{"id":422229,"date":"2026-02-12T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422229\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:48:08","slug":"zak-crawley-england-batter-signs-new-contract-with-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422229\/","title":{"rendered":"Zak Crawley: England batter signs new contract with Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England opener Zak Crawley has signed a one-year contract extension with Kent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be the 28-year-old&#8217;s 10th season with Kent&#8217;s first team. He has scored 7,837 runs in 139 first-class matches for the club, at an average of 31.98.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crawley made his England debut in 2019 and has 73 caps for his country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has 3,586 runs, including five centuries, in 64 Test appearances, as well as 205 runs in nine one-day internationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel very proud to be heading into my 10th year at Kent,&#8221; he told the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentcricket.co.uk\/news\/zak-crawley-extends-kent-contract\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to play for my home county when available this year \u2013 there&#8217;s a lot of talent coming through now and I hope to aid in their development as much as I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent finished bottom of County Championship Division Two last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They begin the new season away at Durham on Friday, 3 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England opener Zak Crawley has signed a one-year contract extension with Kent. It will be the 28-year-old&#8217;s 10th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-422229","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\/422229","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=422229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}