{"id":619245,"date":"2026-06-03T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/619245\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:15:19","slug":"ned-leonard-glamorgan-fast-bowler-signs-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/619245\/","title":{"rendered":"Ned Leonard: Glamorgan fast bowler signs contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan fast bowler Ned Leonard has signed a two-year contract extension to the end of the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The London-born 23-year-old joined Glamorgan on loan from Somerset in August 2024 before making the move permanent that October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leonard starred in the 2025 T20 Blast campaign, topping the averages with 20 wickets at an average of 13.9, including a five-wicket haul against his former county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The environment here has been brilliant for my development and I&#8217;m grateful for the support I&#8217;ve had,&#8221; Leonard told the Glamorgan website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan fast bowler Ned Leonard has signed a two-year contract extension to the end of the 2028 season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-619245","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\/619245","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=619245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}