{"id":43445,"date":"2025-08-04T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43445\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:49:07","slug":"tim-robinson-northamptonshire-re-sign-new-zealand-batter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43445\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Robinson: Northamptonshire re-sign New Zealand batter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand batsman Tim Robinson has returned to Northamptonshire for their Metro Bank One-Day Cup campaign and the rest of the County Championship season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cly2zrrrxjwo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">played for the county earlier in the season<\/a> but his contract expired last month, when he left to feature for his country in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/czedeke7712o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T20 tri-series<\/a> against Zimbabwe and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson hit an unbeaten 75 for the Kiwis in one of the two games in which he featured, boosting his New Zealand T20 average to 27.80.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hard-hitting right-hander is back in time to play in the One-Day Cup opener against Lancashire on Tuesday 5 August, at Sedbergh School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cwykk0d83n4o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scored 55<\/a> in his last County Championship outing for Northants, against Kent in June, but flopped with the bat in the three T20 Vitality Blast games in which he played, scoring 9, 9 and 0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand batsman Tim Robinson has returned to Northamptonshire for their Metro Bank One-Day Cup campaign and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-43445","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\/43445","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=43445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}