{"id":8348,"date":"2024-12-19T23:35:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T23:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fred-klaassen-netherlands-international-signs-new-kent-deal\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T23:35:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T23:35:40","slug":"fred-klaassen-netherlands-international-signs-new-kent-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fred-klaassen-netherlands-international-signs-new-kent-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Klaassen: Netherlands international signs new Kent deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kent bowler Fred Klaassen has signed a new one-year contract to play white-ball cricket at the Canterbury club next season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Netherlands international has taken 61 wickets in 55 T20 appearances since joining the club in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A left-arm seamer, Klaassen has 58 international caps across white ball cricket, taking 75 wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old was part of the Spitfires&#8217; T20 Blast title-winning squad in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/58609100\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">taking 4-17 against Sussex Sharks in the semi-final.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he missed the 2024 competition with a back injury, which was sustained on international duty in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really pleased to commit to Kent for at least another year at what feels like a fresh start for us and the start of something exciting,&#8221; he told the club&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A big contributing factor to me committing to Kent was having Adam Hollioake come in as head coach, and I&#8217;m looking forward to working with him and the rest of the squad to hopefully put some big performances in 2025 after a disappointing 2024 due to injury.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cn0xrgl9kyyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent bowler Fred Klaassen has signed a new one-year contract to play white-ball cricket at the Canterbury club next season. The Netherlands international has taken 61 wickets in 55 T20 appearances since joining the club in 2019. A left-arm seamer, Klaassen has 58 international caps across white ball cricket, taking 75 wickets. The 32-year-old was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8348","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\/8348","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=8348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8350,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions\/8350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}