{"id":593412,"date":"2026-05-20T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593412\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:01:10","slug":"duan-jansen-gloucestershire-sign-all-rounder-for-six-games-of-t20-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593412\/","title":{"rendered":"Duan Jansen: Gloucestershire sign all-rounder for six games of T20 Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire have signed South African all-rounder Duan Jansen for the opening six games of the T20 Blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old comes in as cover for Liam Scott, who is set to miss the start of the campaign after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/ckgp7rj14j8o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called up to Australia&#8217;s ODI squad.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jansen will be available for the season opener at home to Warwickshire Bears on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director of cricket Jon Lewis said Jansen offered a &#8220;similar skillset&#8221; to Scott. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[He is] someone who can take the new ball and bowls with good pace and bounce,&#8221; Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He also has the ability to strike the ball through the back end of the innings, so he should be a really good fit for our squad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire have signed South African all-rounder Duan Jansen for the opening six games of the T20 Blast. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-593412","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\/593412","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=593412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}