{"id":126391,"date":"2025-09-10T00:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126391\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:28:10","slug":"sean-dickson-somerset-batter-to-join-glamorgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126391\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Dickson: Somerset batter to join Glamorgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan director of cricket Mark Wallace said: &#8220;Sean is one of the most explosive middle-order T20 batters in the country and is a proven top-four option in four-day cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With Sam Northeast heading back to Kent, Sean will add to the experience of our batting unit and we&#8217;re looking forward to welcoming him to Wales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dickson has scored 5,464 first-class runs at an average of 31.95 with a top score of 318 for Kent, but has been more prominent in T20 cricket while at Somerset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dickson top-scored in both the semi-final and final as Somerset emerged triumphant in the T20 Blast in 2023, while he again helped them reach the final last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He top-scored for Durham in the 2021 One Day Cup final against Glamorgan hitting 84, and made 44 for Somerset against Glamorgan in the 2024 final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">News of Dickson&#8217;s move to Wales comes shortly after his brilliant innings of 71 from 26 balls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/live\/c20127128n4t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saw Somerset beat Bears<\/a> to claim a place at T20 Finals Day for the fifth year in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan director of cricket Mark Wallace said: &#8220;Sean is one of the most explosive middle-order T20 batters in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-126391","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\/126391","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=126391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}