{"id":24998,"date":"2026-01-25T00:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/glenton-stuurman-and-senuran-muthusamy-to-share-kent-overseas-spot\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:59:54","slug":"glenton-stuurman-and-senuran-muthusamy-to-share-kent-overseas-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/glenton-stuurman-and-senuran-muthusamy-to-share-kent-overseas-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenton Stuurman and Senuran Muthusamy to share Kent overseas spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kent have signed South African bowler Glenton Stuurman for their first six County Championship matches of the 2026 season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old will be available for the season opener against Durham on 3 April until the return fixture in May, at which point he will be replaced by Senuran Muthusamy for the remainder of the red-ball season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stuurman has taken 21 wickets for Goldrush Boland in his homeland so far this season and has a career average of 24.05 in 82 first-class matches, with 277 wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has three international caps &#8211; two Test matches and one T20 appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Representing Kent carries a lot of weight, a club with a huge history in the game and a place where a lot of my fellow countrymen have made their names before,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cpwnvjyzjkgo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">announced the signing of South Africa international Muthusamy<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cdx44nr4v96o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent have signed South African bowler Glenton Stuurman for their first six County Championship matches of the 2026 season. The 33-year-old will be available for the season opener against Durham on 3 April until the return fixture in May, at which point he will be replaced by Senuran Muthusamy for the remainder of the red-ball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998","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=24998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25000,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998\/revisions\/25000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}