{"id":786632,"date":"2026-09-29T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786632\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:40:10","slug":"ed-middleton-spin-bowler-to-leave-gloucestershire-along-with-ahmed-syed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786632\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Middleton: Spin bowler to leave Gloucestershire along with Ahmed Syed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spinner Ed Middleton and all-rounder Ahmed Syed will leave Gloucestershire when their contracts expire in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middleton, 25, has played 12 first-class matches and four List A games for the county, since his debut in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has scored 301 first-class runs at an average of 21.5 and claimed 20 wickets at 39.8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Syed, 22, is a Gloucestershire academy graduate and Cardiff University student, who is yet to make his first-class debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spinner Ed Middleton and all-rounder Ahmed Syed will leave Gloucestershire when their contracts expire in October. Middleton, 25,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786632","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\/786632","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=786632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}