{"id":11276,"date":"2025-02-28T19:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/durham-all-rounder-ben-raine-agrees-new-three-year-contract\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T19:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:21:39","slug":"durham-all-rounder-ben-raine-agrees-new-three-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/durham-all-rounder-ben-raine-agrees-new-three-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham all-rounder Ben Raine agrees new three-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ben Raine has agreed a new three-year contract to remain with Durham until the end of the 2027 county season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunderland-born Raine came through Durham&#8217;s academy before a spell at Leicestershire and a return to Chester-le-Street in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The seam-bowling all-rounder was the leading wicket-taker in Division Two in 2023 with 60 as Durham won the title. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raine backed that up last summer, averaging 31 with the bat and just under 30 with the ball as the club finished fifth on their top-flight return. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am thrilled to be offered the opportunity to extend my career here at Durham,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamcricket.co.uk\/news-and-media\/ben-raine-extends-durham-deal\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the club&#8217;s website<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club&#8217;s in a great place and the opportunity to enjoy the final few years of my career at my home club with some great people is an absolute honour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cn52xw2z6v9o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Raine has agreed a new three-year contract to remain with Durham until the end of the 2027 county season. Sunderland-born Raine came through Durham&#8217;s academy before a spell at Leicestershire and a return to Chester-le-Street in 2019. The seam-bowling all-rounder was the leading wicket-taker in Division Two in 2023 with 60 as Durham won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11278,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions\/11278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}