{"id":791008,"date":"2026-10-03T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791008\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T20:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:14:30","slug":"alan-richardson-worcestershire-need-to-emulate-durham-and-kent-in-2027-says-head-coach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791008\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Richardson: Worcestershire need to emulate Durham and Kent in 2027, says head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richardson said he has already started to work towards the winter and how things might look in 2027, but added his squad was already fairly settled.<\/p>\n

Sussex batter George Thomas<\/a> will help fill the gap left by the retired Rob Jones, <\/a>while Harry Darley’s departure has been compensated by the arrival of Australian-born seamer Sam Greer.<\/p>\n

George O’Connor has stepped up from the second XI and will have more opportunities next summer.<\/p>\n

“Not many changes,” Richardson said. “We believe we have a really good squad, we have a real nice mix of senior players and some really good up-and-coming young players and a nice little group in the middle – [all-rounder] Ethan Brooks, [seamers] Ben Allison and Adam Finch.<\/p>\n

“We have to keep making sure we are giving ourselves the best chance because we want to be in Division One and we want to be qualifying for T20 and 50-over knockout games. <\/p>\n

“That’s incredibly difficult.”<\/p>\n

In terms of the overseas slots, Pakistan leg-spinner Usama Mir<\/a> will be classed as a homegrown player from 2027, with Richardson hinting they may look towards strengthening the batting next season having had bowling all-rounder Beyers Swanepoel at New Road in 2026.<\/p>\n

“Beyers came in and made an impact, but we feel like Adam Finch, George O’Connor, Sam Greer, and Ben Gibbon will be wanting one of those slots.<\/p>\n

“So we need to have a look at that and make sure we have some ideas of where we want to go but we have to make sure the right people are available.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richardson said he has already started to work towards the winter and how things might look in 2027,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791008","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\/791008","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=791008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}