{"id":652173,"date":"2026-05-06T00:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652173\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:24:20","slug":"thomas-rew-somerset-teenage-prospect-extends-contract-to-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652173\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rew: Somerset teenage prospect extends contract to 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teenage wicketkeeper-batter Thomas Rew has signed a new contract with Somerset until the end of the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old penned his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cp3kqeg51v0o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first professional deal<\/a> with the county in July last year which was due to run until October 2027, after making his debut in the T20 Blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rew and older brother James, 21 &#8211; who has established himself in Somerset&#8217;s first XI &#8211; are among England cricket&#8217;s brightest young talents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He captained England&#8217;s Under-19s as they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cwynv1dydrko\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reached a World Cup final<\/a> in February and also toured Australia with England Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Opportunities such as those with the England U19s and the England Lions have arrived pretty fast for me in the last 12 months and events have happened in my cricketing journey so far that I wasn&#8217;t necessarily expecting,&#8221; Rew said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful to Somerset for all the opportunities they have given me so far. I just try to take one match at a time and not look too far ahead, an approach which really helped me last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenage wicketkeeper-batter Thomas Rew has signed a new contract with Somerset until the end of the 2028 season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-652173","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\/652173","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=652173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}