{"id":816559,"date":"2026-10-28T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816559\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:22:10","slug":"joe-weatherley-hampshire-batter-signs-new-deal-to-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816559\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Weatherley: Hampshire batter signs new deal to 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire batter Joe Weatherley has signed a new contract with the county that will last through until the end of the 2028 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old was the leading run-scorer in last season&#8217;s T20 Blast with 591 runs, at an average just under 50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Finals Day at Edgbaston, Weatherley scored an unbeaten 88 in the semi-final against Notts Outlaws before following it up with 75 in the final as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c1m191jkkm3o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hawks lost to the Northamptonshire Steelbacks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the loss It was a record-breaking day for the batter as he became the first player to score two fifties at a Finals Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Weatherley is a product of Hampshire&#8217;s academy and has played 211 matches for the club across all formats of the game since his senior debut in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is their third-leading run-scorer in T20 cricket with 2,741 runs, behind only James Vince and Michael Carberry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really pleased to extend my contract with Hampshire,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitabowl.com\/cricket\/news\/experienced-batter-joe-weatherley-pens-contract-extension\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weatherley said., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This club has been my home for twenty years and over ten years professionally, and I love playing my cricket and being part of the dressing room here. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a great group of players, and I&#8217;m motivated to contribute across formats and continue our success, particularly in white ball cricket, where we&#8217;ve been in knockouts and finals regularly, and bring some trophies home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In last summer&#8217;s Hundred, Weatherley was signed as a late addition to the Birmingham Phoenix squad to replace the injured Jacob Bethell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across his career at the Rose and Crown, Weatherley has won the 2018 Royal London Cup and the 2022 Vitality Blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire batter Joe Weatherley has signed a new contract with the county that will last through until the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816559","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\/816559","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=816559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}