{"id":39557,"date":"2026-03-03T02:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/lancashire-rocky-flintoff-signs-contract-extension\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:58:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:58:49","slug":"lancashire-rocky-flintoff-signs-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/lancashire-rocky-flintoff-signs-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire: Rocky Flintoff signs contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Lancashire all-rounder Rocky Flintoff has signed a two-year contract extension keeping him with the county until 2027.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 17-year-old son of former Lancashire and England all-rounder Freddie Flintoff joins fellow Lancashire academy graduates Tom Aspinwall, 21, and Charlie Barnard, 21, in agreeing deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flintoff made his List A debut for Lancashire in the One-Day Cup in July 2024, becoming the club&#8217;s youngest-ever player at 16 years and 113 days old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has since featured in five County Championship matches and scored 180 runs in List A cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Manchester Grammar schoolboy became the youngest England Under-19s centurion, beating Ian Bell&#8217;s 25-year-old record. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He followed that by becoming  the youngest England Lions centurion against  Cricket Australia in January 2025, beating his father&#8217;s record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Red Rose director of cricket performance, Mark Chilton, said: &#8220;We are really pleased to secure the futures of Tom, Charlie and Rocky \u2013 underlining the club&#8217;s continued commitment to investing in, and developing, our own homegrown talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All three players are of extremely high potential and have progressed through our pathway system to make an impression at first-team level. Their continued development is central to our future plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We look forward to supporting Tom, Charlie and Rocky as they continue to push their careers forward with Lancashire Cricket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c1jkexdjygeo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lancashire all-rounder Rocky Flintoff has signed a two-year contract extension keeping him with the county until 2027. The 17-year-old son of former Lancashire and England all-rounder Freddie Flintoff joins fellow Lancashire academy graduates Tom Aspinwall, 21, and Charlie Barnard, 21, in agreeing deals. Flintoff made his List A debut for Lancashire in the One-Day Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39559,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39557\/revisions\/39559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}