{"id":676534,"date":"2026-07-06T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676534\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:58:08","slug":"binura-fernando-sri-lanka-seamer-joins-notts-outlaws-for-t20-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676534\/","title":{"rendered":"Binura Fernando: Sri Lanka seamer joins Notts Outlaws for T20 Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sri Lanka seamer Binura Fernando has joined Notts Outlaws for the remainder of their T20 Blast campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old will replace fellow seamer Mohammad Ali, who has been called up for international duty with Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fernando will be eligible to play in both of the Outlaws&#8217; remaining North Group games against Leicestershire Foxes and Yorkshire and all potential knockout matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Notts currently lead North Group by two points from Yorkshire after a run of seven successive wins and need just one more point to clinch a place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Left-armer Fernando, who is 6ft 6ins, has 29 white-ball caps and 26 wickets for Sri Lanka and has appeared at two World Cups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has a proven record in white-ball cricket and real international pedigree, his skillset adds genuine variety to the team, and he will complement the rest of our bowling attack,&#8221; Notts head coach Peter Moores <a href=\"https:\/\/trentbridge.co.uk\/news\/2026\/july\/fernando-agrees-deal-for-vitality-blast-conclusion.html\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ali is the second-highest wicket-taker in this season&#8217;s competition, with 19 from 10 matches and an economy rate of 7.73.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moores added: &#8220;It will be a shame to lose Mohammad Ali, who has done really well for us up until now, but we wish him all the best with Pakistan and we&#8217;re excited to have Binura join in his place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka seamer Binura Fernando has joined Notts Outlaws for the remainder of their T20 Blast campaign. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676534","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\/676534","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=676534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}