{"id":622535,"date":"2026-06-05T11:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622535\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:16:17","slug":"chris-green-lancashire-dealt-blow-as-injury-ends-all-rounders-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622535\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Green: Lancashire dealt blow as injury ends all-rounder&#8217;s season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire have been dealt a major blow after Australian all-rounder Chris Green was ruled out of the rest of their campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green, who is in his third season with the county, fractured a thumb in the T20 Blast defeat against Leicestershire on Friday and is to return home early.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means he will miss the remainder of the Blast campaign, starting with Friday&#8217;s match against Yorkshire, as well as Lancashire&#8217;s upcoming County Championship fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Lancashire have confirmed that they have agreed a deal with Green to return next summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am gutted to be ending my stint at Lancashire earlier than planned this summer due to injury,&#8221; the 32-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.lancashirecricket.co.uk\/news\/2026-news\/injury-update-chris-green\/\" 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 will be watching on and supporting the boys all the way, starting with a big Roses clash at Headingley tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am grateful to the club for their support, and I am delighted that I will be back at Emirates Old Trafford in 2027.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green was named Lancashire&#8217;s T20 player of the year in both 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would like to wish Chris a speedy recovery,&#8221; said Mark Chilton, Lancashire&#8217;s director of cricket performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has once again been an outstanding addition to the squad during his short time with us this summer and we look forward to welcoming him back to Emirates Old Trafford in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are currently considering our options regarding a replacement overseas player for the remainder of the Vitality Blast campaign and the upcoming Rothesay County Championship fixtures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire will have Luke Wood available for the first time against Yorkshire after his return from the Indian Premier League, as well as the ECB-contracted Saqib Mahmood, who will return to the England Lions squad afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire are still without Phil Salt, who damaged a finger during the IPL, while Jos Buttler is resting after playing in Sunday&#8217;s final for Gujarat Titans, so Australian Marcus Harris, who signed with Lancashire to play County Championship cricket, could make his Blast debut at Headingley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lancashire have been dealt a major blow after Australian all-rounder Chris Green was ruled out of the rest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-622535","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\/622535","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=622535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}