{"id":130134,"date":"2025-09-11T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/130134\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:50:11","slug":"washington-sundar-hampshire-sign-india-all-rounder-for-two-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/130134\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Sundar: Hampshire sign India all-rounder for two matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire have signed India all-rounder Washington Sundar for their final two  County Championship matches against Somerset and Surrey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old played a key role in India&#8217;s Test series draw with England this summer, taking seven wickets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored 284 runs at an average of 47, scoring his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/crevdrge55qo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first Test century<\/a> in the fourth match between the sides at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sundar last played English domestic cricket in 2022 for Lancashire in the County Championship and One Day Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire&#8217;s director of cricket Giles White said: &#8220;We&#8217;re delighted to bring Washington to the club for the County Championship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He had an excellent series against England this summer and he&#8217;ll play a key role with two big games coming up against Somerset and Surrey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire have signed India all-rounder Washington Sundar for their final two County Championship matches against Somerset and Surrey.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-130134","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\/130134","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=130134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}