{"id":203686,"date":"2025-10-16T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/203686\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:33:08","slug":"darren-stevens-kent-legend-returns-to-club-as-bowling-consultant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/203686\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Stevens: Kent legend returns to club as bowling consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stevens amassed almost 17,000 runs and took 591 wickets in first-class matches during a career which began in 1997 with Leicestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He moved to Kent in 2005 and played there for the rest of his career, winning five trophies, including two T20 Blast titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, Stevens made 45 centuries and 146 half centuries in 25 years as a professional player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pakistani former batter Jaahid Alli also joins the club as batting coach, while former academy and women&#8217;s coach Sam Faulkner will take charge of the bowlers in a coaching shake-up which has seen Toby Radford and Robbie Joseph leave the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With Sam and Jaahid, there will be clear guidance and mentoring for our young talent at first-team, academy and pathway level to make any transition to a higher level more seamless from a playing perspective,&#8221; Cook added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Both Sam and Jaahid have worked closely with our talent pathway for a number of years now and are both held in high regard by our pathway players and staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stevens amassed almost 17,000 runs and took 591 wickets in first-class matches during a career which began in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-203686","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\/203686","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=203686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}