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The most recent Indian player to play for a County team is Jayant Yadav. Sai Sudharsan, a young Indian batter, joined Surrey County Cricket Club earlier this week to play out the season. For the four games remaining in the current County Championship season, Jayant will join Middlesex County Cricket Club.
Sai Sudharsan
Sudharsan plays in first-class cricket for Tamil Nadu. In the ACC Men’s Emerging Asia Cup, he made his India A debut. For Tamil Nadu, he has participated in eight first-class games, where he has amassed nearly 600 runs at an average of 42.71. For them, he has two tons and fifty years. He also played for the Gujarat Titans, who came second in 2023 and won the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2022.
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Sai Saudharsan joins Surrey
Sai Sudharsan joined the Division 1 leader Surrey County Cricket Club, which is currently in first place. On their social media platforms, Surrey confirmed the signing of the 21-year-old batter. 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
The head coach of Surrey, Alec Stewart, asserted that the signing of Sudharsan came highly recommended by a number of legendary cricketers. 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.”
For three matches, Sudharsan will play for the Surrey team. He will compete on September 3 against Warwickshire, September 19 against Northamptonshire and September 26 against Hampshire.
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Jayant Yadav
Haryana-born Jayant Yadav is an all-around bowler. He has played for India in six test matches, taking 16 wickets at an average of 29.06 in those games. He has scored 248 runs in the six test matches, averaging 31. His best performance was 104 runs.
He has participated in 75 first-class games, taking 205 wickets at an average of 32.73 in those games. He has scored more than 2,500 runs at an average of 25.45 in those 75 first-class test matches, including three tons and 12 half-centuries.
Jayant Yadav joins Middlesex
Jayant Yadav has joined Middlesex, which is ranked ninth out of the other 10 Division 1 teams. Jayant exclaimed how happy he was to have joined 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
Alan Coleman, the director of cricket for Middlesex, gave an explanation of Jayant’s signing and how he will take the place of 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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