{"id":786562,"date":"2026-09-29T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786562\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:10:14","slug":"leicestershire-ben-cox-ben-mike-and-sam-wood-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786562\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicestershire: Ben Cox, Ben Mike and Sam Wood released"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leicestershire have released wicketkeeper-batter Ben Cox, all-rounder Ben Mike and seam bowler Sam Wood.<\/p>\n

The departure of the trio follows the Foxes’ relegation from Division One of the County Championship, although their fate remains in limbo<\/a> as the club appeals against a points deduction.<\/p>\n

Cox, 34, 28-year-old Mike, and Wood, 22, all played a part in Leicestershire’s Division Two title winning campaign in 2025 which returned the club to the top flight after more than two decades away.<\/p>\n

Former Worcestershire keeper Cox was the Foxes’ second highest scorer in Division One in 2026, with 728 runs.<\/p>\n

Leicestershire director of cricket Claude Henderson lauded Cox as “a fantastic professional” who played a part in “in some special moments” for East Midlands side.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mike featured 137 times across all competitions for Leicestershire across two spells, the second of which came after he had a stint with Yorkshire cut short.<\/p>\n

Like Mike, who also came through Leicestershire’s player pathway to earn a professional deal, seamer Wood moves on after a long association with the club.<\/p>\n

Wood first got involved with the Foxes at the age of nine, and went on to sign his first professional deal with the club a decade later.<\/p>\n

He last featured for Leicestershire in the T20 Blast in June before going on to join Nottinghamshire on a short-term loan to play in the One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire have released wicketkeeper-batter Ben Cox, all-rounder Ben Mike and seam bowler Sam Wood. The departure of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786562","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\/786562","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=786562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}