Leicestershire have signed Warwickshire fast bowler Nathan Gilchrist on a two-game County Championship loan.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old has been brought in as injury cover and is available for the Foxes’ next two Division One matches against Somerset – which starts on Tuesday – and then bottom side Hampshire.<\/p>\n
However, Gilchrist will not be eligible to play in Leicestershire’s One Day Cup final clash with Middlesex, at Trent Bridge, on Sunday, 20 September.<\/p>\n
The right-arm quick joined Warwickshire ahead of the 2026 season following five years with Kent and also represented England Lions last winter.<\/p>\n
Gilchrist’s most recent first-class appearance came against Somerset in June, but he also played in the Bears’ One Day Cup campaign.<\/p>\n
“It’s a great opportunity for me to get some Championship cricket under my belt, and hopefully I can come in, contribute to the team and help the lads finish the season strongly,” Gilchrist told the club website.<\/p>\n
Leicestershire are second-bottom of Division One but are just seven points from safety with three matches to play.<\/p>\n
“He’s a high-quality fast bowler who has already shown what he can do at first-class level, and his involvement with England Lions speaks to the quality he possesses,” added Leicestershire director of cricket Claude Henderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire have signed Warwickshire fast bowler Nathan Gilchrist on a two-game County Championship loan. The 26-year-old has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-763188","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\/763188","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=763188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}