{"id":479802,"date":"2026-03-17T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479802\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:00:09","slug":"durham-australia-all-rounder-heather-graham-joins-for-t20-blast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479802\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham: Australia all-rounder Heather Graham joins for T20 Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durham have signed Australia all-rounder Heather Graham for the entire T20 Blast competition this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graham, 29, has played six white-ball internationals for her country, the most recent of which was in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has scored nearly 3,000 runs in T20 cricket, taken more than 200 wickets and was part of the Women&#8217;s Big Bash-winning Hobart Hurricanes side in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She played for The Blaze in last year&#8217;s T20 Blast in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having played in the Blast previously, I know how strong of a competition it is and I hope to bring success to Durham,&#8221; Graham told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamcricket.co.uk\/news-and-media\/australian-heather-graham-pens-blast-deal\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The north east county will look to improve upon their fifth place last year when the T20 Blast begins in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durham have signed Australia all-rounder Heather Graham for the entire T20 Blast competition this summer. Graham, 29, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-479802","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\/479802","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=479802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}