{"id":700485,"date":"2026-05-28T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700485\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:46:08","slug":"glamorgan-sign-new-zealander-neesham-to-soften-fazalhaq-farooqi-t20-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700485\/","title":{"rendered":"Glamorgan sign New Zealander Neesham to soften Fazalhaq Farooqi T20 blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan have signed experienced New Zealand all-rounder Jimmy Neesham after losing paceman Fazalhaq Farooqi for the rest of their T20 Blast campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farooqi has been recalled by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neesham, 35, has played 105 T20 internationals, including playing in the recent World Cup final against India in which he took three wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has played for Welsh Fire in the Hundred &#8211; plus Derbyshire, Durham, Essex and Kent &#8211; and has extensive franchise experience around the world including the Indian Premier League (IPL), Australia&#8217;s Big Bash, and leagues in South Africa, Pakistan and West Indies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c4gx93k1l98o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Farroqi, 25, signed in March<\/a> and played in the opening two games of this season&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan have signed experienced New Zealand all-rounder Jimmy Neesham after losing paceman Fazalhaq Farooqi for the rest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-700485","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\/700485","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=700485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}