{"id":569671,"date":"2026-05-06T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/569671\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:20:07","slug":"duanne-olivier-durham-sign-south-africa-fast-bowler-for-rest-of-county-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/569671\/","title":{"rendered":"Duanne Olivier: Durham sign South Africa fast bowler for rest of County Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Durham have signed South Africa pace bowler Duanne Olivier for the rest of the County Championship season.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old will replace West Indies quick Kemar Roach,<\/a> who took nine wickets in three matches before a pulled hamstring in the draw against Middlesex ended his stay.<\/p>\n

Olivier played the last of his 16 Test matches against New Zealand in early 2024 and is an experienced campaigner in England having taken 106 first-class wickets from 32 matches in spells with Derbyshire and Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always enjoyed playing in England, and the challenge of county cricket is something I’ve long appreciated,” Olivier told the Durham club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’ve been following the first few weeks of the County Championship and I’m excited to join the guys, contribute, and get stuck in.”<\/p>\n

Olivier, who has taken 578 first-class wickets at an average of 23.84, was due to move to Duham in the second half of the season but Roach’s injury has now brought that forward.<\/p>\n

Durham are currently top of Division Two after winning two and drawing two of their first four red-ball games.<\/p>\n

They travel to New Road to take on Worcestershire in their next match starting on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durham have signed South Africa pace bowler Duanne Olivier for the rest of the County Championship season. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-569671","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\/569671","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=569671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}