{"id":459082,"date":"2026-03-05T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459082\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:06:08","slug":"jayden-seales-to-replace-michael-neser-at-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459082\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayden Seales to replace Michael Neser at Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire have signed West Indies pace bowler Jayden Seales for the opening block of County Championship games after Michael Neser was pulled out of his deal by Cricket Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seales, 24, will replace Neser for the first six red-ball games of the 2026 domestic campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seales played 10 matches for Sussex in 2024 and 2025, taking 39 wickets at an average of 28.46 with best figures of 5-29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made his international debut in 2021 and has gone on to play 26 Test matches and 38 games in white-ball cricket for West Indies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re obviously disappointed not to have Michael Neser with us this summer, but it opens the door to an exciting new addition,&#8221; Hampshire director of cricket Giles White said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jayden Seales is a bowler with pace and skill, and most importantly, the appetite to run in hard and take the game on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He joins a proud line of West Indian cricketers who&#8217;ve represented the club with distinction over the years, and we can&#8217;t wait to see him in action at the start of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire have signed West Indies pace bowler Jayden Seales for the opening block of County Championship games after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459082","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\/459082","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=459082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}