{"id":507713,"date":"2026-04-01T20:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507713\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:56:13","slug":"leicestershire-sign-seamer-yadvinder-singh-on-short-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507713\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicestershire sign seamer Yadvinder Singh on short-term deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire have bolstered their seam attack with the signing of Yadvinder Singh on a short-term deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India-born Singh is a product of the South Asian Cricket Academy and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/68069846\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously played professionally for Worcestershire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old has played two first-class matches, taking six wickets at an average of 36.50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has trained with Leicestershire through the off-season and will be available for the first month of the new campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yadvinder has been with us over the winter and has impressed with both his skill and attitude,&#8221; head coach Alfonso Thomas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With a few injuries in our seam group, it&#8217;s a good opportunity for him and he adds important depth to the squad at the start of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire have bolstered their seam attack with the signing of Yadvinder Singh on a short-term deal. India-born Singh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-507713","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\/507713","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=507713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}