{"id":379241,"date":"2026-01-19T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379241\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:34:09","slug":"mark-stoneman-somerset-sign-ex-england-batter-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379241\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Stoneman: Somerset sign ex-England batter to coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former England opener Mark Stoneman has joined Somerset to work as a batting coach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old who played for Durham, Surrey, Middlesex and Hampshire over an 18-year county career has joined on an initial three-month consultancy basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stoneman scored 19,864 runs across the three formats of the game and played in 11 Test matches for England at an average of 27. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to getting amongst the lads and sharing some good knowledge,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/somersetcountycc.co.uk\/news\/club-news\/mark-stoneman-joins-somerset\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> he told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully, we can help them improve on the things that they&#8217;re already doing well, the aim is to maximise the performance of what is already a high performing group. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a fantastic opportunity at a highly successful club, hopefully I can help bring more success to Somerset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cricket has been my life since I was about four years old and during the last few winters I&#8217;ve had an eye on the coaching side of things.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England opener Mark Stoneman has joined Somerset to work as a batting coach. The 38-year-old who played&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-379241","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\/379241","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=379241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}