{"id":630650,"date":"2026-06-10T06:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630650\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:41:18","slug":"hasan-mahmud-bangladesh-bowler-joins-kent-for-county-championship-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630650\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasan Mahmud: Bangladesh bowler joins Kent for County Championship spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent have signed Bangladesh fast bowler Hasan Mahmud for six of their remaining eight County Championship Division Two matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old, who has taken 36 wickets in 13 Test matches, will be available to play against Lancashire and Middlesex this month, and the four games to be played in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Between those periods, he is likely to be involved for Bangladesh in Tests against Zimbabwe and Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Playing county cricket is a dream come true, and it&#8217;s a proud moment not only for me, but also for everyone back home in Bangladesh,&#8221; Mahmud said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kent have signed Bangladesh fast bowler Hasan Mahmud for six of their remaining eight County Championship Division Two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-630650","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\/630650","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=630650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}