{"id":35691,"date":"2025-07-31T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35691\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:49:08","slug":"chris-dent-gloucestershire-batter-retires-after-16-years-with-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35691\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Dent: Gloucestershire batter retires after 16 years with club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bristol-born Dent joined the club’s academy aged 12 and was part of the side that won the One-Day Cup in 2015.<\/p>\n

He struck a high of 268 off 347 balls against Glamorgan in 2015 – an innings that remains the second-highest post-war total for the club – and surpassed 1,000 runs in a season four times, most recently in 2019.<\/p>\n

He captained Gloucestershire for five seasons from 2018 to 2021 and was under contract until the end of 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last summer Dent spoke about how he was enduring an ongoing battle with anxiety<\/a>, which kept him out of action for much of the season.<\/p>\n

Gloucestershire head coach Mark Alleyne said he was one of the “most valued players” to come through the club’s pathway.<\/p>\n

“Batting at the top for most of his career in England is an unenviable task, but once again he managed to impact games from that position on a regular basis,” Alleyne said.<\/p>\n

“Although still in great physical shape, it has been more challenging mentally, and on that sad note, his appearances have been somewhat restricted.<\/p>\n

“The last few years will not define what has been a stellar career with the Glorious, and I would like to thank him for his immense contributions over the years.<\/p>\n

“I feel he may still stay in cricket, perhaps playing locally, and this will be a continued boost for our regional game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol-born Dent joined the club’s academy aged 12 and was part of the side that won the One-Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-35691","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\/35691","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=35691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}