{"id":386232,"date":"2026-01-23T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386232\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:48:09","slug":"wiaan-mulder-south-africa-all-rounder-agrees-essex-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386232\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiaan Mulder: South Africa all-rounder agrees Essex deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex director of cricket Chris Silverwood <a href=\"https:\/\/essexcricket.org.uk\/2026\/01\/23\/wiaan-mulder-signs-for-essex\/\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website, external<\/a>: &#8220;He is a proven international performer and one of the most complete all-rounders in the game today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His ability to contribute consistently with both bat and ball will add real balance to our squad, and his experience at the highest level will be invaluable to our group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mulder, who also played for Kent and Leicestershire, will be available for the Championship opener against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl on 3 April and will play his final game in the T20 Blast at Chelmsford on 9 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am really excited about joining Essex and coming back to the UK for a new challenge,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have always had great experiences playing here and am looking forward to seeing what we can achieve together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mulder will join fellow South Africans Simon Harmer and Dean Elgar at Chelmsford &#8211; although the latter does not count as an overseas player as he also has a UK passport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essex director of cricket Chris Silverwood told the club website, external: &#8220;He is a proven international performer and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-386232","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\/386232","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=386232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}