Sorset will once again be available for cricket red ball after signing a modified contract with the club | Current news
Sorset Batter Will Smeed has signed a revised contract that will see him at his disposal for the crisner of the county championship once again in 2025.
The 23-year-old, who initially stepped down from the 2022 Red Ball crunch, wrote the contract extension last summer only for a white ball until the end of 2026, but this updated agreement will now see for a longer form.
Smeed has yet to make his first -class debut debut, but at the end of last year he played three championship matches in the XI County Championship, hitting two half a century in five inserts.
He said, “I want to be a part of that team and contribute to some victories. I desperately play more criskets than I did last summer.
“I picked up my injury and I felt like I didn’t really play a single cricket. I played a few seconds of XI game with a red ball and I really enjoyed it. Then I started thinking it would be a good option.
“Looking at how the team went to the championship last year was great, and some of the victories were absolutely crazy. It would be crazy if you didn’t want to be part of that team.”
Smeed, the key part of the Sorset team that won in the 2023 Vitality Blast, played 64 T20 matches for the Taunton Club, scoring 1,669 ride with 12 half a century and the best of 98 against Surrey 2022.
In the same year, he became the first dough to achieve a century in a hundred, for Birmingham Phoenix against the southern lock.
Smeed has presented 105 T20 matches in his entire career, including the SU20 and Pakistan’s Super League breaks, and one fastener for England against South Africa in July 2022.
Samerset director Andy Heur said: “We all know that Will will have tremendous potential, and his return to a multi -day cricket will surely add depth to our ability to hit the county championship.
“When he initially signed a white ball contract, he always made it clear that the door was not closed to play a red ball.”
