Kemar Roach signs for Durham, switches from Surrey in County Championship<\/p>\n
Barbados and West Indies fast bowler Kemar Roach has signed to play for Durham in the English County Championship four-day first-class competition later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The tournament is due to start in early April. The 37-year-old, who is closing in on 300 Test wickets, will join up with the Durham squad ahead of the season-opener against Kent at Riverside ground and will be available until mid-June.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Therefore, Roach will be unavailable to represent Barbados Pride in the West Indies four-day championship which is set for April and May.<\/p>\n
Roach brings proven pedigree as a pace bowler in English conditions as a three-time County Championship winner with Surrey.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t wait to join Durham for the 2026 season. Having played in the County Championship for the past five years, I know how serious a side Durham are, so I plan to join and add great value. I hope to help Durham push for a trophy this summer and I think the group Durham have is very close to doing that. We know how much of a tough season it is with the county grind, but the rewards are there when you win and I hope to add that winning mentality to the Durham side,\u201d Roach was quoted on the club\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Roach, who made his Test debut in 2009, has claimed 12 five-wicket hauls for West Indies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has 294 wickets in 88 matches and is fifth highest in the West Indies all-time list of wicket-takers behind fellow legends Lance Gibbs (309), Malcolm Marshall (376), Curtly Ambrose (405) and Courtney Walsh (519).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to welcome Kemar to Durham He is a world-class performer in Test cricket and his experience playing county cricket makes him a perfect fit for our group,\u201d said Durham director of cricket Marcus North.<\/p>\n
In a separate post, Surrey thanked Roach for his five years of service to the club. (PS)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kemar Roach signs for Durham, switches from Surrey in County Championship Barbados and West Indies fast bowler Kemar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,35757,198836,82,87674],"class_list":["post-495732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cricket","tag-kemar-roach","tag-sports","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}