{"id":595417,"date":"2026-05-21T02:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595417\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:25:13","slug":"david-payne-gloucestershire-bowler-to-miss-t20-blast-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595417\/","title":{"rendered":"David Payne: Gloucestershire bowler to miss T20 Blast after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gloucestershire bowler David Payne has been ruled out of the entire T20 Blast campaign after having surgery on an ankle injury picked up while playing in the Indian Premier League. <\/p>\n

The left-arm seamer was playing in the IPL for the first time, having signed for Sunrisers Hyderabad in March as an injury replacement, but was hurt in April.<\/a><\/p>\n

Payne faces 12 weeks out while he recovers, with Gloucestershire due to begin their Blast campaign on Friday at home to Warwickshire Bears.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old is the club’s all-time leading white-ball wicket-taker and also claimed the highest number of wickets in last season’s Blast for the club, with 17.<\/p>\n

“I’m absolutely gutted to be missing the Blast and I’m very sorry to all our supporters,” Payne said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The decision to have surgery was an incredibly difficult one and it was only taken after exhausting every possible avenue to get me back playing.<\/p>\n

“Ultimately, this is the right decision for my long-term career and I’m immensely thankful to all the coaches and medical staff at the club for their incredible support throughout this process.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire bowler David Payne has been ruled out of the entire T20 Blast campaign after having surgery on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-595417","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\/595417","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=595417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}