Leicestershire have signed South Africa all-rounder Ruan de Swardt to cover for Nick Kelly, while the New Zealander is on international duty.<\/p>\n
De Swardt, 28, slots into a Leicestershire side who are bottom of their T20 Blast group and replaces their top scorer in the competition this season – with Kelly leading the way with 243 runs from nine game.<\/p>\n
Kelly has been called up for New Zealand’s one-day series against West Indies, starting in Guyana on July 11.<\/p>\n
De Swardt, whose two Test appearances for South Africa came in 2024, joins the Foxes for their three remaining T20 group games and will stay on for their opening three One-Day Cup matches later in July.<\/p>\n
It will be De Swardt’s first stint in English cricket, having so far spent his entire first-class and T20 career at home in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Leicestershire director of cricket Claude Henderson said said De Swardt is a player who can make “an impact” with the bat and ball in both white ball competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire have signed South Africa all-rounder Ruan de Swardt to cover for Nick Kelly, while the New Zealander…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678434","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\/678434","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=678434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}