{"id":268172,"date":"2025-11-17T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268172\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:31:09","slug":"archie-vaughan-somerset-teenage-prospect-signs-new-deal-to-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268172\/","title":{"rendered":"Archie Vaughan: Somerset teenage prospect signs new deal to 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teenage all-rounder Archie Vaughan has signed a new deal with Somerset that keeps him at the club until the end of the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 19-year-old son of former England Ashes-winning captain Michael broke into Somerset&#8217;s first team in 2024 and was named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cx2w2nz74z0o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England Under-19 captain<\/a> during their tour of South Africa in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vaughan, who has been part of Somerset&#8217;s academy since 2020, has taken 40 wickets and scored 1,094 runs in 35 List A and first-class matches for the county during the past two seasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited and it means a lot to know that the club have confidence in me,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/somersetcountycc.co.uk\/news\/first-xi\/contract-extension-for-archie\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vaughan told the Somerset website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hope I can reward their faith with winning performances on the field. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I just want to keep doing what I&#8217;m doing, learning and improving all the time and hopefully taking my game to the next level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to get better in all aspects of my game, and I want to become a genuine all-rounder &#8211; that will give me the best chance of making an impact in every game.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenage all-rounder Archie Vaughan has signed a new deal with Somerset that keeps him at the club until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-268172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268172","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=268172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}