club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n“Getting to represent Somerset is something I’m very proud of. It’s been great to be a Somerset player over the last few years, and I want to take that on and continue to bring success to the club.<\/p>\n
“I’m a Somerset boy and a Taunton boy through and through and I’ve only ever wanted to play for Somerset.<\/p>\n
“I want to be a one-club man so it’s obviously a great feeling to sign this extension.”<\/p>\n
Abell was the first Somerset academy player to be appointed captain in 2017 and led the club to a One-Day Cup victory two years later at Lord’s.<\/p>\n
He has also played for England Lions and played franchise cricket across the world.<\/p>\n
“Tom is a player who epitomises everything that it means to play for Somerset County Cricket Club,” director of cricket Andy Hurry said.<\/p>\n
“He has a genuine passion for this club and everything that it represents. <\/p>\n
“His work ethic is second to none and his dedication to improving every day is something to be admired.<\/p>\n
“Over the years Tom has developed into an outstanding multi-format cricketer, arguably one of the best in the country, and he has been integral to our success over the last few years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-serving Somerset all-rounder Tom Abell has signed a new contract to keep him at Taunton until the end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-553273","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\/553273","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=553273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}