{"id":11010,"date":"2025-07-21T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11010\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:59:08","slug":"imam-ul-haq-yorkshire-sign-pakistan-batter-until-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11010\/","title":{"rendered":"Imam Ul-Haq: Yorkshire sign Pakistan batter until the end of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yorkshire have signed Pakistan batter Imam Ul-Haq as an overseas player for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old comes replaces India&#8217;s Ruturaj Gaikwad, who will not be joining Yorkshire for their final five County Championship fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gaikwad had agreed a deal which would begin from Tuesday&#8217;s game against reigning champions Surrey at Scarborough but pulled out for personal reasons, and he will also be available for the One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ul-Haq, who previously had a short-term spell with Somerset in 2022 when he played three County Championship games, will now go straight into Yorkshire&#8217;s squad to face the Division One leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re delighted that Imam has joined us and that he will be available immediately,&#8221; general manager of cricket Gavin Hamilton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whilst we were naturally disappointed that Ruturaj couldn&#8217;t join up with the squad, in Imam we have an exceptional player of proven international quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Imam has an impressive record and is already familiar with domestic cricket in this country which will stand us in good stead for a crucial block of fixtures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ul-Haq has played 24 Tests, 75 one-dayers and two T20 internationals for Pakistan, scoring a combined total of 4,741 runs, including 12 centuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also helped Pakistan Television win the domestic President&#8217;s Trophy earlier this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yorkshire have signed Pakistan batter Imam Ul-Haq as an overseas player for the remainder of the season. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-11010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}