{"id":780506,"date":"2026-09-24T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780506\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:40:10","slug":"nick-kelly-leicestershire-lose-batter-to-rib-injury-for-final-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780506\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kelly: Leicestershire lose batter to rib injury for final match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batter Nick Kelly will miss Leicestershire&#8217;s last-ditch effort to avoid County Championship relegation after suffering a rib injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old was hurt in the the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cmgl75335dlgo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foxes&#8217; victory against Hampshire<\/a> last week &#8211; a game in which he produced a second-innings top score of 86 to help ensure Leicestershire took their battle to avoid the drop to the final round of fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the injury, he went on to feature in Sunday&#8217;s One-Day Cup final and even top-scored with 103 as Leicestershire were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c3vgylgqz8p8o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beaten by Middlesex<\/a> at Trent Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The injury, however, has brought an abrupt end to the New Zealander&#8217;s campaign on the eve of the Foxes&#8217; must-win match against title-chasing Warwickshire at Edgbaston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thank you for everything you&#8217;ve given in a Foxes shirt, Nick,&#8221; the club posted on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In such a short space of time, you&#8217;ve written your name into Leicestershire history and become a true club legend.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Batter Nick Kelly will miss Leicestershire&#8217;s last-ditch effort to avoid County Championship relegation after suffering a rib injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780506","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\/780506","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=780506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}