{"id":245060,"date":"2025-10-27T22:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245060\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:53:12","slug":"simon-fernandes-essex-wicketkeeper-signs-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245060\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Fernandes: Essex wicketkeeper signs two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex wicketkeeper Simon Fernandes has signed a two-year contract with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old has played 16 One-Day Cup matches for the club over the last two summers, scoring 173 runs and taking 23 catches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made his first class debut earlier this month for the MCC against Zimbabwe in Harare when he scored a career-best 71.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Simon&#8217;s journey is a brilliant example of hard work and perseverance paying off,&#8221; said Essex director of cricket Chris Silverwood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since coming through our second XI, he has put in some great performances throughout the One Day Cup competition, where he has become a key part of the side.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essex wicketkeeper Simon Fernandes has signed a two-year contract with the club. The 25-year-old has played 16 One-Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-245060","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\/245060","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=245060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}