{"id":595194,"date":"2026-05-20T23:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595194\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T23:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:23:15","slug":"luke-procter-northamptonshire-captain-signs-new-two-year-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595194\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Procter: Northamptonshire captain signs new two year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northamptonshire captain Luke Procter has signed a new two-year contract with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 37-year-old all-rounder moved to Wantage Road from Lancashire, initially on loan, in 2017 before making his stay permanent the following year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Procter has made more than 100 first-class appearances for Northamptonshire and made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c3933xvxdjlo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">career-best 261 not out<\/a> in the second game of this season against Kent in Division Two of the County Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted to be staying with Northamptonshire for another two seasons,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/nccc.co.uk\/news\/luke-procter-signs-two-year-contract-extension\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel like it&#8217;s my home and I love representing the club and playing with all of the lads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel as though we&#8217;re building something special under the leadership of Darren (Lehmann &#8211; head coach) and to be able to be part of that means a lot to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northamptonshire are currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/mens-england-division-two-multi-day\/table\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second in Division Two<\/a> with two wins from their opening six matches of the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire captain Luke Procter has signed a new two-year contract with the club. The 37-year-old all-rounder moved to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-595194","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\/595194","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=595194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}