{"id":570198,"date":"2026-05-07T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570198\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:11:11","slug":"tom-helm-leicestershire-sign-middlesex-seamer-on-14-day-loan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570198\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Helm: Leicestershire sign Middlesex seamer on 14-day loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire have signed fast bowler Tom Helm on a two-week loan deal from Middlesex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old former England Lions seamer has taken 177 wickets in 65 first-class games at an average of 32.08 and is available for this week&#8217;s trip to Sussex, which starts on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Foxes are yet to win after earning promotion to Division One for this season, having drawn two and lost two of their first four matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club has been playing some really good cricket and there&#8217;s a strong group here, so I&#8217;m looking forward to contributing however I can and helping the team,&#8221; Helm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestershireccc.co.uk\/news\/leicestershire-sign-tom-helm-on-two-week-loan-deal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Foxes&#8217; club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Alfonso Thomas said Helm, was a &#8220;high-quality bowler&#8221; who gives the squad &#8220;another strong option within our attack&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helm, who has a career-best haul of 6-110, taken against Surrey in 2023, has played once for Middlesex this summer &#8211; taking 2-77 in the draw against Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire have signed fast bowler Tom Helm on a two-week loan deal from Middlesex. The 31-year-old former England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570198","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\/570198","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=570198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}