Lategan is a product of Worcestershire’s academy pathway having played his formative cricket in South Africa.<\/p>\n
After finishing with the development programme at New Road, he mixed casual work at the club’s bar with some trial games for the second XI and eventually earned a three-year contract in July 2025,, external<\/a> off the back of some strong performances.<\/p>\n Lategan, on the Worcestershire books as an overseas player, qualifies to play for England in 2028.<\/p>\n After an impressive debut campaign in Worcestershire’s One-Day Cup winning run<\/a> in 2025 where he averaged 54.50 from six innings, he played the last four Championship games of last season, scoring 145 runs from six innings.<\/p>\n In his first knock of this season, he hit his top score of 89 against a Derbyshire attack including Pakistan star Mohammad Abbas before adding 49 in the second innings.<\/p>\n “I think he’s learning on the job,” Richardson told BBC Hereford and Worcester.<\/p>\n “He’s barely played any multi-day cricket coming into his first-class career. He played a lot of one-day cricket in South Africa and in academy cricket and in school cricket. <\/p>\n “So for him to learn how to go up and down the gears, and he’s faced some really good bowlers in the last couple of weeks.”<\/p>\n Richardson said he is sure a maiden century “is just around the corner” as Lategan continues to “evolve”.<\/p>\n With Worcestershire set to go with overseas recruits Sikandar Raza<\/a> and leg-spinner Usama Mir<\/a> for their T20 Blast campaign, Lategan is likely to have to be patient for his chance in the Rapids side.<\/p>\n “It’d be lovely for him to play some T20 cricket,” Richardson said. “I think he did really well in the 50-over competition for us so he’ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n “But for now it’ll be Usama and Sikandar who start for us and they’ll be a huge part of our T20 campaign.”<\/p>\n Worcestershire begin their T20 Blast campaign away to Leicestershire on Friday [18:30 BST].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lategan is a product of Worcestershire’s academy pathway having played his formative cricket in South Africa. After finishing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-593102","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\/593102","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=593102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}