{"id":174372,"date":"2025-10-02T04:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174372\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:12:12","slug":"northamptonshire-yuzvendra-chahal-and-harry-conway-to-return-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174372\/","title":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire: Yuzvendra Chahal and Harry Conway to return in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chahal&#8217;s spell with Northants last summer was cut short when he returned home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cy4rd8r9m49o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">because of personal reasons<\/a> but Northants head coach Darren Lehmann is delighted to see him back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yuzi is a magnificent asset to this squad,&#8221; Lehmann <a href=\"https:\/\/nccc.co.uk\/news\/yuzvendra-chahal-returns-to-northamptonshire-for-2026\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His record across his career speaks for itself and he brings so much class and experience to the group and for young spinners in the group like Nirvan Ramesh and Stuart van der Merwe, having Yuzi around to guide them will be a huge plus for their game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conway&#8217;s second stint at Northants will initially last two months and Lehmann said his compatriot would be an &#8220;excellent addition&#8221; for next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His form last year was fantastic, and I am excited to work with him for a longer period,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/nccc.co.uk\/news\/conway-re-joins-northamptonshire-for-two-month-stint\/?_gl=1*1erejdj*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTA1MzAyMjE2Ny4xNzU5MzI1NDc4*_ga_0F894TRDT6*czE3NTkzMjU0NzckbzEkZzEkdDE3NTkzMjU0ODEkajU2JGwwJGgzMDIwNTQ1NDE.\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lehmann said., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His ability to take wickets on all surfaces and presence around the team makes him an invaluable player.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chahal&#8217;s spell with Northants last summer was cut short when he returned home because of personal reasons but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-174372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174372","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=174372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}