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    "title": "Blair Tickner Returns To Derbyshire For The 2025 Season",
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    "excerpt": "Blair Tickner: New Zealand pacer Blair Tickner will return to Derbyshire for the 2025 season, the county club announced on Thursday. The 31-year-old initially joined Derbyshire for the 2024 campaign and featured in seven matches across the County Championship and Vitality Blast, before returning to New Zealand early, after his wife Sarah was diagnosed with leukaemia.",
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    "editor1": "Blair Tickner: New Zealand pacer Blair Tickner will return to Derbyshire for the 2025 season, the county club announced on Thursday. The 31-year-old initially joined Derbyshire for the 2024 campaign and featured in seven matches across the County Championship and Vitality Blast, before returning to New Zealand early, after his wife Sarah was diagnosed with leukaemia.<p>With Sarah now on the road to recovery, Blair will rejoin Mickey Arthur\u2019s side for all formats in 2025. He has played for his nation 34 times, claiming 47 international wickets, while his career haul stands at 450. He is currently among the leading wicket-takers in the Plunket Shield (first-class), Ford Trophy (List A), and Super Smash (T20) this season, with a combined 31 dismissals.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cDespite everything, I loved my first spell with Derbyshire and I\u2019ve kept in touch with the players and coaches, the club has supported me massively and I\u2019m looking forward to getting back to England and showing what I can do,\" Tickner said in a statement. \u201cI think everyone would agree that I have unfinished business with Derbyshire, I couldn\u2019t show my quality the first time around and I\u2019m coming back hungry to do just that and win games for the county,\u201d he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Head of cricket, Mickey Arthur said, \u201cWe never got to see the best of Blair in his first spell with us, a lot was going on off the field, but he was the consummate professional and we were always eager to bring him back for 2025.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cHis record deserved to be better last season, we dropped chances off his bowling and if we take those, his average comes right down. I\u2019m confident we will be better in that regard in 2025, and Blair should reap the rewards because he\u2019s a very good bowler.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Head of cricket, Mickey Arthur said, \u201cWe never got to see the best of Blair in his first spell with us, a lot was going on off the field, but he was the consummate professional and we were always eager to bring him back for 2025.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b>Also Read: <\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/tagging\/highest-tax-paying-cricketers\">Highest tax paying cricketers<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Article Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ians.in\/english-wire\/sports\/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">IANS<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n",
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