{"id":111314,"date":"2025-09-01T17:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111314\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:57:11","slug":"darcy-short-gloucestershire-re-sign-australia-batter-for-2026-t20-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111314\/","title":{"rendered":"D&#8217;Arcy Short: Gloucestershire re-sign Australia batter for 2026 T20 Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire cricket have re-signed Australia&#8217;s D&#8217;Arcy Short for the 2026 T20 Blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old is the leading run-scorer so far in the competition this season, with 551 &#8211; including five half centuries, at an average of 42.38, ahead of the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-hander, who can also bowl spin, joined the club this season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/ckg77zy91k3o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for the group stage<\/a> of the Blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s so great to see D&#8217;Arcy back for the 2026 Blast. After a slow start, he proved to be such a brilliant addition to the Glorious, becoming the leading run-scorer across the two groups,&#8221; said head coach Mark Alleyne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is much more than that, though, as some of his innings can really put the opponent on the back foot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His bowling, too, can offer an option to complement our attack, so we look forward to his return.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire cricket have re-signed Australia&#8217;s D&#8217;Arcy Short for the 2026 T20 Blast. The 35-year-old is the leading run-scorer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-111314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}