{"id":723715,"date":"2026-08-02T02:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723715\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T02:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:03:10","slug":"tayyab-tahir-pakistan-international-joins-nottinghamshire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723715\/","title":{"rendered":"Tayyab Tahir: Pakistan international joins Nottinghamshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottinghamshire have signed Pakistan white-ball international batter Tayyab Tahir for their next three One-Day Cup fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old, who can also bowl leg-spin, played under Notts&#8217; 50-over head coach Paul Franks during a spell with Central Punjab four years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tahir, who has featured for Pakistan in 11 ODIs as well as eight T20 internationals, replaces opener George Munsey, who is away on international duty with Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I loved playing under Franksie in Pakistan, and the season we were together was one of the best I&#8217;ve had in my life,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/trentbridge.co.uk\/news\/2026\/july\/tayyab-tahir-signs-short-term-deal.html\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Nottinghamshire&#8217;s website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was so approachable and created a really good environment. I will try my best to make a difference, and I want to make sure my time with Notts is memorable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tahir is expected to make his county debut in Sunday&#8217;s Group A fixture against Kent at Beckenham and will also be available for games against Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire later in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottinghamshire have signed Pakistan white-ball international batter Tayyab Tahir for their next three One-Day Cup fixtures. The 33-year-old,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723715","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\/723715","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=723715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}