{"id":424236,"date":"2026-02-13T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424236\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:09:09","slug":"tom-rogers-australian-bowler-to-return-for-t20-blast-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424236\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Rogers: Australian bowler to return for T20 Blast season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australian fast bowler Tom Rogers will represent Kent in the 2026 T20 Blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old has taken 91 wickets in 78 matches during his T20 career at an average of 25.68.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rogers spent the second half of the 2024 campaign with the club before returning to Canterbury last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has taken 13 wickets in 17 appearances for Kent, including scoring 96 runs with the bat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to be returning to Canterbury for the Vitality Blast this summer,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The tournament&#8217;s changed a little bit and that means we&#8217;ll be facing a couple of new teams which is always exciting and it&#8217;s also all in one block, which means I can be there for the knockouts if we get there, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to meet up with the lads again and get back to work as a Spitfire. I know we&#8217;re all determined to push on and take another big step forward in the competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keith Dudgeon and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cpwnvjyzjkgo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senuran Muthusamy<\/a> will take the club&#8217;s remaining international spots in the squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian fast bowler Tom Rogers will represent Kent in the 2026 T20 Blast. The 31-year-old has taken 91&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-424236","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\/424236","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=424236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}