{"id":323386,"date":"2025-12-18T20:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323386\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:20:13","slug":"beyers-swanepoel-worcestershire-sign-south-african-all-rounder-on-red-ball-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323386\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyers Swanepoel: Worcestershire sign South African all-rounder on red-ball contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Worcestershire have signed South African all-rounder Beyers Swanepoel on a red-ball contract for 2026.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old will be available for the whole of the Pears’ County Championship campaign next summer as they return to Division Two after relegation ended a two-season stay in the top flight.<\/p>\n

It will be Swanepoel’s second stint in England, after a spell with Kent in 2024<\/a> when he made 16 appearances across all three formats.<\/p>\n

Swanepoel has scored nearly 1,500 runs in first-class cricket, with one century, and taken 182 wickets in 47 games.<\/p>\n

He has scored more than 1,000 runs and taken 130 wickets in 98 white-ball matches.<\/p>\n

“We are always looking to add to the quality within the group and by bringing in someone with the red-ball experience that Beyers possesses, we feel as though we have done just that,” Worcestershire head coach Alan Richardson said.<\/p>\n

Swanepoel said the prospect of a potential promotion campaign at New Road next season was “an exciting prospect”.<\/p>\n

“I have always enjoyed my time playing in England, and particularly the longer format of the game, so to be offered the opportunity to continue my red-ball journey at Worcestershire was one I was very keen on exploring,” he added.<\/p>\n

Swanepoel is the Pears’ second overseas recruit for 2026, after they signed Australia white-ball seamer Ben Dwarshuis<\/a> for a third spell at the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worcestershire have signed South African all-rounder Beyers Swanepoel on a red-ball contract for 2026. The 27-year-old will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-323386","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\/323386","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=323386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}