{"id":379719,"date":"2026-01-20T05:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379719\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:36:10","slug":"kiran-carlson-succeeds-sam-northeast-as-glamorgan-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379719\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiran Carlson succeeds Sam Northeast as Glamorgan captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan have named all-rounder Kiran Carlson as club captain for 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old succeeds Sam Northeast and will lead Glamorgan as they play in the top flight of the County Championship for the first time in 21 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carlson has led the Welsh county&#8217;s limited-overs teams for four years, including two One-Day Cup triumphs, while Northeast &#8211; who has returned to Kent &#8211; led Glamorgan&#8217;s first-class side as they finished second in Division Two last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan say Carlson, who rose through the county&#8217;s ranks, has &#8220;grown into a key figure within the squad, combining consistent performances with strong leadership qualities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carlson said he was &#8220;extremely honoured and privileged&#8221; to take the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;I&#8217;ve grown up around some amazing captains and to be a Welsh boy captaining Glamorgan is a real honour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan have named all-rounder Kiran Carlson as club captain for 2026. The 27-year-old succeeds Sam Northeast and will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-379719","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\/379719","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=379719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}