{"id":785546,"date":"2026-09-28T18:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785546\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T18:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:40:11","slug":"freya-kemp-england-all-rounder-joins-surrey-on-multi-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785546\/","title":{"rendered":"Freya Kemp: England all-rounder joins Surrey on &#8220;multi-year&#8221; deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey have signed England all-rounder Freya Kemp from Hampshire on a &#8220;multi-year deal&#8221; from the 2027 season onwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old left-arm seamer has played for England 49 times, scoring 585 runs across 36 innings and taking 36 wickets across both formats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She enjoyed a successful international campaign in 2026, striking at 157.89 with an average of 45 at the Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kemp also produced England&#8217;s best bowling figures of 4-22 against Sri Lanka in the opening match of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Surrey are a huge club and have an amazing squad,&#8221; Kemp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiaoval.com\/kemp-signs-multi-year-deal-with-surrey\/?utm_content=bufferd99e8&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am very grateful for my time at Hampshire, who have played a key role in my development to get where I am today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a hard decision, but the opportunity to play for Surrey and be closer to home was one I couldn&#8217;t turn down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey have signed England all-rounder Freya Kemp from Hampshire on a &#8220;multi-year deal&#8221; from the 2027 season onwards.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-785546","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\/785546","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=785546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}