{"id":571085,"date":"2026-05-07T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/571085\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:16:09","slug":"josh-thomas-somerset-all-rounder-signs-new-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/571085\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Thomas: Somerset all-rounder signs new two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All-rounder Josh Thomas has signed a new two-year deal with the club until the end of the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old has played in 31 first-class and List A games for Somerset since his debut in 2022, scoring 700 runs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas has featured in all four County Championship matches of the season so far, scoring 260 runs including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cpwp2ewpy70o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">career best of 136 in the defeat by Yorkshire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since making his first XI debut, we&#8217;ve seen a number of performances that have highlighted Josh&#8217;s potential,&#8221; said director of cricket Andy Hurry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Those experiences have provided him with some really valuable learning opportunities, and we&#8217;ve seen him continue to grow as a professional, both on and off the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas, who has also represented England at under-19 level, said: &#8220;It would be good to stay in the first team for as long as possible and hopefully I can get an opportunity in the Blast, but I&#8217;m trying to not look too far ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I worked really hard this winter, and I&#8217;m really pleased that that&#8217;s paid off.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-rounder Josh Thomas has signed a new two-year deal with the club until the end of the 2028&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-571085","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\/571085","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=571085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}