{"id":581612,"date":"2026-05-13T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581612\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:45:10","slug":"dian-forrester-south-africa-all-rounder-joins-kent-for-t20-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581612\/","title":{"rendered":"Dian Forrester: South Africa all-rounder joins Kent for T20 Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batting all-rounder Dian Forrester has joined Kent for the 2026 T20 Blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old South African has five T20 caps for his country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forrester played alongside Kent Spitfires captain Sam Billings for Rawalpindi Pindiz in the Pakistan Super League (PSL).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has scored 681 runs and taken 11 wickets in 36 T20 appearances, as well as scoring another 83 runs for South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forrester replaces Senuran Muthusamy in the Spitfires squad, who sustained a knee injury while playing in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to be playing for Kent in the Vitality Blast,&#8221; said Forrester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Talking to Sam Billings and Justin Kemp about the history of the club and how they love it made me also want to be part of that history, and write my own this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to play in front of packed crowds at Canterbury and give my best for the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Batting all-rounder Dian Forrester has joined Kent for the 2026 T20 Blast. The 25-year-old South African has five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-581612","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\/581612","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=581612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}