{"id":380257,"date":"2026-01-20T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380257\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:21:08","slug":"naveen-ul-haq-yorkshire-sign-afghanistan-bowler-for-2026-t20-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380257\/","title":{"rendered":"Naveen Ul-Haq: Yorkshire sign Afghanistan bowler for 2026 T20 Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yorkshire have signed Afghanistan fast bowler Naveen Ul-Haq as an overseas player for the 2026 T20 Blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old has previously played in the competition with Leicestershire and is seen as a Twenty20 specialist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his three-season spell with the Foxes, Ul-Haq finished as the Blast&#8217;s leading wicket taker in the 2021 tournament with 26 and second highest the season after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a real honour to sign with Yorkshire, a club with a very proud history,&#8221; said Ul-Haq, who becomes the first Afghan player to represent the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very excited to play in front of the Yorkshire public at Headingley and contribute to a strong campaign in the 2026 Blast. I&#8217;m looking forward to working with the players and coaches and hopefully bringing some success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A prolific talent in the short format, Ul-Haq has taken 271 wickets in 223 T20 matches so far with career best figures of 5-11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has the ability to consistently make a significant impact on games and brings us exceptional quality and T20 experience for someone who is still young,&#8221; Gavin Hamilton, Yorkshire&#8217;s general manager of cricket, added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yorkshire have signed Afghanistan fast bowler Naveen Ul-Haq as an overseas player for the 2026 T20 Blast. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-380257","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\/380257","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=380257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}