up taking 25 first-class&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-192378","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\/192378","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=192378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}