{"id":84395,"date":"2025-08-22T06:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84395\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:34:08","slug":"glamorgan-coach-richard-dawson-signs-three-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84395\/","title":{"rendered":"Glamorgan coach Richard Dawson signs three-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan men&#8217;s head coach Richard Dawson has signed a three-year contract extension to stay with the Welsh county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dawson was appointed coach until the end of the 2025 season in January, taking over after Grant Bradburn was sacked the previous month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c757yved70wo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">following a charge of misconduct that resulted in a sanction.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under Dawson&#8217;s guidance, Glamorgan are contenders for promotion from Rothesay County Championship Division 2 to the top flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They lie second behind leaders Leicestershire before the competition resumes for the Welsh county with a trip to Northamptonshire on 8 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan&#8217;s fortunes have also improved in the T20 Vitality Blast, although they missed out on the knockouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dawson said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve enjoyed working with everyone at the club this season and look forward to continuing this work with players and coaching staff in the seasons ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan men&#8217;s head coach Richard Dawson has signed a three-year contract extension to stay with the Welsh county.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-84395","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\/84395","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=84395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}