{"id":321796,"date":"2025-12-17T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321796\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:18:09","slug":"the-hundred-rehan-ahmed-signed-by-birmingham-phoenix-for-2026-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321796\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred: Rehan Ahmed signed by Birmingham Phoenix for 2026 tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birmingham Phoenix have signed England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed for the 2026 season of The Hundred.<\/p>\n

Ahmed, 21, impressed in helping runners-up Trent Rockets reach last year’s final, taking 12 wickets and scoring 189 runs across the competition.<\/p>\n

This year, the leg-spinner and top-order batter also helped Leicestershire win the County Championship Division Two title, taking 23 wickets at 19 and averaging 50.66 with the bat, including five centuries.<\/p>\n

Before joining Rockets, he represented Southern Brave in The Hundred.<\/p>\n

Each of the eight Hundred franchises can sign four players in a window until the end of January, with one allowed to be a retention of any member of a side’s 2025 squad.<\/p>\n

The three remaining direct signings must be from overseas or England contracted players, and franchises will be able to offer multi-year contracts.<\/p>\n

Ahmed – who has played five Tests, six one-day internationals and 12 T20s for England – is the first signing of the window. <\/p>\n

The Hundred will then hold a player auction for the 2026 season,<\/a> with salaries also significantly increased, following private investment into the competition.<\/p>\n

Knighthead Capital Management, founded by Birmingham City co-owner and chairman Tom Wagner, paid \u00a340m for a 49% share in Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham Phoenix have signed England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed for the 2026 season of The Hundred. Ahmed, 21, impressed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-321796","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\/321796","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=321796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}