{"id":306162,"date":"2025-12-09T02:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306162\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T02:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:37:12","slug":"craig-overton-somerset-all-rounder-signs-new-three-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306162\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Overton: Somerset all-rounder signs new three-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset Director for Cricket, Andy Hurry said: &#8220;&#8221;His approach, work ethic, competitive mindset and will to succeed have taken him to the very top of his profession, and we very much look forward to him continuing to positively influence matches for Somerset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overton has spent his entire career in England with Somerset since making his debut for the club in 2012 and has won two T20 Blast titles as well as the fifty-over One Day Cup in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was part of the team that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/czdj31n7vnlo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat Hampshire Hawks in the T20 Blast final<\/a> in September, taking the first wicket of Chris Lynn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This place means everything to me and we&#8217;re a very close-knit unit. Hopefully, we can do some more special things over the next few years,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overton has won 15 international caps, eight in Tests and seven in one day internationals, and was in the 2017-18 and 2019 Ashes squads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His last appearance came in a tour of the West Indies in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somerset Director for Cricket, Andy Hurry said: &#8220;&#8221;His approach, work ethic, competitive mindset and will to succeed have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-306162","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\/306162","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=306162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}