{"id":162098,"date":"2025-09-22T23:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162098\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T23:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:45:36","slug":"alfie-ogborne-somerset-seamer-signs-new-deal-through-2027-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162098\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfie Ogborne: Somerset seamer signs new deal through 2027 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset seamer Alfie Ogborne has signed a contract extension to stay at the club until the end of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old has played in 20 matches for Somerset with the majority in List A games since making his debut in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ogborne came through the club&#8217;s academy system and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/czrmnxygn3do\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">part of the side that reached the One-Day Cup final<\/a> last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been really impressed by Alfie&#8217;s desire to improve every aspect of his game since joining the professional staff,&#8221; said director of cricket Andy Hurry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His enthusiasm and approach for the game are an example to any aspiring player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ogborne, who spent two matches on loan at Kent earlier this season, played in one County Championship match this season against Hampshire in April, taking two wickets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somerset seamer Alfie Ogborne has signed a contract extension to stay at the club until the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-162098","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\/162098","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=162098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}