{"id":689319,"date":"2026-07-13T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689319\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:39:08","slug":"northamptonshire-no-problem-with-our-t20-form-darren-lehmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689319\/","title":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire: No problem with our T20 form – Darren Lehmann"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northamptonshire head coach Darren Lehmann says there is “no problem” with his side’s form in the T20 Blast after progressing to the quarter-final.<\/p>\n

The Steelbacks lost three of their final four Central & West Group games, including a five-wicket defeat to Warwickshire<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

But Northants still comfortably topped the group to secure a home tie in the last eight against Gloucestershire on Wednesday after picking up more wins (9) and more points (36) than any other side in the competition.<\/p>\n

“It’s been excellent, we’ve won nine games, lost two of the last three and that can happen,” Lehmann told BBC Radio Northampton.<\/p>\n

“It’s chopping and changing sides to make sure everyone’s getting a run out just in case of an injury. We all got through pretty well.<\/p>\n

“We normally play a pretty settled side all the time. We got an advantage to do that in the last few games because we played so well. The results didn’t go our way.<\/p>\n

“There’s no problem. It’s not going to change how we want to play come Wednesday.”<\/p>\n

Northants will be aiming to reach a second successive T20 finals day when they host Gloucestershire, who finished third in their group and eight points behind.<\/p>\n

Despite facing the bottom seed, Lehmann says the group stage results count for nothing now.<\/p>\n

“Come Wednesday, results don’t matter. It doesn’t matter where you finish on the table,” the former Australian international added.<\/p>\n

“It’s how you play on Wednesday in front of a big crowd. We’ve just got to win that game and then you work on the next game. <\/p>\n

“It’s pretty much how we’ve planned the whole Blast campaign to be perfectly honest.”<\/p>\n

The Steelbacks have won the T20 Blast title twice – in 2013 and 2016 – but have not reached a final since their last success 10 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire head coach Darren Lehmann says there is “no problem” with his side’s form in the T20 Blast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689319","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\/689319","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=689319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}