{"id":590676,"date":"2026-05-18T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590676\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:00:18","slug":"timm-van-der-gugten-100-game-bowler-plans-to-stay-at-glamorgan-for-the-long-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590676\/","title":{"rendered":"Timm van der Gugten: 100-game bowler plans to stay at Glamorgan for &#8216;the long haul&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bowler Timm van der Gugten says he is &#8220;really proud&#8221; to have reached a century of appearances for Glamorgan and wants to stay for the &#8220;long haul&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Van der Gugten has taken over 260 first class wickets during his 10 years at Glamorgan with the current County Championship game at Warwickshire marking his 100th appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/35492048\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia-born Netherlands international joined in 2016<\/a> and has a year remaining on his current deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Glamorgan took a little bit of a punt on me and I&#8217;m obviously very grateful for being at the club for 10 years,&#8221; van der Gugten told BBC Sport Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I first came over I&#8217;d only played a handful of first class games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To play 100 games for them is a real honour &#8211; I&#8217;m really proud about it to be honest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My life is over here now \u2013 I&#8217;ve got a young family and wife &#8211; and I love Glamorgan and I love Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully there&#8217;s a few more games left to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bowler Timm van der Gugten says he is &#8220;really proud&#8221; to have reached a century of appearances for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590676","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\/590676","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=590676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}