{"id":317290,"date":"2025-12-15T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317290\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:07:10","slug":"ashton-turner-leicestershire-signed-australian-all-rounder-for-t20-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317290\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashton Turner: Leicestershire signed Australian all-rounder for T20 Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire have signed Australian all-rounder Ashton Turner for the 2026 T20 Blast campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old, who featured 28 times for Australia in limited-over formats between 2017 and 2023, played in the 20-over competition for Lancashire last season and previously played for Durham. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turner has captained Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League and has amassed more than 3,800 runs in T20s in a career that has also included spells playing franchise cricket in Pakistan, India and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Australian will be reunited with Alfonso Thomas at Leicestershire, with the Foxes head coach a former team-mate to Turner at the Scorchers more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having played alongside him at the Perth Scorchers, I know first-hand the professionalism, competitiveness and character he brings to a team,&#8221; Thomas told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestershireccc.co.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a serial trophy winner, a proven match-winner, and an outstanding leader who sets the highest standards for those around him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire have signed Australian all-rounder Ashton Turner for the 2026 T20 Blast campaign. The 32-year-old, who featured 28&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-317290","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\/317290","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=317290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}