{"id":405491,"date":"2026-02-03T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405491\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:11:07","slug":"david-willey-retains-northants-steelbacks-t20-blast-captaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405491\/","title":{"rendered":"David Willey retains Northants Steelbacks T20 Blast captaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former England all-rounder David Willey will remain Northants Steelbacks captain for this summer&#8217;s T20 Blast with Justin Broad as his new deputy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Willey has been skipper since 2023 and led the team to an appearance at Finals Day last summer, only to lose to Hampshire by six wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Broad hit an unbeaten 61 off 39 balls in that match and contributed 317 runs throughout the competition, plus three wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;David is the ultimate professional, he drives players on and sets really high standards within the group,&#8221; said head coach Darren Lehmann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a huge asset to the club and we&#8217;re looking forward to seeing him lead by example again this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Broady has displayed a lot of great leadership qualities over the last year and has a brilliant cricket brain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northants, T20 Blast winners in 2013 and 2016, start this summer&#8217;s competition with a home game against Glamorgan on 22 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England all-rounder David Willey will remain Northants Steelbacks captain for this summer&#8217;s T20 Blast with Justin Broad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-405491","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\/405491","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=405491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}