{"id":762982,"date":"2026-09-07T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762982\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:16:09","slug":"mitchell-hay-nottinghamshire-sign-new-zealand-wicketkeeper-batter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762982\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Hay: Nottinghamshire sign New Zealand wicketkeeper-batter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottinghamshire have signed New Zealand wicketkeeper-batter Mitchell Hay to replace Kyle Verreynne for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hay, 26, arrives just two days after Verreynne had his latest stint at Trent Bridge cut short when recalled by Cricket South Africa at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Notts&#8217; director of cricket Mick Newell said losing Verreynne with three County Championship games left to try to retain the Division One title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cy8znm5kp2zo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was &#8220;not ideal&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Peter Moores echoed the sentiment of &#8220;disappointment&#8221; about the loss but, in announcing Hay&#8217;s arrival, declared the Black Caps international as a &#8220;hugely exciting&#8221; and &#8220;quality&#8221; successor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a mature keeper with the ability to bat in the top six, which fits the role we need coming into the business end of the season,&#8221; Moores told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trentbridge.co.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hay, who has spent his domestic cricket career playing for Canterbury in New Zealand, joins a Notts side that are second in the table and just four points adrift of leaders Somerset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has so far scored more than 2,100 first-class runs, with a strike average of 45.14,  across his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottinghamshire have signed New Zealand wicketkeeper-batter Mitchell Hay to replace Kyle Verreynne for the remainder of the season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762982","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\/762982","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=762982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}