{"id":283111,"date":"2025-11-25T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283111\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:38:08","slug":"luke-wood-lancashires-england-bowler-signs-new-white-ball-deal-with-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283111\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Wood: Lancashire&#8217;s England bowler signs new white-ball deal with county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wood played across all three formats when he first joined Lancashire, but he has not played any Championship cricket in the past two summers as he has switched his focus to the white-ball game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has played in T20 leagues in Pakistan and Bangladesh, while he will join up with Adelaide Strikers next month for the new season of Australia&#8217;s Big Bash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-armer has helped Lancashire reach three T20 Finals Days during his time at Emirates Old Trafford and lifting the trophy is a burning ambition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Playing for England is a huge honour, but Lancashire feels like home for me now, and to have clarity over the next few years is brilliant,&#8221; he told the club&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having reached three Finals Days during my time at the club, it feels like we are really close to success in the Vitality Blast, and it would be really special to achieve that with this group.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wood played across all three formats when he first joined Lancashire, but he has not played any Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-283111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283111","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=283111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}