{"id":628164,"date":"2026-06-08T21:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628164\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:29:12","slug":"sean-hunt-sussex-bowler-revels-in-t20-figures-after-injury-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628164\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Hunt: Sussex bowler revels in T20 figures after injury return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hunt missed three months of the 2025 season with a shoulder injury, suffered during a County Championship match against Somerset last April in which he had taken nine wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then had to pull out of Sussex&#8217;s final match of the season at Worcestershire and had to have surgery earlier this year after failing to recover in time for the start of the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the left-armer has used Sussex&#8217;s last two matches in the T20 Blast &#8211; a format he had never previously played in &#8211; to help build up his match fitness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And he has found his form instantly &#8211; his figures against Kent were the third most economical four-over spell in Sussex&#8217;s 23 years of playing T20 cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It all feels a bit surreal,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;The new ball was moving early and I think that suits my game, with opening the bowling in red-ball cricket as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I stuck to my skills, stuck to my basics and it paid off nicely.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hunt missed three months of the 2025 season with a shoulder injury, suffered during a County Championship match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628164","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\/628164","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=628164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}