{"id":818809,"date":"2026-10-30T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818809\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:56:13","slug":"saif-zaib-hampshire-sign-all-rounder-from-northamptonshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818809\/","title":{"rendered":"Saif Zaib: Hampshire sign all-rounder from Northamptonshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hampshire have signed all-rounder Saif Zaib following his exit from Northamptonshire on Thursday. <\/p>\n

The 28-year-old has penned a “multi-year deal” at the Utilita Bowl, having previously spent 13 years at the County Ground.<\/p>\n

Zaib made more than 200 appearances during his time at Northants, scoring more than 7,300 runs across all formats and helping them to a third T20 Blast title this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’m excited to start a new chapter of my career with Hampshire,” Zaib told Hampshire’s website. , external<\/a><\/p>\n

“They are a highly competitive and ambitious club, and I look forward to joining up with the squad soon. <\/p>\n

“I’ve loved my time at Northamptonshire and can’t thank them enough for giving me the opportunity to play professional cricket, something I’ve been lucky enough to do for 12 years, but I feel now is the time for a change. <\/p>\n

“I want to help get Hampshire back to Division One and contribute to winning matches and tournaments. <\/p>\n

“They are a great force, especially in white ball cricket, and I hope I can be part of the team’s success next season and beyond.”<\/p>\n

Hampshire were relegated<\/a> from Division One of the County Championships last season for the first time since winning promotion in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire have signed all-rounder Saif Zaib following his exit from Northamptonshire on Thursday. The 28-year-old has penned a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818809","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\/818809","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=818809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}