{"id":555108,"date":"2026-04-28T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555108\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:29:08","slug":"chris-green-australian-all-rounder-to-join-lancashire-early-for-overseas-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555108\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Green: Australian all-rounder to join Lancashire early for overseas stint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australian all-rounder Chris Green is to join Lancashire earlier than planned for his third spell with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old off-spinner and batter had been due to arrive in time for the start of the T20 Blast on 22 May.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he will now be available for the two Championship games against Middlesex and Worcestershire before that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green will then be at Emirates Old Trafford for the duration of the T20 Blast, including the knockout stages, and the two Championship games played in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the past two years, the Australian has taken 35 wickets in 25 T20 games, while in first-class cricket, he has scored two centuries and grabbed 24 wickets in only five matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Chris is incredibly respected in the dressing room and seen as a real leader. We can&#8217;t wait to welcome him back,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.lancashirecricket.co.uk\/news\/2026-news\/lancashire-cricket-announces-early-arrival-of-overseas-signing-chris-green\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said, external<\/a> Lancashire director of cricket performance Mark Chilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green, who is currently playing in the Pakistan Super League, will take the second overseas spot in Lancashire&#8217;s squad alongside Australia batter Marcus Harris. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian all-rounder Chris Green is to join Lancashire earlier than planned for his third spell with the club.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-555108","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\/555108","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=555108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}