{"id":485750,"date":"2026-03-20T11:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485750\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:46:24","slug":"sean-abbott-australia-international-bowler-re-signs-for-surrey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485750\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Abbott: Australia international bowler re-signs for Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia international bowler Sean Abbott will return to Surrey for this season&#8217;s T20 Blast and the first eight matches of the County Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be the 34-year-old&#8217;s fourth stint with Surrey, having represented the club in 2021, 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Abbott has won 58 caps across one-day international and T20 international cricket, in which he has taken 69 wickets and scored 424 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The opportunity to re-join Surrey for the 2026 season was a no-brainer for me. The club has become a real home away from home,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiaoval.com\/sean-abbott-returns-to-surrey-in-2026\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abbott told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The dressing room environment is one of the best I&#8217;ve experienced in my career and I&#8217;m looking forward to linking up with the group once more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Abbott has taken 49 wickets at an average of 25.73 in first-class cricket for the Three Feathers and played a part in the 2023 and 2024 County Championship Division One title wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has taken 25 wickets in the T20 Blast and scored 221 runs, including a record-equalling 34-ball century against Kent Spitfires in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His fourth stint will begin with Surrey&#8217;s trip to Warwickshire on Friday, 3 April and will end at the conclusion of the Blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia international bowler Sean Abbott will return to Surrey for this season&#8217;s T20 Blast and the first eight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-485750","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\/485750","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=485750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}