{"id":705086,"date":"2026-07-22T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705086\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:49:08","slug":"indian-international-kuldeep-yadav-joins-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705086\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian international Kuldeep Yadav joins Yorkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yorkshire County Cricket Club is delighted to announce the overseas signing of Indian\u00a0international\u00a0spinner, Kuldeep Yadav.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old will\u00a0be available for five Metro Bank One Day Cup\u00a0matches, before returning to Headingley for\u00a0three of the final four Rothesay County Championship fixtures in September.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yadav goes\u00a0straight into the squad for Friday\u2019s\u00a050-over\u00a0clash with\u00a0Glamorgan at Neath.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The left-armer has\u00a0claimed\u00a079 wickets at\u00a0an average of\u00a022 with a best return of 5-40 across his 18 test matches.\u00a0He starred against England in 2024, taking\u00a019\u00a0wickets across the five-match series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In ODI\u2019s he has been even more prolific, taking 194 wickets with a best of\u00a06-25.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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(Photo by Pankaj Nangia\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

On joining Yorkshire, Yadav said: \u201cI\u2019m\u00a0really\u00a0pleased\u00a0to be joining Yorkshire and grateful\u00a0for\u00a0this opportunity. It will be a real privilege to\u00a0represent\u00a0a Club\u00a0with\u00a0Yorkshire\u2019s proud history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always enjoyed the challenge of playing in English conditions and after speaking with the management,\u00a0I\u00a0became really excited to join up with the team and\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0looking forward to making a positive contribution during my time at Headingley.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gavin Hamilton, General Manager of\u00a0Cricket\u00a0added, \u201cKuldeep is an accomplished, international quality player who will add incredible strength to our lineup for these blocks of fixtures.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the dry summer\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0experienced, we expect\u00a0spin\u00a0to play\u00a0an important role\u00a0during the closing stages of the season. Kuldeep gives us another dimension with his left-arm wrist spin and brings a wealth of experience at the highest level. We\u2019re delighted to welcome him to Yorkshire.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yorkshire County Cricket Club is delighted to announce the overseas signing of Indian\u00a0international\u00a0spinner, Kuldeep Yadav.\u00a0\u00a0 The 31-year-old will\u00a0be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705086","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\/705086","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=705086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}