{"id":24959,"date":"2026-01-24T00:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wiaan-mulder-south-africa-all-rounder-agrees-essex-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:58:07","slug":"wiaan-mulder-south-africa-all-rounder-agrees-essex-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wiaan-mulder-south-africa-all-rounder-agrees-essex-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiaan Mulder: South Africa all-rounder agrees Essex deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex director of cricket Chris Silverwood <a href=\"https:\/\/essexcricket.org.uk\/2026\/01\/23\/wiaan-mulder-signs-for-essex\/\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">told the club website<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>: &#8220;He is a proven international performer and one of the most complete all-rounders in the game today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His ability to contribute consistently with both bat and ball will add real balance to our squad, and his experience at the highest level will be invaluable to our group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mulder, who also played for Kent and Leicestershire, will be available for the Championship opener against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl on 3 April and will play his final game in the T20 Blast at Chelmsford on 9 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am really excited about joining Essex and coming back to the UK for a new challenge,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have always had great experiences playing here and am looking forward to seeing what we can achieve together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mulder will join fellow South Africans Simon Harmer and Dean Elgar at Chelmsford &#8211; although the latter does not count as an overseas player as he also has a UK passport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c5y22nnm6r0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essex director of cricket Chris Silverwood told the club website, external: &#8220;He is a proven international performer and one of the most complete all-rounders in the game today. &#8220;His ability to contribute consistently with both bat and ball will add real balance to our squad, and his experience at the highest level will be invaluable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24961,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24959\/revisions\/24961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}