{"id":36377,"date":"2025-07-31T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36377\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:37:09","slug":"josh-thomas-somerset-all-rounder-signs-new-contract-until-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36377\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Thomas: Somerset all-rounder signs new contract until 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset all-rounder Josh Thomas has signed a new deal with the club until the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old made his debut in 2022 in the One-Day Cup and was part of the squad that reached the final of last season&#8217;s competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total he has played in 15 List A matches for Somerset, having come through their academy and also represented England at Under-19 level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This season he has also had a spell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c5ygv17nq7yo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on loan at Leicestershire<\/a> for the group stage of the T20 Blast, featuring in three matches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have been impressed with Josh&#8217;s progress since he signed his first contract, and we are pleased that we will continue to oversee his journey,&#8221; said head director of cricket Andy Hurry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has the potential to influence games with both bat and ball, and we have seen this evidenced on a number of occasions for the second XI again this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somerset all-rounder Josh Thomas has signed a new deal with the club until the end of 2026. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-36377","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\/36377","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=36377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}