{"id":27809,"date":"2025-03-25T16:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kent-sign-kashif-ali-and-keith-dudgeon-for-start-of-2025-season\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:46:04","slug":"kent-sign-kashif-ali-and-keith-dudgeon-for-start-of-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kent-sign-kashif-ali-and-keith-dudgeon-for-start-of-2025-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent sign Kashif Ali and Keith Dudgeon for start of 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kent have signed Pakistan Test bowler Kashif Ali and South African paceman Keith Dudgeon for the start of the 2025 season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Australian fast bowler Wes Agar will not rejoin the club until the end of May as his workload is managed at the end of the Australian season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ali and Dudgeon will be available for the County Championship opener at Northampton on Friday, 4 April until the conclusion of Kent&#8217;s trip to Derbyshire on Monday, 26 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dudgeon, 29, has 224 career first-class wickets at an average of 25.79, while Ali has 110 first-class wickets at 28.01.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ali, 30, made his Pakistan Test debut against West Indies in January, taking two wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australian seamer Tom Rogers will also play for Kent Spitfires in the group stage of the Vitality Blast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c871zrrgz12o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent have signed Pakistan Test bowler Kashif Ali and South African paceman Keith Dudgeon for the start of the 2025 season. But Australian fast bowler Wes Agar will not rejoin the club until the end of May as his workload is managed at the end of the Australian season. Ali and Dudgeon will be available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27810,"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\/27809"}],"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=27809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27811,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27809\/revisions\/27811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}