{"id":256173,"date":"2025-11-11T04:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256173\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T04:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:29:11","slug":"migael-pretorius-south-african-all-rounder-re-joins-somerset-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256173\/","title":{"rendered":"Migael Pretorius: South African all-rounder re-joins Somerset for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset have re-signed all-rounder Migael Pretorius for the 2026 season on a multi-format contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This will be the South African&#8217;s third spell at the County Ground having first joined in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old has scored 550 runs in 16 matches across all formats for the club and also taken 52 wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He claimed three for 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cj9z2xrgr0po\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the T20 Blast semi-final<\/a>, as Somerset overcame Lancashire on Finals Day before going on to clinch their third title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset director of cricket Andy Hurry said: &#8220;From the moment he arrived in 2024, Migael wholeheartedly bought into the culture of the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;During his two previous spells with the club, he has shown that he has the ability to impact games with the bat, with the ball and in the field, and he will once again add valuable depth and experience to the squad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somerset have re-signed all-rounder Migael Pretorius for the 2026 season on a multi-format contract. This will be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-256173","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\/256173","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=256173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}