{"id":193148,"date":"2025-06-18T01:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193148\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T01:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:28:16","slug":"james-anderson-to-captain-lancashire-in-their-next-two-county-championship-matches-against-kent-and-derbyshire-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193148\/","title":{"rendered":"James Anderson to captain Lancashire in their next two County Championship matches against Kent and Derbyshire | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Anderson will captain Lancashire for the first time in professional cricket when he steps in as skipper for the club’s next two County Championship fixtures.<\/p>\n

England’s all-time leading Test wicket-take, 41, will deputise for Marcus Harris, who has returned to Australia for the birth of his second child.<\/p>\n

Anderson will lead Lancashire – who sit second bottom of Division Two with five draws and two defeats from seven games – against Kent in Blackpool from Sunday and then for the match versus Derbyshire in Chesterfield from June 29.<\/p>\n

The paceman has only played one Championship match this season – taking five wickets in the home clash with Derbyshire – after missing the early rounds due to a calf strain.<\/p>\n

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Anderson took five wickets against Derbyshire in his sole Championship match so far this season<\/p>\n

Anderson has, though, bagged 10 wickets in four Vitality Blast matches for the Red Rose county, with three-wicket hauls against Worcestershire, Northamptonshire and Durham.<\/p>\n

He will become Lancashire’s third red-ball captain this term, after Harris and Keaton Jennings, with the latter quitting after the club’s poor start to the season.<\/p>\n

Interim head coach Steven Croft, who is in temporary charge following the departure of Dale Benkenstein, said of Anderson to BBC Sport: ” It is exciting for him and us.<\/p>\n

“He has captained only once and that was in a pre-season tour T20 game in Dubai so it will be nice for Jimmy and nice for the lads. He has obviously got a lot to offer on and off the field.<\/p>\n

“It will be a proud moment for him. It is not obviously all on Jimmy but it helps and his presence, particularly as captain, is a massive boost for the rest of the lads.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Anderson will captain Lancashire for the first time in professional cricket when he steps in as skipper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-193148","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\/114701776541269410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193148","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=193148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}