{"id":482432,"date":"2026-03-18T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482432\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:06:08","slug":"calvin-harrison-northants-signing-aims-to-prove-himself-as-an-all-rounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482432\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Harrison: Northants signing aims to prove himself as an all-rounder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calvin Harrison wants to be regarded as a genuine all-rounder following his winter switch<\/a> from county champions Nottinghamshire to Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n

Harrison played 10 Championship games for Northants during a red-ball loan spell last summer and was their leading wicket-taker with 36 at an average of 29.61.<\/p>\n

But he also scored 456 runs, including an innings of 122 against Kent – his maiden first-class century.<\/p>\n

“That’s part of my game [batting] that I really want to push. I was more of a batsman as a junior and then roles reversed and became more of a leggie who bats,” the 27-year-old told BBC Radio Northampton.<\/p>\n

“Now I want to cement myself and make more of a case as a full-on all-rounder. It’s a good opportunity and I’m looking forward to it.”<\/p>\n

Harrison said it had been a difficult decision to leave Trent Bridge, having played for Nottinghamshire since 2021, but now wanted to be part of a promotion-winning team as well as helping his new team do well in white-ball competitions.<\/p>\n

“I’m looking forward to the new adventure now. We’ve set ourselves up really well to push for promotion and the guys got through to [T20 Blast] Finals Day [last season] and we want to repeat that,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Ultimately I want to be playing all formats – and having a big role.”<\/p>\n

Harrison made an appearance for England Lions in Abu Dhabi in February, taking 3-37 in a 50-over game against Pakistan Shaheens, and he hopes it may lead to further international opportunities.<\/p>\n

“It was a good trip – it was unfortunate that it got cut short<\/a> [by missile strikes across the Middle East]. When you go there you want to make a bit of a statement and I just enjoyed it. You go into an environment like that and you want to show what you can do,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calvin Harrison wants to be regarded as a genuine all-rounder following his winter switch from county champions Nottinghamshire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-482432","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\/482432","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=482432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}