{"id":38315,"date":"2026-01-29T03:08:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/durham-south-africa-batter-david-bedingham-returns-for-2026-season\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:08:08","slug":"durham-south-africa-batter-david-bedingham-returns-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/durham-south-africa-batter-david-bedingham-returns-for-2026-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham: South Africa batter David Bedingham returns for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Durham have signed David Bedingham in one of their overseas slots for the 2026 county season across all three competitions.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bedingham, 31, returns to the club for a seventh-straight year, having scored almost 5,000 runs for them in red-ball cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2024, the South Africa middle-order batter was the leading scorer in Division One of the County Championship with 1,331 runs at an average of over 78, while his 279 against Lancashire that summer is the county&#8217;s highest first-class score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Bedingham only managed 333 runs in six games last year as Durham were relegated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Being at Durham for the full season next year is very exciting and I can&#8217;t wait to hopefully play a vital role in getting us back into Division One,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamcricket.co.uk\/news-and-media\/david-bedingham-extends-for-seventh-season-with-durham\/\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the club&#8217;s website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c78vqjvqnwpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durham have signed David Bedingham in one of their overseas slots for the 2026 county season across all three competitions. Bedingham, 31, returns to the club for a seventh-straight year, having scored almost 5,000 runs for them in red-ball cricket. In 2024, the South Africa middle-order batter was the leading scorer in Division One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38315"}],"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=38315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38317,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38315\/revisions\/38317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}