{"id":493361,"date":"2026-03-24T22:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493361\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:26:13","slug":"jayden-seales-west-indies-pace-bowler-will-no-longer-join-hampshire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493361\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayden Seales: West Indies pace bowler will no longer join Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pace bowler Jayden Seales will no longer be joining Hampshire this summer after the West Indies cricket board refused to provide him with a No Objection Certificate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old right-armer was set to arrive at the Utilita Bowl as a replacement for Michael Neser who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c6277xrpnzxo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pulled out from joining<\/a> by Cricket Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seales was initially scheduled to play in the first six County Championship games of Hampshire&#8217;s season, but <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/solentsport\/status\/2036467656857956802?s=20\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">BBC Radio Solent now report, external<\/a> that his move is off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played 10 matches for Sussex in 2024 and 2025 and has played in 26 Test matches and 38 games in white-ball cricket for West Indies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire are now well into their pre-season preparations with the County Championship season beginning in less than two weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport understand that Hampshire hope to announce a replacement for Seales before the start of the red ball season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will begin against Essex at the Utilita Bowl before facing Yorkshire at Headingley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pace bowler Jayden Seales will no longer be joining Hampshire this summer after the West Indies cricket board&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493361","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\/493361","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=493361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}