{"id":13158,"date":"2026-04-16T20:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13158"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:05:14","slug":"josh-tongue-england-bowler-signs-nottinghamshire-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13158","title":{"rendered":"Josh Tongue: England bowler signs Nottinghamshire contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England fast bowler Josh Tongue has signed a new three-year contract with reigning county champions Nottinghamshire that will keep him at Trent Bridge until at least the end of the 2029 season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old has taken 33 wickets in seven first-class matches for Notts at an average of 22.87, since moving from Worcestershire in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tongue played six of those red-ball games early last summer, picking up 31 wickets, including three five-wicket hauls, as Notts went on to claim their first County Championship title since 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So far this season he has played once, taking two wickets in Notts&#8217; thumping 192-run win over Glamorgan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love playing here and I feel my game has come on leaps and bounds in the last few years, so I can&#8217;t wait to see what the future holds,&#8221; Tongue <a href=\"https:\/\/trentbridge.co.uk\/news\/2026\/april\/tongue-commits-to-new-three-year-contract.html\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">said<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> in a statement on the club&#8217;s website<a href=\"https:\/\/trentbridge.co.uk\/news\/2026\/april\/tongue-commits-to-new-three-year-contract.html\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m committed to giving everything for Nottinghamshire whenever I step out onto the field and I&#8217;m really excited about the next few years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England fast bowler Josh Tongue has signed a new three-year contract with reigning county champions Nottinghamshire that will keep him at Trent Bridge until at least the end of the 2029 season. The 28-year-old has taken 33 wickets in seven first-class matches for Notts at an average of 22.87, since moving from Worcestershire in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}