{"id":681191,"date":"2026-07-08T22:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681191\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:29:12","slug":"r-sai-kishore-gloucestershire-sign-india-bowler-for-rest-of-county-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681191\/","title":{"rendered":"R Sai Kishore: Gloucestershire sign India bowler for rest of County Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire have signed India bowler R Sai Kishore for the remaining six matches of the County Championship season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-arm spinner had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cglz605zwgko\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two-game spell with Surrey<\/a> last season, taking five wickets in their victory at Durham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old has three T20 international caps for his country and has played for Tamil Nadu in India&#8217;s Ranji Trophy for the past nine years, while he was part of the Gujarat Titans squad in the Indian Premier League that won the competition in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has taken 223 wickets, including 14 five-wicket hauls, in 54 first-class matches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire have won one of eight matches in the County Championship so far this season and sit bottom of the Division Two table. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director of cricket Jon Lewis said they were &#8220;committed&#8221; to playing better cricket for the rest of the campaign, which resumes on 20 August at home to Worcestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The conditions at this time of year are often very conducive to spin bowling, so we&#8217;re hopeful Sai can make a significant contribution and have a really positive impact on the team,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire have signed India bowler R Sai Kishore for the remaining six matches of the County Championship season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681191","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\/681191","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=681191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}