Glamorgan opening batters Eddie Byrom and Will Smale have signed contract extensions for a further two seasons.<\/p>\n
Byrom, 28, featured in every game of the Metro Bank One-Day Cup this season, top-scoring with 94 at Gloucestershire followed by some powerful knocks up the order.<\/p>\n
Smale, 24, has had yet another positive white-ball year, as the right-handed batter played in all Glamorgan’s Vitality Blast and Metro Bank One-Day Cup games.<\/p>\n
Transitioning to the middle order for the 50-over competition, Newport-born Smale had a successful campaign batting at number five – scoring a century at Surrey and a crucial 83 not out in the win over Leicestershire Foxes.<\/p>\n
He also kept wicket after Alex Horton’s injury at the halfway point of the One-Day Cup, as he did throughout the winning campaign the season before.<\/p>\n
Glamorgan director of cricket Mark Wallace said: “Will has shown over the last few years his ability to influence games in white-ball cricket with the bat and behind the stumps.<\/p>\n
“He scored an excellent maiden hundred in the 50-over competition this year and we look forward to him pushing for a place in the first team across all formats in the coming years.<\/p>\n
“Eddie has been a consistent performer since joining from Somerset and, though he hasn’t played as much first-team cricket as he would have like this season, adds a huge amount to our batting unit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan opening batters Eddie Byrom and Will Smale have signed contract extensions for a further two seasons. Byrom,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-154931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154931","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=154931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}