{"id":45721,"date":"2025-08-05T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45721\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:22:07","slug":"james-rew-somerset-name-wicketkeeper-one-day-cup-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45721\/","title":{"rendered":"James Rew: Somerset name wicketkeeper One-Day Cup captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset have named James Rew as captain for their One-Day Cup team this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old wicketkeeper has scored 1,106 runs at an average of 39.50 in 31 list A matches for his county. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel very honoured to have been asked to captain the Metro One-Day Cup side this year. It is a great privilege as I love representing this club in all formats and I&#8217;m delighted to be able to lead such a talented and close-knit group,&#8221; he told the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/somersetcountycc.co.uk\/news\/first-xi\/james-rew-named-metro-bank-one-day-cup-captain\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve already been lucky enough to captain the County Championship side earlier this season, and I loved the experience, so I am looking forward to leading a slightly younger side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rew has also scored 3,199 runs in 53 red-ball matches at an average of 42.09 and has hit 134 runs in four T20s, at an average of 44.66.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset announced on Tuesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cvgvp30r7p2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Davey, Ben Green and Kasey Aldridge<\/a> would leave the club at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They begin this season&#8217;s One-Day Cup away to Middlesex on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somerset have named James Rew as captain for their One-Day Cup team this season. The 21-year-old wicketkeeper has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-45721","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\/45721","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=45721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}