{"id":161864,"date":"2025-09-26T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161864\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:25:08","slug":"keith-barker-hampshire-all-rounder-on-his-tough-year-following-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161864\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Barker: Hampshire all-rounder on his ‘tough year’ following ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the completion of his 12-month-ban, Barker has been able to make two appearances for Hampshire to close out the season.<\/p>\n

After playing for Hampshire’s second side, Barker returned to the first-team once more for County Championship contests against Sussex and Somerset.<\/p>\n

“Not being able to be around my team-mates and train properly was hard,” Barker added<\/p>\n

“Luckily I had my family there to support me but its then been great to get back into training recently and play some games for Hampshire.”<\/p>\n

The all-rounder will now return to Warwickshire where he spent 10 seasons between 2009 and 2018 – taking 357 wickets and scoring six first-class centuries.<\/p>\n

He also helped the club win the County Championship title in 2012.<\/a><\/p>\n

During his time at Hampshire, Barker took 179 first-class wickets at an average of 24. <\/p>\n

“If someone had said to me that I’d done better with my stats, especially at the back end of my career then I’d have taken it,” he added.<\/p>\n

“I’m really happy with how it’s gone but I couldn’t have done that without my team-mates, without them it wouldn’t have been possible.<\/p>\n

“Things don’t always go to plan but I’m grateful that I’ve been able to play and represent Hampshire again these last few weeks.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the completion of his 12-month-ban, Barker has been able to make two appearances for Hampshire to close…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-161864","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\/161864","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=161864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}