After Sai Sudharsan, Jayant Yadav also joins County Cricket

Jayant Yadav becomes the latest Indian player to join a County team. Earlier this week young Indian batter, Sai Sudharsan joined Surrey County Cricket Club for the remained of the season. Jayant will be joining Middlesex County Cricket Club for the four games in the ongoing County Championship season. 

Sai Sudharsan

Sudharsan plays for Tamil Nadu in first-class cricket. He made his debut for India A in the ACC Men’s Emerging Asia Cup. He has played eight first-class matches for Tamil Nadu in which he has scored close to 600 runs at an average of 42.71. He has two tons and a half-century for them. He was also part of the Gujarat Titans side that won the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2022 and finished as runner-up in 2023.

Sai Saudharsan joins Surrey

Sai Sudharsan joined Surrey County Cricket Club which currently sits at the top position of the Division 1 table. Surrey announced the signing of the 21-year-old batter on their social media accounts. Surrey in a tweet wrote, “Surrey sign exciting young Indian batter Sai Sudharsan for the remainder of the 2023 season.” 

Surrey sign exciting young Indian batter Sai Sudharsan for the remainder of the 2023 season.

Sudharsan will add depth to the squad for the final three games of the year.

Welcome Sai!

🤎 | #SurreyCricket

— Surrey Cricket (@surreycricket) August 31, 2023

Alec Stewart, the head coach of Surrey, claimed that several cricketing greats came highly recommended when it came to Sudharsan’s signing. Stewart said, “With the busy schedule of international and domestic cricket around the world, I’m pleased to add Sai Sudharsan to our available squad of players.”

Sudharsan will be part of the Surrey team for three games. He will play against Warwickshire on 3rd September, Northamptonshire on 19th September and Hampshire on 26th September.

Jayant Yadav

Jayant Yadav is a bowling all-rounder from Haryana. He has represented India in six test matches in which he has taken 16 wickets at an average of 29.06. In those six test matches, he has scored 248 runs at an average of 31 his highest score is 104 runs. 

He has played 75 first-class matches in which he has taken 205 wickets at an average of 32.73. In those 75 first-class test matches he has more than 2500 runs at an average of 25.45 including three tons and 12 half-centuries.

Jayant Yadav joins Middlesex

Jayant Yadav has joined Middlesex who are currently placed 9th out of the 10 teams in Division 1. Jayant expressed his delight over joining Middlesex County Club. He said, “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.” 

Take a look a some of Jayant Yadav's best stats 🔢

Who is excited to see him wearing the three seaxes? 🙋#OneMiddlesex pic.twitter.com/pNLxiIuc3K

— Middlesex Cricket (@Middlesex_CCC) September 1, 2023

Middlesex’s Director of Cricket, Alan Coleman explained the reasoning behind signing Jayant and how he will replace South African Pieter Malan. Coleman said, “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 feel that spin will be an important factor in September and the opportunity to sign an international spinner of Jayant’s quality was too good an opportunity to turn down.”

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