{"id":669869,"date":"2026-07-02T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669869\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:44:09","slug":"nathan-mcsweeney-australia-test-batter-re-signs-for-northants-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669869\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan McSweeney: Australia Test batter re-signs for Northants in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia Test batter Nathan McSweeney has signed a new contract to play for Northamptonshire in the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old, who has played three Test matches for Australia, has scored three County Championship centuries in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cgl1w6jkdw5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first year with Northants<\/a> and is the county&#8217;s leading run-scorer this summer with 589 runs at an average of just under 50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McSweeney, who will also captain Northamptonshire in this summer&#8217;s One-Day Cup, has been an important part of their T20 Blast campaign, hitting an unbeaten 72 in Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cly7zjnl089o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-wicket win at Gloucestershire<\/a> with the Steelbacks topping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/mens-england-twenty20\/table\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central &amp; West Group.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful for the faith the club has shown in me and I&#8217;m looking forward to continuing to contribute both on and off the field,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/nccc.co.uk\/news\/nathan-mcsweeney-signs-for-2027\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully there are plenty of successful moments ahead for Northamptonshire, and I&#8217;m excited to be a part of that journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia Test batter Nathan McSweeney has signed a new contract to play for Northamptonshire in the 2027 season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-669869","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\/669869","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=669869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}