{"id":53347,"date":"2025-08-08T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53347\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:20:11","slug":"august-2025-news-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53347\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2025 &#8211; News Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> NEWS IN SHORTS <\/p>\n<p>           <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cursor-pointer\" height=\"396\" width=\"595\" alt=\"Lehmann will now continue in his role as the club's head coach until at least the end of the 2027 season.\" title=\"Lehmann will now continue in his role as the club's head coach until at least the end of the 2027 season.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lehmann-will-now-continue-in-h.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Lehmann will now continue in his role as the club&#8217;s head coach until at least the end of the 2027 season. \u00a9 Getty<\/p>\n<p>     August 8     <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Lehmann to continue at Northamptonshire <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Darren Lehmann has signed a one-year contract extension at Northamptonshire County Cricket Club. The Australian will now continue in his role as the club&#8217;s head coach until at least the end of the 2027 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8220;I&#8217;ve absolutely loved my time so far and I&#8217;m really excited to have committed for an extra year,&#8221; Lehmann said in a statement issued by the club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Lehmann has originally signed a deal until the end of the 2026 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8220;The Club, fans and the sponsors have all been fantastic to me, so I had no problem agreeing to another year. &#8220;The support has been unbelievable. We&#8217;ve been good in patches and not so good in others, but they&#8217;re always behind us which I love.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Northamptonshire made the quarterfinals of the T20 Blast competition under Lehmann&#8217;s tutelage. Club CEO Ray Payne welcomed his decision to opt for a year&#8217;s extension. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8220;Darren has had an exceptional impact at Northamptonshire from the moment he arrived. &#8220;He&#8217;s brought a really positive culture to the Club, with players and staff all working as hard as they can to be a team that Northamptonshire fans can be proud of. &#8220;We&#8217;re so pleased that he&#8217;s committed until at least the end of 2027, and that he believes in the direction we&#8217;re heading in.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> \u00a9 Cricbuzz <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS IN SHORTS Lehmann will now continue in his role as the club&#8217;s head coach until at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-53347","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\/53347","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=53347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}