{"id":684351,"date":"2026-07-10T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684351\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:33:09","slug":"justin-broad-northamptonshire-all-rounder-ruled-out-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684351\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Broad: Northamptonshire all-rounder ruled out for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northamptonshire all-rounder Justin Broad has been ruled out for the remainder of the 2026 season with a lower back injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Germany international has played just nine first-team games this season and has been unable to bowl due to the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South-Africa born Broad, 26, signed a new two-year deal with the club in September, with head coach Darren Lehmann <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cj6xng4ld44o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">labelling him a &#8220;future leader&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This has been an extremely frustrating season for me on a personal note and I&#8217;m really sad it&#8217;s come to an end,&#8221; Broad <a href=\"https:\/\/nccc.co.uk\/news\/justin-broad-to-miss-rest-of-the-season-through-injury\/\" 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;However, it&#8217;s been great to see the boys doing so well and I&#8217;ll be supporting them in the upcoming months as we push for a strong finish to the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northants are third in County Championship Division Two and are also leading the T20 Blast Central &amp; West group after winning nine out of 10 games, already securing a place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They next make the trip to Somerset on Friday (18:30 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire all-rounder Justin Broad has been ruled out for the remainder of the 2026 season with a lower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684351","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\/684351","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=684351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}