{"id":396241,"date":"2026-01-29T04:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396241\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:37:13","slug":"jack-blatherwick-fast-bowler-signs-new-contract-with-lancashire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396241\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Blatherwick: Fast bowler signs new contract with Lancashire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire fast bowler Jack Blatherwick has signed a new two-year contract which will keep him at the club until at least the end of the 2027 county season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old joined the Red Rose county <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/54930625\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from Nottinghamshire in 2020 <\/a>and has made 57 appearances in all formats, taking 72 wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blatherwick was a key member of Lancashire&#8217;s T20 Blast side last summer, taking 13 wickets as he helped them reach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/live\/cpvlzj0vpkyt\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finals Day<\/a> where they were beaten in the last four by the eventual champions Somerset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Joining this club has been hugely positive for my development as a player, and I&#8217;m excited to keep pushing myself and contributing to the team in the years ahead,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.lancashirecricket.co.uk\/news\/2025-news\/jack-blatherwick-signs-new-two-year-contract-with-lancashire-cricket\/\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Lancashire website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve really enjoyed having a more regular role in the T20 side over the past couple of seasons, with a massive focus of mine becoming more consistent in red ball and earning my spot as an all-format player. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Winning a trophy here at Lancashire is a big ambition of mine going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lancashire fast bowler Jack Blatherwick has signed a new two-year contract which will keep him at the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-396241","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\/396241","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=396241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}