{"id":434319,"date":"2026-02-19T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434319\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:45:08","slug":"jhye-richardson-joins-yorkshire-for-start-of-county-championship-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434319\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhye Richardson joins Yorkshire for start of County Championship campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yorkshire have made a third Australian overseas signing by bringing in bowler Jhye Richardson for the first block of County Championship fixtures in April and May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old, who has played four Test matches for his country and featured in the recent Ashes, joins Western Australia teammates Sam Whiteman and Andrew &#8216;AJ&#8217; Tye at Headingley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whiteman will play in all formats for the White Rose county, while Tye has signed a two-year deal for the T20 Blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yorkshire&#8217;s general manager of cricket Gavin Hamilton <a href=\"https:\/\/yorkshireccc.com\/news\/yorkshire-sign-jhye-richardson\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website, external<\/a> their latest addition is a &#8220;huge boost&#8221; to their ambitions to improve on last year&#8217;s first season back in Division One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jhye is a very impressive bowler who has performed exceptionally well, and he will really complement the team for that important first part of the season,&#8221; said Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His skillsets are ones suited to English conditions, and he can make things happen with that ability to push his speed into the high 80s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Getting Jhye is a huge boost for us, and his quality underlines our ambition to build a squad capable of seriously competing in the County Championship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yorkshire have made a third Australian overseas signing by bringing in bowler Jhye Richardson for the first block&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434319","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\/434319","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=434319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}