{"id":3770,"date":"2024-08-27T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T16:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/amar-virdi-worcestershire-re-sign-spinner-for-championship-run-in\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T16:39:17","slug":"amar-virdi-worcestershire-re-sign-spinner-for-championship-run-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/amar-virdi-worcestershire-re-sign-spinner-for-championship-run-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Amar Virdi: Worcestershire re-sign spinner for Championship run-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Worcestershire have re-signed Surrey off-spinner Amar Virdi for their four remaining County Championship games of 2024.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old played in the win over Durham in late June-early July, although he did not bowl a single over in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Virdi has taken 123 wickets in 42 first-class matches but has not played a Championship game for Surrey since 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is obviously a gap in our squad when it comes to spin so it feels like he is a really good fit for us having already been with us,&#8221; said head coach Alan Richardson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cvg58gz6yv5o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worcestershire have re-signed Surrey off-spinner Amar Virdi for their four remaining County Championship games of 2024. The 26-year-old played in the win over Durham in late June-early July, although he did not bowl a single over in the game. Virdi has taken 123 wickets in 42 first-class matches but has not played a Championship game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3770","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\/3770","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=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}