{"id":27722,"date":"2026-04-01T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/leicestershire-sign-seamer-yadvinder-singh-on-short-term-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:19:00","slug":"leicestershire-sign-seamer-yadvinder-singh-on-short-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/leicestershire-sign-seamer-yadvinder-singh-on-short-term-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicestershire sign seamer Yadvinder Singh on short-term deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Leicestershire have bolstered their seam attack with the signing of Yadvinder Singh on a short-term deal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India-born Singh is a product of the South Asian Cricket Academy and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/68069846\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">previously played professionally for Worcestershire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old has played two first-class matches, taking six wickets at an average of 36.50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has trained with Leicestershire through the off-season and will be available for the first month of the new campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yadvinder has been with us over the winter and has impressed with both his skill and attitude,&#8221; head coach Alfonso Thomas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With a few injuries in our seam group, it&#8217;s a good opportunity for him and he adds important depth to the squad at the start of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c5ywqz87k1yo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicestershire have bolstered their seam attack with the signing of Yadvinder Singh on a short-term deal. India-born Singh is a product of the South Asian Cricket Academy and has previously played professionally for Worcestershire. The 30-year-old has played two first-class matches, taking six wickets at an average of 36.50. He has trained with Leicestershire through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27722","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=27722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27724,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27722\/revisions\/27724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}