{"id":99111,"date":"2025-08-28T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99111\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:20:13","slug":"sam-northeast-championship-captain-to-leave-glamorgan-and-rejoin-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99111\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Northeast: Championship captain to leave Glamorgan and rejoin Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as his Glamorgan record score, Northeast also made history at Lord&#8217;s by hitting 335 not out against Middlesex in April 2024, beating the previous record first-class score at cricket headquarters by former England batter Graham Gooch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although better known for his Championship endeavours, Northeast topped the Glamorgan averages in both T20 Blast and One-Day Cup cricket in 2024, named player of the match in Glamorgan&#8217;s win over Somerset in the One-Day Cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he did not feature in the 2025 Blast and made only two appearances in the One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It goes without saying that I&#8217;ve absolutely loved my time here&#8230; I found my passion for playing cricket again here,&#8221; Northeast said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had four great years at Sophia Gardens and I&#8217;m very proud of what I&#8217;ve been able to achieve, both personally and with my team-mates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With three matches left in the Championship, Northeast has 3,619 runs in 51 red-ball matches for Glamorgan with an average of more than 48.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kiran Carlson has led the county in limited-overs cricket for five years, and also stood in during July&#8217;s Championship win over Kent when Northeast was on paternity leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as his Glamorgan record score, Northeast also made history at Lord&#8217;s by hitting 335 not out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-99111","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\/99111","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=99111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}