{"id":471363,"date":"2026-03-12T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471363\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:31:09","slug":"the-hundred-2026-mens-auction-as-joe-root-adil-rashid-jordan-cox-earn-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471363\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred 2026: Men&#8217;s auction as Joe Root, Adil Rashid &#038; Jordan Cox earn deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young player to watch &#8211; Sonny Bakerpublished at 11:16 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:16 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f35c9b05-a2f3-4d4d-8144-6afea1530244.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Kieran Parmley<br \/>CricViz analyst<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sonny Baker\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b1a30f40-e697-401a-a06b-17630cc13d54.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Age: 22<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Role: Right-arm fast<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sonny Baker made his Hundred debut in 2022 at just 19 years old, featuring in three matches for Southern Brave. However, a mixture of recurring stress fractures and a drop in form limited his appearances until his return for Manchester Originals in last year&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only Jofra Archer and Riley Meredith registered more deliveries over 87mph than Baker during the 2025 men&#8217;s Hundred, which helped lead to an one-day international debut against South Africa in Leeds in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s not just raw pace Baker has to offer &#8211; with the new ball he&#8217;s capable of swinging the ball both ways, while at the death he mixes up his length alongside the occasional slower ball to keep batters guessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young player to watch &#8211; Sonny Bakerpublished at 11:16 GMT 11:16 GMT Kieran ParmleyCricViz analyst Image source, Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471363","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\/471363","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=471363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}