Leicestershire have appointed all-rounder Ben Green as their new captain for this summer’s T20 Blast.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old has joined the club on a permanent basis following red-ball loan spells from Somerset in the past two seasons, and helped them win promotion in the County Championship.<\/p>\n
“While he is yet to represent the Foxes in white-ball cricket, his leadership qualities and extensive experience in the shortest formats made him the standout candidate for the role,” said a statement.<\/p>\n
Green has taken 105 wickets in 90 T20 matches, including five in an innings on two occasions, and also has a century in 50-over cricket.<\/p>\n
“Ben is someone who naturally commands respect. He’s calm, thoughtful and competitive, and those are qualities you want in a T20 captain,” said head coach Alfonso Thomas. <\/p>\n
“There is also no denying that the experience he has in this competition is only going to help us.”<\/p>\n
Leicestershire have won the domestic T20 competition on three occasions – one of only three teams to do so – but have not reached the knockout stage in the past five years.<\/p>\n
Louis Kimber, their 2025 captain, has left the club to join Northamptonshire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire have appointed all-rounder Ben Green as their new captain for this summer’s T20 Blast. The 28-year-old has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-361199","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\/361199","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=361199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}