{"id":267509,"date":"2025-07-16T20:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/267509\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T20:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:43:13","slug":"craig-miles-gloucestershire-re-sign-seam-bowler-from-warwickshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/267509\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Miles: Gloucestershire re-sign seam bowler from Warwickshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Gloucestershire have re-signed seam bowler Craig Miles from Warwickshire on a three-year deal which will begin at the end of the season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old will play out<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/63415574\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the remainder of his contract with the Bears <\/a>before linking up with his new club on 1 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miles&#8217; standout season for Warwickshire came in 2021 when he took 37 wickets at an average of 21.81 to help the Bears win the County Championship title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then took 5-28 against Lancashire at Lord&#8217;s to help secure the Bob Willis Trophy and complete a league and cup double that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is yet to feature for Warwickshire in the County Championship this season but has appeared six matches in the T20 Blast, taking five wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miles spent eight seasons with Gloucestershire, before his move to Edgbaston in 2019, and will have the chance to add to his 313 wickets for the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely buzzing to be coming back to Gloucestershire,&#8221; Swindon-born Miles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloscricket.co.uk\/news\/homegrown-seamer-craig-miles-rejoins-gloucestershire-1\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The chance to wear the shirt again and represent the club that played such a massive part in my journey was something I simply couldn&#8217;t turn down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head Coach Mark Alleyne added: &#8220;I very much look forward to welcoming Craig back to Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He left as a precocious talent and returns with a strong body of work on the first-class stage. As an all-format player, he will add great quality across the seasons to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire have re-signed seam bowler Craig Miles from Warwickshire on a three-year deal which will begin at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-267509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114864862365471268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}