Jayant Yadav joins Middlesex for last matches of County Championship
Jayant Yadav, the India offspinner, has joined Middlesex on a short-term deal for the final 4 LV= Insurance County Championship matches of the season.
Yadav, 33, has taken 16 wickets at 29.06 in six Test matches for his nation, the newest of which got here towards Sri Lanka in March 2022. His greatest figures, 4 for 49, had been towards New Zealand in December 2021, on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
However, his stand-out efficiency in Test cricket arguably got here on England’s Test tour of 2016-17, the place he made his highest rating of 104, batting at No.9 within the fourth Test at Delhi and including 241 with the then-captain, Virat Kohli, in an innings victory.
“I am honoured and excited to join the prestigious Middlesex County Cricket Club for the upcoming Championship games and be a part of its rich cricketing history,” Yadav stated in a membership assertion.
“I enjoyed my experience of playing county cricket last year,” he added, having performed two matches for Warwickshire of their Championship run-in in 2022, “and am eagerly looking forward to the new stint with Middlesex and contributing to the club’s success.”
Yadav’s first outing is ready to be towards Championship challengers Essex at Chelmsford subsequent week, previous to contests towards Lancashire, Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire. In his first-class profession to this point he has taken 205 wickets, with greatest bowling figures of seven for 58 for Haryana within the Ranji Trophy in 2019-20.
Middlesex’s Director of Cricket, Alan Coleman, stated: “With Pieter Malan returning home to South Africa, we wanted to bolster the squad with another quality signing ahead of four crucial matches that lay ahead of us in September.
“We really feel that spin shall be an necessary think about September and the chance to signal a global spinner of Jayant’s high quality was too good a chance to show down.
“He brings us that extra bit of something you get from an international cricketer, experience, quality, know how – all attributes that will prove hugely valuable to us in the coming games.
“We cannot wait to have him with us and need him each success right here over the approaching month.”