{"id":62964,"date":"2025-08-13T01:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62964\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:40:10","slug":"kasey-aldridge-somerset-all-rounder-to-join-durham-from-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62964\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasey Aldridge: Somerset all-rounder to join Durham from 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aldridge has taken 76 wickets in first-class cricket and scored more than 1,000 runs, with a best of 101 not out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also part of the Somerset side that won the T20 Blast in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played eight T20 games for Durham earlier this summer, which included personal-best bowling figures of 5-29 against Nottinghamshire Outlaws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durham&#8217;s director of cricket Marcus North <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamcricket.co.uk\/news-and-media\/kasey-aldridge-joins-durham-on-three-year-contract\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said:, external<\/a> &#8220;At only 24, Kasey has already established great foundations in all formats of his game, and we look forward to nurturing this very exciting talent in his next stage of his career at Durham.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aldridge has taken 76 wickets in first-class cricket and scored more than 1,000 runs, with a best of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-62964","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\/62964","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=62964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}