{"id":536182,"date":"2026-04-17T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536182\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:36:12","slug":"glenton-stuurman-south-african-bowlers-stint-with-kent-cut-short-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536182\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenton Stuurman: South African bowler&#8217;s stint with Kent cut short due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glenton Stuurman&#8217;s overseas spell with Kent has been ended by a quad injury picked up on his debut against Durham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former South Africa bowler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cdx44nr4v96o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had signed to play<\/a> the first six games of the County Championship season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stuurman, 33, took five wickets in the match before leaving the field injured and scans have revealed he will miss at least six weeks, ending his time with the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re disappointed that Glenton&#8217;s time has been cut short this season. He has been a good addition to the dressing room,&#8221; Kent&#8217;s director of cricket Simon Cook said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With Matt Quinn very close to match fitness and Mikey Cohen fully available, we still have depth in our seam bowling attack for the near future. Grant Stewart will also be in contention to return next week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stuurman took 3-64 and 2-43 as Kent drew with Durham in Division Two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent have drawn both their games and visit Worcestershire next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glenton Stuurman&#8217;s overseas spell with Kent has been ended by a quad injury picked up on his debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-536182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536182","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=536182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}