{"id":726683,"date":"2026-08-04T00:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726683\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:32:10","slug":"older-brother-tom-gives-james-taylor-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726683\/","title":{"rendered":"Older brother Tom gives James Taylor insight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"James<\/p>\n

Picture by Dan Istitene\/Getty Images. James Taylor in action for Surrey during the ongoing Metro Bank One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n

Yorkshire fans got a brief look at one Taylor at York last week and next season will get a much more prolonged look at another. Tom Taylor lined up against the White Rose for Worcestershire on Wednesday, while his younger brother James has just signed on at Headingley from Surrey.<\/p>\n

So who better to give us an idea of what to expect from the 25-year-old than his seam-bowling sibling.<\/p>\n

Fast bowler James is heading North ahead of 2027 after six years at the Kia Oval, where he has played his part in County Championship success.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u2019s currently a central cog in Surrey\u2019s team in the ongoing Metro Bank One-Day Cup, the same competition in which older brother Tom play against Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

\u201cJames is a very good bowler who will come in and give some energy, extra pace,\u201d said Tom, a highly-thought-of seam-bowling all-rounder himself and six years James\u2019s senior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019ll hit the pitch hard.<\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/p>\n

Picture by Matthew Lewis\/Getty Images. Tom Taylor, the older brother of Yorkshire\u2019s new signing James, played against the White Rose for Worcestershire in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup at York last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe comes from a very good environment at Surrey \u2013 a very competitive one there \u2013 and into one which I expect will be very similar here given the expectations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving spoken to him, he\u2019s looking forward to playing at Headingley in front of the Yorkshire fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

James is just short of 50 senior career appearances across the formats, starting out at Derbyshire in 2017. To be precise, he has taken 64 wickets in 42 appearances, including a County Championship best of 6-52 whilst on loan at Kent earlier this summer.<\/p>\n

Tom added: \u201cHe would have liked to have played a lot more for Surrey. He\u2019s been a bit in and out. They\u2019ve got a great seam attack, and it\u2019s difficult to break into.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will be coming up here for more opportunity, but that\u2019s not to say the competition at Yorkshire isn\u2019t fierce.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe hits the pitch hard, back-of-a-length hard and asks for a bit of movement off the seam.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"James<\/p>\n

Picture by Ben Hoskins\/Getty Images. Seamer James Taylor will join Yorkshire from Surrey this winter.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not a swing bowler. When he bowls at his best, he nicks people off and gets them trapped on the crease.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surrey wanted to keep James, with director of cricket Alec Stewart saying recently: \u201cDespite numerous conversations over the last 12 months, which included a contract offer, we fully appreciate James\u2019s decision to move to Yorkshire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former England Under 19s quick James has signed a three-year contract at Yorkshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by Dan Istitene\/Getty Images. James Taylor in action for Surrey during the ongoing Metro Bank One-Day Cup.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726683","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\/726683","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=726683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}