{"id":359527,"date":"2026-01-08T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359527\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:45:08","slug":"harry-finch-kent-wicketkeeper-batter-extends-contract-to-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359527\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Finch: Kent wicketkeeper-batter extends contract to 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent wicketkeeper-batter Harry Finch has signed a contract extension to 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old has scored 3,129 runs in 92 matches across all formats for the Spitfires, winning the T20 Blast and One Day Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the gloves, he has 132 dismissals for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve loved every minute of my time here so far. It feels like we&#8217;re starting to build something very exciting and I&#8217;m delighted to be a part of that,&#8221; he told the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentcricket.co.uk\/news\/harry-finch-extends-kent-contract\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The squad under Smokes [Adam Hollioake] is looking in a really good place for the coming years and everyone is desperate to get the club back to winning ways and competing for trophies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully I can play an important part in that in all formats going forward and can&#8217;t wait to get the 2026 season going now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finch began his career with Sussex in 2013 before moving across the border to Kent for the 2021 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kent wicketkeeper-batter Harry Finch has signed a contract extension to 2027. The 30-year-old has scored 3,129 runs in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-359527","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\/359527","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=359527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}