{"id":178857,"date":"2025-06-12T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178857\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:53:10","slug":"rory-kleinveldt-northamptonshire-bowling-coach-to-become-western-province-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178857\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory Kleinveldt: Northamptonshire bowling coach to become Western Province boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Northamptonshire&#8217;s lead bowling coach Rory Kleinveldt will leave the club next month to become head coach of Western Province in his native South Africa.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former seamer, who played four Test matches for South Africa, returned to Northamptonshire to head up their bowling department in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kleinveldt will join Western Province in mid-July, having played for his home state for 17 years and been assistant coach there for two years before making the switch to Wantage Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone at Northamptonshire would like to thank Rory for all his dedication and contributions to the club both as a player and coach,&#8221; chief executive officer Ray Payne <a href=\"https:\/\/nccc.co.uk\/news\/rory-kleinveldt-to-leave-northamptonshire\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire&#8217;s lead bowling coach Rory Kleinveldt will leave the club next month to become head coach of Western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-178857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114671439331487327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}