{"id":27438,"date":"2025-07-28T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27438\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:23:11","slug":"khaleel-ahmed-india-seamer-leaves-essex-spell-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27438\/","title":{"rendered":"Khaleel Ahmed: India seamer leaves Essex spell early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India pace bowler Khaleel Ahmed has ended his spell with Essex early, returning home for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-armer, who has played 11 one-day internationals and 18 T20 games for his country, was set to be with Essex for the remainder of the County Championship season and feature in their One Day Cup campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahmed has taken four wickets in two games for Essex <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/ce37v1xyw6qo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">since joining last month<\/a>, at an average of 64.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An club statement said: &#8220;While we are disappointed to see him leave, we fully support Khaleel&#8217;s decision and are grateful for the contributions he made during his time with us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;Everyone at Essex Cricket wishes Khaleel all the very best for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex, currently seventh in Division One of the County Championship, face Warwickshire on Tuesday, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cy8k8gzydd3o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thrashed Sussex by an innings and 39 runs<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India pace bowler Khaleel Ahmed has ended his spell with Essex early, returning home for personal reasons. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-27438","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\/27438","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=27438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}