{"id":508762,"date":"2026-04-02T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508762\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:29:08","slug":"thomas-rew-hopes-to-follow-brother-james-path-at-somerset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508762\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rew hopes to follow brother James’ path at Somerset"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rew brothers have followed an almost identical trajectory up to now and their paths do not seem to be diverging any time soon. <\/p>\n

James made his Somerset debut in 2022, a year before younger brother Thomas joined the club’s academy. <\/p>\n

In 2023, he enjoyed a breakthrough season for the club, scoring more than 1,000 County Championship runs, becoming Somerset’s youngest first-class double centurion<\/a> and ending the campaign as the Professional Cricket Association’s men’s young player of the year.<\/p>\n

As Thomas has just done, James also reached the U19 World Cup final with England in 2022 and in May last year he was called up to the England Test squad<\/a> for the first time but did not play in the game against Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

While with the Lions in November, he scored an unbeaten 92<\/a> during the win over a Prime Minister’s XI<\/p>\n

“It seems to have all happened quite quickly in the last year or so, to be picked on a Lions tour together is really cool,” James said.<\/p>\n

“To be working with Freddie Flintoff, playing against Aussie A and the England Test team was unbelievable.”<\/p>\n

Somerset begin their County Championship campaign at home to Nottinghamshire on Friday and Thomas said seeing his brother play has only increased his desire to do the same.<\/p>\n

“Watching James and the team play over the last few years has made me more hungry and to go out there and win competitions,” Thomas said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rew brothers have followed an almost identical trajectory up to now and their paths do not seem…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-508762","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\/508762","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=508762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}