{"id":237325,"date":"2025-11-01T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237325\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:35:11","slug":"marchant-de-lange-bowler-signs-new-gloucestershire-deal-to-play-t20-only-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237325\/","title":{"rendered":"Marchant de Lange: Bowler signs new Gloucestershire deal to play T20 only in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire pace-bowler Marchant de Lange has signed a one-year extension to play T20-only cricket with the club in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former South Africa international has taken 21 wickets in 16 T20 matches for Gloucestershire in his three seasons with the club so far &#8211; including 11 in 2024 as the side won the Blast title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has another 41 wickets with an average of 32.85 in first-class cricket for the county since joining from Somerset in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old missed much of last season with multiple injuries and his new deal will allow him to continue playing in franchise tournaments alongside Gloucestershire&#8217;s Blast campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of internal thought process went into it, injuries here and there but also looking to the future &#8211; I think I can make the most impact for Glos in the T20 format,&#8221; De Lange told the <a href=\"https:\/\/gloscricket.co.uk\/news\/gloucestershire-cricket-club-is-delighted-to-announce-that-marchant-de-lange-has-signed-a-one-year-t20-blast-contract.\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to play as long as possible, I think I can contribute loads in the shorter format.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire pace-bowler Marchant de Lange has signed a one-year extension to play T20-only cricket with the club in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-237325","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\/237325","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=237325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}