{"id":584300,"date":"2026-05-14T21:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584300\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:36:24","slug":"delano-potgieter-hampshire-sign-south-africa-all-rounder-as-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584300\/","title":{"rendered":"Delano Potgieter: Hampshire sign South Africa all-rounder as cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire have signed South African all-rounder Delano Potgieter for three County Championship matches and the start of the T20 Blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Potgieter is available for Hampshire&#8217;s match against Nottinghamshire, beginning on Friday, and will then provide cover until fellow South Africa batter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c5y2n518zrro\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Stubbs arrives for the Blast<\/a> after the conclusion of the Indian Premier League at the end of May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pogieter has taken 128 wickets and scored more than 2,500 runs in 50 first-class matches so far and recently worked with new Hampshire head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c623nj1n47eo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Domingo<\/a> during the CSA 4-Day Series &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s domestic first-class competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In T20 cricket, the 29-year-old has taken 49 wickets in 97 matches and scored 1,329 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire begin the T20 campaign on Friday, 22 May away at Somerset in a repeat of last season&#8217;s final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pogieter will also be available for the County Championship matches against Surrey and Sussex in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire have signed South African all-rounder Delano Potgieter for three County Championship matches and the start of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-584300","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\/584300","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=584300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}