{"id":755685,"date":"2026-08-31T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755685\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:04:09","slug":"durham-india-batter-mayank-agarwal-joins-for-championship-run-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755685\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham: India batter Mayank Agarwal joins for Championship run-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India batter Mayank Agarwal has joined Durham for the run-in to the County Championship season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Agarwal will be available for Durham&#8217;s last four games as they chase promotion back to Division One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old has played 21 Tests, the most recent in March 2022, and five One-Day internationals for India<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Agarwal, who had a brief spell with Yorkshire last year, averages 43.98 in first-class cricket and he will replace David Bedingham, who is returning to South Africa to prepare for their Test series with Australia next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mayank is a hugely talented batter who has a superb first-class record, we look forward to him contributing to Durham as we look to secure our return to Division One of the County Championship,&#8221; head coach Ryan Campbell told the club&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With four matches to go, Durham are 40 points ahead of both Kent and Northamptonshire with their next match away to the latter, starting on Wednesday (10:30 BST).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India batter Mayank Agarwal has joined Durham for the run-in to the County Championship season. Agarwal will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-755685","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\/755685","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=755685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}