{"id":16436,"date":"2025-06-29T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ben-compton-kent-batter-signs-new-three-year-contract\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:56:09","slug":"ben-compton-kent-batter-signs-new-three-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ben-compton-kent-batter-signs-new-three-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Compton: Kent batter signs 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\">Kent opener Ben Compton has signed a new three-year contract.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old is the leading run-scorer in County Championship Division Two this season with 895, having scored 66 against Northamptonshire on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Compton has scored 5,704 runs in 74 first-class matches at an average of 45.26, while hitting 1,143 runs in 26 List A games with an average of 45.72 during his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across all formats, he has scored more than 4,700 of those runs for Kent. His new deal will keep him with the club until 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Kent has become my home and I&#8217;m delighted to further my playing career here,&#8221; he told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentcricket.co.uk\/news\/ben-compton-signs-new-three-year-kent-contract\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">club website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The current landscape provides an opportunity for us as a team to strive and push ourselves beyond, towards seeing this prestigious and historic club return to its former heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m excited and fully driven to be a part of that journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cly8g2dypnro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent opener Ben Compton has signed a new three-year contract. The 31-year-old is the leading run-scorer in County Championship Division Two this season with 895, having scored 66 against Northamptonshire on Sunday. Compton has scored 5,704 runs in 74 first-class matches at an average of 45.26, while hitting 1,143 runs in 26 List A games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16436","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\/16436","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=16436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16438,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16436\/revisions\/16438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}