{"id":557178,"date":"2026-04-29T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557178\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:03:13","slug":"nick-kelly-new-zealand-batter-joins-leicestershire-for-rest-of-county-championship-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557178\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kelly: New Zealand batter joins Leicestershire for rest of County Championship season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kelly has accrued 3,151 runs in 110 List A games and is approaching 2,000 runs in T20 matches with a strike rate of 127.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is currently taking part in New Zealand&#8217;s white-ball tour of Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nick is a high-quality signing for us and someone we&#8217;re really excited to bring into the group,&#8221; head coach Alfonso Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His record across all formats is excellent, particularly in first-class cricket where nearly 5,000 runs at close to 40 shows his consistency and class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a versatile batter who can adapt to different situations, and his experience in white-ball cricket will be a real asset for us in the One Day Cup and T20 Blast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire have drawn two and lost one on their return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/mens-england-division-one-multi-day\/table\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first division of the County Championship<\/a> this year and take on reigning champions Nottinghamshire at Grace Road on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelly has accrued 3,151 runs in 110 List A games and is approaching 2,000 runs in T20 matches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-557178","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\/557178","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=557178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}