{"id":674576,"date":"2026-07-05T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674576\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:00:16","slug":"former-indian-cricketer-joins-jaffna-for-2026-lpl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674576\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Indian Cricketer joins Jaffna for 2026 LPL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fc2d2\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateor_sss_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Former%20Indian%20Cricketer%20joins%20Jaffna%20for%202026%20LPL%20season&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fc2d2\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Whatsapp\" class=\"heateor_sss_whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Former%20Indian%20Cricketer%20joins%20Jaffna%20for%202026%20LPL%20season%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fc2d2\" title=\"Whatsapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.lk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newswire-icon.jpg\" style=\"width:108px; height:20px; margin-top:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-243678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_20260704_193838_Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Indian cricketer Piyush Chawla has joined the Jaffna franchise for the 2026 Lanka Premier League (LPL) season.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran leg-spinner, who represented India in both Tests and limited-overs cricket, will add experience to the Jaffna squad ahead of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Chawla has enjoyed a long and successful domestic and franchise career, including multiple Indian Premier League (IPL) titles, and was part of India\u2019s 2007 ICC T20 World Cup and 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup-winning squads.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 LPL is set to feature several international and local stars as franchises continue to strengthen their squads ahead of the tournament. (Newswire)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Indian cricketer Piyush Chawla has joined the Jaffna franchise for the 2026 Lanka Premier League (LPL) season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674576","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\/674576","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=674576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}