{"id":85079,"date":"2025-08-22T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85079\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:21:09","slug":"matthew-breetzke-south-africa-batter-signs-two-year-northants-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85079\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Breetzke: South Africa batter signs two-year Northants deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa batter Matthew Breetzke has signed a two-year, all formats contract with Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old, who first played for the club last summer, has scored 403 runs in this season&#8217;s T20 Blast and will return for the quarter-final against Surrey on 3 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Breetzke has appeared in two Tests, three one-dayers and 10 T20 internationals for The Proteas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Matt is an extremely talented young man who has so much quality with the bat and in the field,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/nccc.co.uk\/news\/matt-breetzke-signs-two-year-all-formats-deal-with-northamptonshire\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said Northants head coach Darren Lehmann, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He adds so much to the team and we can&#8217;t wait to see more of him over the next couple of seasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northants won the T20 Blast in 2013 and 2016 and are hoping to reach Finals Day for the first time since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted to sign with Northamptonshire for two more seasons.&#8221; Breetzke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have a big quarter-final at The Oval coming up and I can&#8217;t wait to get out there and push to make Finals Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa batter Matthew Breetzke has signed a two-year, all formats contract with Northamptonshire. The 26-year-old, who first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-85079","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\/85079","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=85079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}