Lategan, said he was thrilled at the prospect of making the step up to professional grade cricket after a couple of promising years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a dream come true to be signing my first pro contract. I\u2019m very thankful for everyone that has helped me along the way and I couldn\u2019t be happier!<\/p>\n
\u201cRepresenting such a great club is an honour. The lads at the club are a great bunch and the changing room is a great environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very excited to be working closely with the coaches and feel my game can constantly improve with their guidance.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy ambition is to contribute to winning games for Worcestershire. I\u2019d love to break into the first team and prove myself at the professional level and hopefully help Worcestershire win games in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
CEO Ashley Giles added, \u201cwe see Dan having huge potential in the medium and long term.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has all the skills to make him a really successful first class cricketer.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur focus is on building a squad that combines the best emerging talent with the quality and experience of our senior players, both are equally important to our future long term success.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lategan\u2019s professional contract will take effect from 1 November 2025, with him registered as one of the Club\u2019s overseas players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lategan, said he was thrilled at the prospect of making the step up to professional grade cricket after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-294760","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\/114922763442279730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294760","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=294760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}