{"id":296344,"date":"2025-12-03T07:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296344\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:33:15","slug":"will-smeed-somerset-opening-batter-signs-extension-to-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296344\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smeed: Somerset opening batter signs extension to 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somerset batter Will Smeed has signed a contract extension to remain at the club until the end of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old starred during Somerset’s six-wicket victory over Hampshire<\/a> in September’s T20 Blast final at Edgbaston, smashing 94 off just 58 balls to claim the player of the match award as his club picked up their third Blast title.<\/p>\n

The club also confirmed Smeed will be available for both red-ball and white-ball cricket after he amended his contract to enable him to play all formats<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

“Somerset is where I’ve been for my whole career, so this feels great,” Smeed, whose previous deal was due to expire next year, told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“I love the group, I love the ground, I love the members and supporters, and I just love playing my cricket here.<\/p>\n

“Last season’s Vitality Blast win was very special and experiences like that just make you hungry for more.<\/p>\n

“I want to break into the [County Championship] team and solidify my place in red-ball cricket. That’s definitely a goal for this year.”<\/p>\n

Smeed has scored 2,290 runs in 81 T20 games for Somerset since making his debut against Worcestershire in 2020, hitting 17 half-centuries at an average of 30.13.<\/p>\n

He also became the first player to hit a century in The Hundred – 101 not out off 50 balls – while playing for Birmingham Phoenix against then-defending champions Southern Brave in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somerset batter Will Smeed has signed a contract extension to remain at the club until the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-296344","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\/296344","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=296344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}