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 coverage County Championship matches of the season.

Yadav, 33, has taken 16 wickets at 29.06 in six Check matches for his nation, the latest 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.

Nevertheless, his stand-out efficiency in Check cricket arguably got here on England’s Check tour of 2016-17, the place he made his highest rating of 104, batting at No.9 within the fourth Check at Delhi and including 241 with the then-captain, Virat Kohli, in an innings victory.

“I’m honoured and excited to hitch the celebrated Middlesex County Cricket Membership for the upcoming Championship video games and be part of its wealthy cricketing historical past,” Yadav stated in a membership assertion.

“I loved my expertise of enjoying county cricket final yr,” he added, having performed two matches for Warwickshire of their Championship run-in in 2022, “and am eagerly wanting ahead to the brand new stint with Middlesex and contributing to the membership’s success.”

Yadav’s first outing is about to be towards Championship challengers Essex at Chelmsford subsequent week, previous to contests towards Lancashire, Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire. In his first-class profession up to now 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 residence to South Africa, we wished to bolster the squad with one other high quality signing forward of 4 essential matches that lay forward of us in September.

“We really feel that spin might be an vital consider September and the chance to signal a world spinner of Jayant’s high quality was too good a possibility to show down.

“He brings us that additional little bit of one thing you get from a world cricketer, expertise, high quality, understand how – all attributes that can show massively precious to us within the coming video games.

“We will not wait to have him with us and need him each success right here over the approaching month.”