{"id":498799,"date":"2026-03-27T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498799\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:33:14","slug":"fazalhaq-farooqi-glamorgan-sign-afghanistan-paceman-for-t20-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498799\/","title":{"rendered":"Fazalhaq Farooqi: Glamorgan sign Afghanistan paceman for T20 Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nathan McAndrew has come for T20 and those two four-dayers which gives us back-up for the bowlers, then Farooqi gives us options with Colin still here as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The T20 fixture list is pretty tough [with back-to-back fixtures] so it&#8217;s touch and go whether fast bowlers can play every game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not just for that tournament, it&#8217;s the impact it has down the line later in the season, so we&#8217;re trying to look after the bowling unit and how we manage that group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New South Wales paceman Ryan Hadley will be in action alongside Ingram for the opening six Championship matches in April and May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c0e7n5x4lyqo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced his signing<\/a> after Dawson saw him in action for Australia A against England Lions in Brisbane in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He hit the deck hard and bowled a good pace, I watched a lot of his footage for New South Wales this year and he got highly recommended, so he&#8217;s keen to come and make an impact for Glamorgan,&#8221; Dawson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan&#8217;s first Championship fixture back in Division One is at home to Yorkshire starting on Friday, 3 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nathan McAndrew has come for T20 and those two four-dayers which gives us back-up for the bowlers, then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-498799","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\/498799","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=498799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}