{"id":204722,"date":"2025-10-16T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204722\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:06:10","slug":"james-anderson-set-to-sign-lancashire-contract-extension-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204722\/","title":{"rendered":"James Anderson set to sign Lancashire contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England great James Anderson is set to extend his playing career past his 44th birthday by signing a contract extension to play for Lancashire in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seamer Anderson, England&#8217;s all-time leading wicket-taker, agreed a year-long deal at Old Trafford for the 2025 season after retiring from international cricket in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He took 17 wickets in six County Championship matches, but his performances in the shortest form of the game were particularly impressive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Playing T20 cricket for the first time in 10 years, Anderson took 20 wickets in Lancashire&#8217;s run to Blast finals day, form that earned him a deal with Manchester Originals in The Hundred &#8211; his first experience of franchise cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anderson also captained Lancashire in the County Championship, a role he could resume in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new deal will extend Anderson&#8217;s professional career to 25 years, having made his debut for Lancashire in 2001. He will turn 44 in July of next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England great James Anderson is set to extend his playing career past his 44th birthday by signing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-204722","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\/204722","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=204722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}