{"id":5597,"date":"2024-10-14T12:32:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/riley-meredith-australia-seamer-agrees-new-somerset-deal-for-2025\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:32:56","slug":"riley-meredith-australia-seamer-agrees-new-somerset-deal-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/riley-meredith-australia-seamer-agrees-new-somerset-deal-for-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Meredith: Australia seamer agrees new Somerset deal for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Australia seamer Riley Meredith will return to Somerset for the 2025 T20 Blast campaign. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cv22kd3932ko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">impressed this year at Taunton,<\/a> earning him an Australia recall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He took 14 wickets at an average of 22.78 as Somerset reached the final of the T20 Blast while he also claimed six wickets in the One-Day Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset say dependant on the 2025 domestic structure, Meredith could also feature in some 50-over and County Championship matches next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were all extremely impressed with how Riley performed on the field and by how he seamlessly he fitted into the group,&#8221; Somerset director of cricket Andy Hurry told the club website. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cHe showed that he is a world class performer, and he brought something a little different to our already outstanding attack. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He bowled with genuine pace and aggression and will once again be a valuable addition to our squad next summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cwy9dye21lko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia seamer Riley Meredith will return to Somerset for the 2025 T20 Blast campaign. The 28-year-old impressed this year at Taunton, earning him an Australia recall. He took 14 wickets at an average of 22.78 as Somerset reached the final of the T20 Blast while he also claimed six wickets in the One-Day Cup. Somerset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5597","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\/5597","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=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5599,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}