{"id":370733,"date":"2026-01-15T05:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370733\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:14:10","slug":"mikey-cohen-kent-bowler-signs-one-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370733\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Cohen: Kent bowler signs one-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent bowler Mikey Cohen has signed a one-year contract extension with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old joined Kent ahead of the 2024 season but did not make his first-team debut until August last year because of a long-standing back injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The South African-born player, who qualifies as homegrown through residency, has taken nine wickets in nine appearances across all formats for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has averaged 47.42 in List A cricket and has a first-class average of 143.00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a privilege to play for Kent and I&#8217;m grateful for the opportunity to represent this great club in the coming summer,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve loved the opportunity to work closely with club legend Darren Stevens, alongside bowling lead Sam Faulkner, and I&#8217;m very excited about what&#8217;s to come this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cohen began his career playing in South Africa for Western Province and Cape Cobras before moving to Derbyshire in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across his career, he has averaged 29.47 in first-class, 49.20 in List A and 32.11 in T20 cricket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kent bowler Mikey Cohen has signed a one-year contract extension with the club. The 27-year-old joined Kent ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-370733","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\/370733","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=370733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}