{"id":325806,"date":"2025-12-20T03:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325806\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T03:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:09:14","slug":"daniel-sams-somerset-sign-australia-all-rounder-for-2026-t20-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325806\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Sams: Somerset sign Australia all-rounder for 2026 T20 Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s Daniel Sams will join Somerset as one of their overseas players for the 2026 T20 Blast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old has played in all the major T20 competitions around the world including the Indian Premier League, Australia&#8217;s Big Bash and the Caribbean Premier League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has played 206 T20 matches in his career, taking 250 wickets at an average of 24.63 with a best of 5-30. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Essex and Nottinghamshire player has also scored 2,170 runs with a career-high of 98 not out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sams has won 10 T20 caps for Australia, his last coming against England in Perth in October 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having played against Somerset, I know how good a T20 side they are and I&#8217;m looking forward to being a part of the team,&#8221; Sams said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know a few of the guys already and I&#8217;ll be doing everything that I can to help them win games of cricket in 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset director of cricket Andy Hurry added: &#8220;Daniel has shown his quality all around the world and we are delighted that he will be joining us for our Vitality Blast title defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has demonstrated over the last few years that he can excel and really impact games in English conditions, and he will certainly bring a powerful blend of bowling finesse, explosive batting, and all-round adaptability.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Daniel Sams will join Somerset as one of their overseas players for the 2026 T20 Blast. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-325806","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\/325806","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=325806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}