{"id":31080,"date":"2025-07-29T12:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31080\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:49:17","slug":"rehan-ahmed-leicestershires-england-all-rounder-on-game-of-life-against-derbyshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31080\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehan Ahmed: Leicestershire’s England all-rounder on ‘game of life’ against Derbyshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some, this was a clear message from Ahmed to England selectors, external<\/a> ahead of the Ashes series in Australia starting later this year.<\/p>\n

Ahmed last featured in a Test match for England in October.<\/p>\n

From day one against Derbyshire, Ahmed put on a show that had him anointed as ‘Star-med’ by the end.<\/p>\n

He was one of three Foxes players to score a century, with Lewis Hill top-scoring with 151 and Peter Handscomb contributing 101, in Leicestershire’s first inning, which set the Division Two leaders up for the 189-run win that has them edging towards promotion.<\/p>\n

The 115 from Ahmed was his third consecutive hundred in the Championship.<\/p>\n

He followed that up on day two with a masterful display of spin, taking 6-51 from 20 overs to help bowl the hosts out for 189.<\/p>\n

He put on a quickfire 26 with the bat after that to help put Leicestershire in command of the game, before completing his match-winning performance with 7-93 to take his bowling figures to an astonishing 13-144 from 60 overs. <\/p>\n

It was a huge haul in what was a top-of-the-table clash of regional rivals who are both challenging for promotion.<\/p>\n

“This week was my week, but also it was Pete’s week – he got a 100 and Lewis Hill got a massive 150,” Ahmed said after the match.<\/p>\n

“We are all loving each other’s performances, and as long as we keep doing that we’ll be sweet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For some, this was a clear message from Ahmed to England selectors, external ahead of the Ashes series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-31080","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\/31080","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=31080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}