{"id":696440,"date":"2026-07-17T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696440\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:24:09","slug":"sheridon-gumbs-leicestershire-sign-batter-on-three-and-a-half-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696440\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheridon Gumbs: Leicestershire sign batter on three-and-a-half-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leicestershire have signed batter Sheridon Gumbs on a three-and-a-half-year contract after impressing during a one-month deal with the East Midlands side.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old former England Under-19s international spent 18 months with the Foxes’ second XI before he was given a one-month contract<\/a> and promoted to make his County Championship debut in June.<\/p>\n

Gumbs – who came through the youth ranks at Surrey, where he made four One-Day Cup appearances in 2022 – made 49 in his second innings on his first-class debut for Leicestershire against Essex.<\/p>\n

He then went on to play a part in the Foxes’ milestone victory – their first in the top flight for 8,318 days<\/a> – against Yorkshire later that month.<\/p>\n

Gumbs went on to feature in the T20 Blast for the first time earlier in July and now has a contract that will run until the end of the 2029 season.<\/p>\n

“It’s the best news I could have got,” Gumbs told BBC Sport about his long-term deal.<\/p>\n

“It’s a massive weight off my shoulders and allows me to come in and be a better version of myself. I’m getting used to the environment and the lads, and it has been unbelievable.”<\/p>\n

Leicestershire director of cricket Claude Henderson described Gumbs as a player with “a huge amount of potential”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire have signed batter Sheridon Gumbs on a three-and-a-half-year contract after impressing during a one-month deal with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696440","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\/696440","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=696440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}