{"id":11588,"date":"2025-03-07T23:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T23:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/will-smeed-somerset-batter-to-play-all-formats-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T23:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T23:17:34","slug":"will-smeed-somerset-batter-to-play-all-formats-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/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":"


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Smeed has been with Somerset since under-10 age grade and made his debut in 2020, signing professional terms a year later. <\/p>\n

He has gone on to make 64 T20 appearances for the club, scoring 1,669 runs including 12 half-centuries and was part of the 2023 Blast-winning side. <\/p>\n

In 2022, Smeed became the first batter to hit a century in The Hundred,<\/a> playing for Birmingham Phoenix.<\/p>\n

He has featured in the Pakistan Super League, SA20, Caribbean Premier League and International League T20 but is yet to play in first-class cricket and has only one 50-over game to his name, for England Lions.<\/p>\n

Somerset director of cricket Andy Hurry said Smeed’s return will “add depth” to their batting in the four-day game.<\/p>\n

“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,” Hurry said.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Somerset start their County Championship season at home to Worcestershire on Friday, 4 April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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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 for the club, scoring 1,669 runs including 12 half-centuries and was part of the 2023 Blast-winning side. In 2022, Smeed became the first batter to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11590,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions\/11590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}