draw with Kent<\/a>, one of four Northants batters to reach three figures in their innings – a club record.<\/p>\nIt was not enough, however, to secure their first win of the season as the home side held out for a draw on the final day following rain interruptions.<\/p>\n
Lehmann said of Procter: “I’m pleased for him because he works really hard, he’s a stalwart of our club and I love what he brings to the table as a captain.<\/p>\n
“He has an infectious nature, he brings energy – scores 260 and then chases every ball to the boundary to stop every run for his bowlers. <\/p>\n
“That’s what we want from all our players and he leads from the front in that regard.”<\/p>\n
Procter joined Northants from Lancashire in 2022 and was appointed red-ball skipper three years ago.<\/p>\n
The Australian told BBC Radio Northampton that his captaincy in the game was “brilliant” and he had “done everything possible to get the result” they wanted.<\/p>\n
And he was delighted to see the all-rounder make such a big score after last year suggesting he move up from number three to open the batting.<\/p>\n
“When I first took over I said ‘I think you’re more of an opener’ and he said ‘I’ll bat wherever you want’ and that’s the sort of guy he is.<\/p>\n
“He’s a class player and he’s a very important player for us.”<\/p>\n
Northamptonshire, who finished next to bottom of Division Two in 2025, start a new game against Middlesex at Wantage Road on Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Darren Lehmann has hailed Northamptonshire captain Luke Procter as a skilled tactician and “class player” following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-530716","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\/530716","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=530716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}