{"id":218612,"date":"2025-10-22T19:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218612\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:53:11","slug":"david-payne-gloucestershire-bowler-signs-new-contract-until-2028-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218612\/","title":{"rendered":"David Payne: Gloucestershire bowler signs new contract until 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire bowler David Payne has signed a new two-year deal with the club to stay until the end of the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old was Gloucestershire&#8217;s leading wicket-taker in the 2025 Blast with 17 this season as he reached 150 T20 appearances and surpassed 200 wickets for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Payne, who is the club&#8217;s longest-serving player, came through the Gloucestershire academy and his new deal will see him continue to play white-ball only cricket, as he has done since 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His contributions are immense and a player with that expertise and experience would make any county stronger,&#8221; said head coach Mark Alleyne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A consummate professional, it is a privilege to have him leading the Glosters through some more Blast campaigns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alongside playing last season, Payne also worked as a fast-bowling coach for Gloucestershire&#8217;s women&#8217;s team for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire bowler David Payne has signed a new two-year deal with the club to stay until the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-218612","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\/218612","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=218612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}