Lategan\u00a0raring\u00a0to rip into 2026 One Day Cup\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
After bursting onto the scene in last year\u2019s unforgettable Metro Bank One Day Cup campaign, teenage star Dan Lategan says his Worcestershire teammates are \u201cthriving\u201d on the eve of the 2026 tournament opener.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Beginning their title defence at home to Derbyshire Falcons, the Rapids will be eager to replicate last summer\u2019s group stage form, which saw the side lose just one game, after a gripping opening day tie away at Nottinghamshire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Faultless from then onwards however, Alan Richardson\u2019s men gelled in remarkable fashion, capturing the essence of\u00a0One Day Cup\u00a0cricket in a harmonious and equally competitive manner\u00a0that saw the team lift their first piece\u00a0of List A silverware in 18 years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Surging his name into the limelight midway through the group stages, Dan took his chance with both hands, becoming a mainstay of the team for the\u00a0remainder\u00a0of the competition with countless eye-catching knocks along the way.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Buoyed by the fairytale ending to his first summer in professional cricket, Worcestershire\u2019s\u00a0young-pro\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0wait to start the title defence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI really enjoy fifty over cricket, so it is a competition I am really looking forward to getting started and hopefully it is a good one for the team.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere might be a bit of pressure on us, but\u00a0I think we\u00a0are fine with that. To be honest, as the holders we take massive pride in that and we are going into defend it!\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be a great occasion at New Road against Derbyshire, and home form is something that we pride ourselves on so hopefully that can\u00a0play in our favour.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year was a great memory, but we want to back it up and go back-to-back.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lategan\u00a0raring\u00a0to rip into 2026 One Day Cup\u00a0\u00a0 After bursting onto the scene in last year\u2019s unforgettable Metro Bank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707975","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\/707975","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=707975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}