{"id":30114,"date":"2025-07-29T02:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30114\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:54:14","slug":"heather-knight-england-international-signs-new-somerset-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30114\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Knight: England international signs new Somerset contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former England captain Heather Knight has signed a new contract with Somerset until the end of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old captained her country to victory in the 2017 World Cup and has 295 caps across all formats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Knight, who has scored 7,298 runs and taken 84 wickets for England, has not played for Somerset since May after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c5ygjg1yvz9o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">picking up a hamstring injury<\/a> against West Indies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really pleased to have extended my time with Somerset,&#8221; she told the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/somersetcountycc.co.uk\/news\/womens\/heather-signs-somerset-contract-extension\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a club that means a lot to my family and I, and I feel a huge amount of pride every time I pull on the shirt.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England captain Heather Knight has signed a new contract with Somerset until the end of the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-30114","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\/30114","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=30114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}