{"id":319225,"date":"2025-12-16T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319225\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:58:09","slug":"mohammad-abbas-derbyshire-make-statement-signing-for-promotion-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319225\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammad Abbas: Derbyshire make &#8216;statement&#8217; signing for promotion push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Abbas, who has taken 100 Test wickets including a Test-best 6-54 against South Africa last year, is well suited to English conditions having also enjoyed successful spells with Leicestershire and Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arthur, who gave Abbas his Test debut in 2017, is excited to welcome him on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a statement signing for us,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/derbyshireccc.com\/2025\/12\/derbyshire-sign-mohammad-abbas\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur told the club&#8217;s website., external<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve beaten a number of Division One counties to sign one of the finest red ball bowlers around and we&#8217;re absolutely delighted to have Mohammad on board for 2026 and 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s an exceptional bowler. He bowls maidens, he builds pressure and his wickets come at a really impressive average. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, it&#8217;s not just his ability which will be huge for us, his experience is going to be massive for our young players to learn from.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abbas, who has taken 100 Test wickets including a Test-best 6-54 against South Africa last year, is well&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-319225","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\/319225","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=319225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}