{"id":632478,"date":"2026-06-11T05:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632478\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:18:16","slug":"kristian-clarke-gloucestershire-sign-new-zealand-bowler-for-two-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632478\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristian Clarke: Gloucestershire sign New Zealand bowler for two games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire have signed New Zealand fast bowler Kristian Clarke on a two-match contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old will be available for selection for the next two County Championship matches against Northamptonshire and Worcestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has been capped four times by his country, playing in three one-day internationals and one T20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be the first time Clarke, who represents Northern Districts in New Zealand&#8217;s first-class competition, the Plunket Shield, has played domestic cricket outside of his homeland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire director of cricket Jon Lewis told the <a href=\"https:\/\/gloscricket.co.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">club website:, external<\/a> &#8220;Kristian is an exciting young all-rounder who&#8217;s eager to prove himself in English domestic cricket and is a like-for-like replacement for Liam Scott, who is unable to play in these County Championship games as planned due to his call-up for Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been really impressed by what I&#8217;ve seen and heard from coaches in and around the New Zealand set up &#8211; he&#8217;s a strong all-round cricketer with both bat and ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire currently sit bottom of County Championship Division Two, having won just one of their six matches so far this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire have signed New Zealand fast bowler Kristian Clarke on a two-match contract. The 25-year-old will be available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632478","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\/632478","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=632478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}