{"id":392411,"date":"2026-01-27T03:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392411\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:42:12","slug":"tom-scriven-leicestershire-all-rounder-extends-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392411\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Scriven: Leicestershire all-rounder extends contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire all-rounder Tom Scriven has signed a contract extension with the club until the end of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has taken 142 wickets in 87 games across all formats and has made nine first-class fifties, with a highest score of 99 against Kent at Canterbury last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scriven also took five wickets in an innings for the first time against Lancashire as the Foxes were promoted back to Division One of the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Last season was a special one for me personally but I&#8217;m focused on contributing even more to the team and helping us push forward over the next few years,&#8221; the 27-year-old said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire all-rounder Tom Scriven has signed a contract extension with the club until the end of the 2027&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-392411","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\/392411","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=392411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}