{"id":126069,"date":"2025-09-09T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126069\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:24:07","slug":"sean-dickson-to-join-glamorgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126069\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Dickson to Join Glamorgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glamorgan County Cricket Club is pleased to confirm that Sean Dickson will join the Club from Somerset CCC on a two-year deal at the end of the 2025 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>South African-born Dickson, who powered his side through to the Vitality Blast Finals Day on Saturday night with a sensational knock of 71 off just 26 balls, has been one of the most dynamic and consistent performers in the T20 tournament since moving to the UK in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Sean has over 100 First-Class appearances, scoring more than 5,000 runs in red-ball cricket, with a career-best of 318. We\u2019re excited to see the vastly experienced right-handed batter wear the Daffodil at the Home of Welsh Cricket next season.<\/p>\n<p>Having represented Kent, Durham and Somerset in all formats, Dickson joins the Club with a wealth of experience, having also played domestic cricket in his native South Africa with Northerns in Centurion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Sean\u2019s upcoming arrival, Glamorgan Director of Cricket Mark Wallace said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted that Sean has agreed to join Glamorgan for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSean is one of the most explosive middle-order T20 batters in the country, and is a proven top four option in 4-day cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Sam Northeast heading back to Kent, Sean will add to the experience of our batting unit and we\u2019re looking forward to welcoming him to Wales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan County Cricket Club is pleased to confirm that Sean Dickson will join the Club from Somerset CCC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-126069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}