{"id":789770,"date":"2026-10-02T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789770\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:42:08","slug":"charlie-harmison-son-of-ashes-winner-steve-harmison-signs-durham-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789770\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Harmison: Son of Ashes-winner Steve Harmison signs Durham deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlie Harmison, son of 2005 Ashes winner Steve, has signed a two-year deal with Durham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harmison, 18, is a fast bowler like his father, who made 63 Test appearances for England between 2002 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is the fourth son of members of the team which won the Ashes urn back after an 18-year wait to sign professional terms with a County Championship club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Michael Vaughan&#8217;s son Archie is with Somerset, while all-rounder Andrew Flintoff&#8217;s sons Rocky and Corey are at Lancashire and Kent respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m buzzing to have signed my first rookie deal,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamcricket.co.uk\/news-and-media\/bowman-symington-harmison-pen-rookie-deals\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harmison told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to the hard work that lies ahead and hopefully contributing to helping the club to success in years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steve Harmison was part of the Durham side that won the County Championship title in 2008 and 2009 and retired in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Chester-le-Street side were promoted back to the top flight this season after winning the Division Two title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wicketkeeper-batter Robbie Bowman, 19, and batter Luke Symington, 18, have also signed rookie deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Harmison, son of 2005 Ashes winner Steve, has signed a two-year deal with Durham. Harmison, 18, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789770","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\/789770","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=789770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}