{"id":474317,"date":"2026-03-14T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474317\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:22:11","slug":"asa-tribe-jersey-born-batsman-signs-for-franchise-side-welsh-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474317\/","title":{"rendered":"Asa Tribe: Jersey-born batsman signs for franchise side Welsh Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey-born batsman Asa Tribe is set to make his first ever appearance in The Hundred this summer after signing for Welsh Fire for \u00a370,000 during Thursday&#8217;s live auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old Glamorgan opener played in all formats for his county side last season, scoring a stunning maiden County Championship double hundred in September against Northamptonshire, as they were promoted to Division One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That knock came during a run of four centuries in six games for the Welsh side and Jersey in the ICC Challenge League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite playing internationally for Jersey, Tribe can also be picked for England, who are full members of the International Cricket Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Tribe&#8217;s batting was a rare highlight for England Lions in their disappointing tour of Australia in the winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He top-scored with an unbeaten 129 as the Lions went down to an innings defeat in an unofficial Test at Allan Border Field in Brisbane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey-born batsman Asa Tribe is set to make his first ever appearance in The Hundred this summer after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474317","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\/474317","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=474317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}