{"id":396651,"date":"2026-01-29T09:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396651\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:53:18","slug":"fred-klaassen-kent-seam-bowler-signs-new-two-year-deal-with-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396651\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Klaassen: Kent seam bowler signs new two-year deal with club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent seam bowler Fred Klaassen has signed a new two-year deal, keeping him at the club until at least the end of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old joined Kent in 2018 and has gone on to take 76 wickets in 69 T20 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A one-day specialist, Klaassen&#8217;s contract has been described by the club as having a &#8220;white-ball focus&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Netherlands international Klaassen was a member of the Kent team which won the Men&#8217;s Vitality Blast in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The following year, he turned out for Manchester Originals in The Hundred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve now been a Kent player for seven years and I&#8217;m very proud to commit my future for a further two seasons,&#8221; Klaassen told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentcricket.co.uk\/news\/fred-klaassen-signs-two-year-kent-contract-extension\/\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kent&#8217;s website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent director of cricket Simon Cook added: &#8220;Fred is a big part of our white-ball bowling attack and we hope that our younger players can learn a lot from him going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kent seam bowler Fred Klaassen has signed a new two-year deal, keeping him at the club until at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-396651","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\/396651","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=396651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}