{"id":714310,"date":"2026-07-27T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714310\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:18:09","slug":"ruan-de-swardt-south-africa-all-rounder-extends-leicestershire-stay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714310\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruan de Swardt: South Africa all-rounder extends Leicestershire stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa all-rounder Ruan de Swardt has extended his stay with Leicestershire Foxes for the rest of their One-Day Cup campaign.<\/p>\n

De Swardt initially joined for the Foxes’ final three T20 Blast fixtures and the opening three matches of the 50-over cup competition.<\/p>\n

But he will now stay for the remaining five group matches and through to the semi-finals if the Foxes reach the last four.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old hit a career-best List A score of 126 in a 21-run defeat against Lancashire on Sunday,<\/a> having taken 4-49 with the ball in the five-wicket win over Surrey on Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa all-rounder Ruan de Swardt has extended his stay with Leicestershire Foxes for the rest of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-714310","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\/714310","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=714310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}