{"id":368981,"date":"2026-01-14T08:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368981\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:18:13","slug":"moeen-ali-lined-up-for-shock-return-to-english-domestic-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368981\/","title":{"rendered":"Moeen Ali lined up for shock return to English domestic cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former England all-rounder appeared to have played his final match in county cricket for boyhood club Warwickshire in last summer\u2019s T20 Blast.<\/p>\n<p>But reports now claim the 38-year-old will sign for Yorkshire as a specialist T20 player for this year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Moeen, who has continued to play in franchise leagues abroad and recently relocated his family from Birmingham to Dubai, announced his decision to retire from the domestic game last February.<\/p>\n<p>Though he pulled out of last summer\u2019s edition of The Hundred, he did feature for the Bears in the Blast, with a low-key outing at Leicestershire on July 4 his final appearance.<\/p>\n<p>But it now appears not to have been his last on English soil with Yorkshire poised to become the third county of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Moeen came through the ranks at Warwickshire but spent 15 years at Worcestershire, whom he captained to victory in the Blast in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He made his England Test debut in 2014 and went on to score more than 3,000 runs and take 200 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>In the game\u2019s shorter formats, he was part of the teams which won the 2019 World Cup and T20 World Cup in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Moeen retired from Test cricket in 2021 before coming back to play in the 2023 home Ashes series against Australia, which ended in a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n<p>He then finally called time on his international career in September 2024 and has most recently been playing in the Bangladesh Premier League.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former England all-rounder appeared to have played his final match in county cricket for boyhood club Warwickshire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-368981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sport","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368981","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=368981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}