England fast bowler Sonny Baker has signed a two-year contract extension with Hampshire to stay until the end of the 2028 season.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old moved to the club in 2025 from Somerset and has since taken 47 wickets in 22 matches (36 of those in 11 first-class matches).<\/p>\n
He has been a regular presence for Hampshire at the start of the 2026 season, playing in four of their five County Championship matches, claiming 14 wickets. <\/p>\n
“My main aims for this year were to earn the respect of the senior players by demonstrating more consistency in performance,” Baker said. <\/p>\n
“I feel I’ve come a long way since last year, all thanks to the experiences I’ve had here.”<\/p>\n
Baker has represented England twice – once in a heavy One-Day International defeat against South Africa<\/a> and then in a T20 win against Ireland<\/a> three weeks later – and is hoping to make his Test debut this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n He was named in England’s squad for their Test match against New Zealand at Lord’s from 4 June.<\/p>\n “Sonny has established himself as a key member of the team, and it has been great to witness his development over the course of his time with us,” said Hampshire director of cricket Giles White.<\/p>\n “He brings a fantastic outlook on life and has made the most of every opportunity, adding skill to complement his natural pace. <\/p>\n “He is fully committed, has an exceptional attitude, and we are delighted to have him as part of the setup”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England fast bowler Sonny Baker has signed a two-year contract extension with Hampshire to stay until the end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-668688","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\/668688","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=668688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}