{"id":424355,"date":"2026-02-13T22:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424355\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T22:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:44:16","slug":"ex-england-seamer-kate-cross-signs-new-deal-with-lancashire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424355\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-England seamer Kate Cross signs new deal with Lancashire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former England seamer Kate Cross has signed a new one-year contract with Lancashire Women but admitted she considered retiring over the winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cross <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/crmex0wpjk4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost her central contract with the national team<\/a> in September 2025, but has decided to continue playing, extending her 21-year association with the Red Rose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Given the way my England contract ended, there was a question mark over whether I would carry on playing&#8221;, the 34-year-old told <a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.lancashirecricket.co.uk\/news\/2026-news\/kate-cross-signs-one-year-contract-with-lancashire-women\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lancashire&#8217;s club website., external<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But once I decided to continue, it was an easy choice to do it here at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very pleased to be here for another year. One of the main reasons I&#8217;ve had the career I have is because of Lancashire, so it feels special to come full circle and sign my first professional domestic contract with the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cross earned more than 100 caps for England in an international career lasting almost 12 years, taking more than 130 wickets across all formats, including more than 100 in one-day internationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Domestically, Cross has taken more than 350 wickets across all formats and helped Lancashire to a historic double success in 2025.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She made 24 appearances and claimed 28 wickets as Lancashire lifted the T20 County Cup and the Metro Bank One-Day Cup competitions for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England seamer Kate Cross has signed a new one-year contract with Lancashire Women but admitted she considered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-424355","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\/424355","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=424355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}