{"id":382545,"date":"2026-01-21T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382545\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:58:09","slug":"billy-root-glamorgan-all-rounder-agrees-one-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382545\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Root: Glamorgan all-rounder agrees one-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Billy Root has signed a one-year contract extension which will keep him at Glamorgan until the end of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batter Root, 33, has been an influential figure at Glamorgan since joining the Welsh county in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Root, who played significant roles in Glamorgan&#8217;s One-Day Cup wins in 2021 and 2024, has played 67 first-class matches for the club as well as 44 list A appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Billy offers a huge amount to us on and off the field and has been a big part of the club since making Wales his home back in 2019,&#8221; Glamorgan director of cricket Mark Wallace said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re delighted that he&#8217;s extended his stay with us for another year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan will play in the top flight of the County Championship for the first time in 21 years in 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy Root has signed a one-year contract extension which will keep him at Glamorgan until the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382545","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\/382545","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=382545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}