{"id":27104,"date":"2025-03-07T16:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/will-smeed-somerset-batter-to-play-all-formats-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:21:32","slug":"will-smeed-somerset-batter-to-play-all-formats-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/will-smeed-somerset-batter-to-play-all-formats-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smeed: Somerset batter to play all formats in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smeed has been with Somerset since under-10 age grade and made his debut in 2020, signing professional terms a year later. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has gone on to make 64 T20 appearances, scoring 1,669 runs including 12 half-centuries and was part of the 2023 Blast-winning side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A year earlier, Smeed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/62498038\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"> became the first batter to hit a century in The Hundred, <\/a>playing for Birmingham Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset director of cricket Andy Hurry said Smeed&#8217;s return will &#8220;add depth&#8221; to their batting in the four-day game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We all know Will has a huge amount of potential, and his return to multi-day cricket will certainly add depth to our County Championship batting options,&#8221; Hurry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When he initially signed a white-ball contract, he always made it clear that the door was not closed to the red-ball game, and I know our members and supporters will be excited by the prospect of him now being available to be considered for selection in all formats for the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset start their County Championship season at home to Worcestershire on Friday, 4 April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/crknjmzl446o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smeed has been with Somerset since under-10 age grade and made his debut in 2020, signing professional terms a year later. He has gone on to make 64 T20 appearances, scoring 1,669 runs including 12 half-centuries and was part of the 2023 Blast-winning side. A year earlier, Smeed became the first batter to hit a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27106,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27104\/revisions\/27106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}