{"id":810420,"date":"2026-10-22T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/810420\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:04:12","slug":"northamptonshire-bowler-raphy-weatherall-extends-deal-to-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/810420\/","title":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire bowler Raphy Weatherall extends deal to 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northamptonshire fast bowler Raphy Weatherall has signed a contract extension that will keep him with the county until at least the end of the 2028 season.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old, who graduated from a law degree at Exeter University in June, has featured in 29 games over the past three seasons across all formats, claiming 41 wickets.<\/p>\n

His playing time has been fragmented by injury, but he returned to feature in this season’s One-Day Cup, taking 4-56 against Warwickshire in July.<\/p>\n

“At a personal level I have worked meticulously on my fitness and strength and I’m delighted to have remained injury free throughout the season,” he told the club’s website., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“The new contract enables me to build on this progress and a full-time commitment with the club can only bring greater opportunity and I am really looking forward to working with the team in the coming seasons.”<\/p>\n

The deal is a one-year extension to the three-year contract Weatherall – a former England Under-19 international – signed in 2024, the year in which he made his debut for the county.<\/p>\n

“Raphy is a very exciting young talent who has a very high ceiling,” said head coach Darren Lehmann.<\/p>\n

“He’s obviously had some pretty big injuries which we’ll continue to manage but we’re all looking forward for what’s to come from him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire fast bowler Raphy Weatherall has signed a contract extension that will keep him with the county until…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-810420","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\/810420","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=810420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}