Ben Compton celebrated being handed both his county cap and a new three-year contract by making 66 on day one of Kent’s County Championship game with Northants at Canterbury. The hosts were 325-4 at stumps, with Tawanda Muyeye hitting 58 and captain Daniel Bell-Drummond unbeaten on 66. Liam Guthrie took 2-54 but it was a...
Former England and Northamptonshire batter Wayne Larkins has died at the age of 71. Larkins, nicknamed Ned, played 13 Tests and 25 one-day internationals for England between 1979 and 1991, and was part of the side that reached the 1979 World Cup final. He made 716 appearances for Northamptonshire across first-class and one-day formats, scoring...
Josh de Caires struck 87, his highest first-class score, following a five-for by Zafar Gohar to put Middlesex in a strong position at the end of day three of their County Championship match against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road. Playing his first game of the season, de Caires, who has batted at seven for the last...
Northamptonshire’s lead bowling coach Rory Kleinveldt will leave the club next month to become head coach of Western Province in his native South Africa. The 42-year-old made 109 appearances as a player for the Steelbacks, taking 217 wickets in total and helping them win the T20 Blast in 2016. The former seamer, who played four...
Rain put paid to the prospect of an exciting finish at Wantage Road as Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire were forced to settle for a draw in the County Championship. The Division Two contest had been nicely poised when the weather intervened, with Gloucestershire on 214-6, needing another 136 from a minimum of 24.2 overs. Northamptonshire had...
Both sides came into the game on the back of a first win of the campaign and Northants, who included Justin Broad for Liam Guthrie, got off to a solid start partly thanks to a generous helping of leg-byes. Fifty came up in the 14th over before Ricardo Vasconcelos (18) clipped Gorvin to Asa Tribe...
Northamptonshire have confirmed they are searching for an overseas replacement for the T20 Blast after Australian all-rounder Ashton Agar was ruled out with injury. Agar had been booked to reprise his 2024 role at Wantage Road for the domestic T20 competition which starts on 29 May. But the 31-year-old confirmed he will not now return...
Jon Ironmonger BBC Investigations, Northamptonshire Dawid Wojtowicz/BBC Rockingham 161 looms over houses in Hooke Close in Corby Bang in the middle of England, Northamptonshire has more storage and distribution centres than anywhere else in the country. Corby, for example, is home to dozens of towering “mega-sheds”, including Europa’s worldwide HQ and Nike’s forthcoming logistics campus....
Kent’s South African paceman Keith Dudgeon took four wickets to all but shatter Northamptonshire’s hopes of chasing 260 on day two of their County Championship match at Wantage Road. On a day which encompassed parts of three innings and saw 20 wickets fall, Dudgeon claimed 4-32, including three in nine balls, as Northamptonshire stumbled to...
Three people have died after a house fire in a village. Firefighters, police officers, and paramedics were called to the blaze at the former station house in Beswick Close, in Rushton, near Kettering, Northamptonshire, at about 22:30 GMT on Friday. Northamptonshire Police said three people later died. Three police officers needed hospital assessment after breathing...
Northamptonshire have signed Australian pace bowler Harry Conway on a short-term contract for four County Championship games. The 32-year-old has taken 119 first-class wickets at an average of 28.86, eight of them in three games for South Australia in this winter’s Sheffield Shield. He will be available for the Division Two fixtures against Leicestershire, Lancashire,...