{"id":758462,"date":"2026-09-03T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758462\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:08:09","slug":"auqib-nabi-surrey-sign-india-seamer-for-three-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758462\/","title":{"rendered":"Auqib Nabi: Surrey sign India seamer for three matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey have signed Indian seamer Auqib Nabi for their next three County Championship fixtures as they battle to stay in Division One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old is available for their two home matches with Yorkshire and Glamorgan, as well as the away fixture against Sussex at Hove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey won three successive titles between 2022 and 2024, and were runners-up in 2025. This summer, they have won just one of their 10 matches so far and sit eighth in the table, just three points above the relegation places. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nabi was recently called up to the India squad for their Test series against Sri Lanka having represented the India A side earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was named player of the tournament in India&#8217;s premier red-ball competition, the Ranji Trophy, in 2025-26, taking 60 wickets for first-time champions Jammu and Kashmir at an average of just over 12.5 runs per wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alec Stewart, director of men&#8217;s cricket, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiaoval.com\/auqib-nabi-joins-surrey-for-three-matches\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website:, external<\/a> &#8220;With the exceptionally challenging schedule of six games in six weeks, with minimal recovery between matches along with international fixtures, we&#8217;ve had to add options to our bowling stocks for the County Championship run-in.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey have signed Indian seamer Auqib Nabi for their next three County Championship fixtures as they battle to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758462","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\/758462","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=758462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}