Worcestershire batter Rehaan Edavalath has signed a new two-year contract with the county.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old is another of the club’s academy graduates to have played for the first team, making his first-class debut against Derbyshire in 2023.<\/p>\n
That remains the right-hander’s only red-ball game but he has been used more in white-ball cricket, where he played seven times in their One-Day Cup campaign last summer.<\/p>\n
Although Edavalath has not played any senior cricket this season, he is captain of the Pears’ second XI and hit a century against Leicestershire and half-centuries against Lancashire and Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n
“Rehaan is a player we’ve been lucky enough to see progress through the ranks, who has excelled in the second XI in recent times and to captain them at such a young age is testament to his progress,” Worcestershire head coach Alan Richardson said., external<\/a><\/p>\n “He’s shown a great deal of maturity and shown his skill in all formats, and we’re looking forward to seeing how he continues to develop.<\/p>\n “After such a bright start to his senior career and showing a lot of positive characteristics, there are some exciting times ahead of him.”<\/p>\n Edavalath’s new contract keeps him at New Road until 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worcestershire batter Rehaan Edavalath has signed a new two-year contract with the county. The 21-year-old is another of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-116856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}