{"id":646756,"date":"2026-06-19T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646756\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:00:16","slug":"kiran-carlson-glamorgan-skipper-picked-for-the-hundred-bow-by-london-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646756\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiran Carlson: Glamorgan skipper picked for The Hundred bow by London Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan captain Kiran Carlson has earned his first call-up for The Hundred after being selected to play for Lord&#8217;s based London Spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old has previously led Glamorgan in the One Day Cup, which runs concurrently, winning it in 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan batter Sean Dickson has been picked by Birmingham Phoenix in the latest round of selections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Welsh Fire have chosen Jordan Clark, Dillon Pennington, Niamh Holland and Georgia Davis as their wildcard picks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan pair Ben Kellaway and Asa Tribe were already in the Welsh Fire line-up, led by Welshman Phil Salt, while Mason Crane will be joined by Carlson at London Spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh county will need a new captain for the One Day Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their contingent of five players at The Hundred equals their biggest contribution to the franchise competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan captain Kiran Carlson has earned his first call-up for The Hundred after being selected to play for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646756","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\/646756","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=646756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}