Jayant Yadav joins Middlesex for four County Championship games

Former India offspinner Jayant Yadav has joined Middlesex for their final four fixtures of the ongoing County Championship, the club announced on Friday (September 1). 

The 33-year-old has played six Tests for India, picking up 16 wickets at an average of 29.06. The spin-bowling all-rounder also managed 248 runs in nine innings at an average of 31, including one century against England. Though he hasn’t played for India since March 2022.

"I am honoured and excited to join the prestigious Middlesex County Cricket Club for the upcoming Championship games and be a part of its rich cricketing history,” said Jayant, who played two matches for Warwickshire in 2022.

“I enjoyed my experience of playing county cricket last year and am eagerly looking forward to the new stint with Middlesex and contributing to the Club's success.”

The offspinner will join Middlesex later this week and be available to play in the first of those four encounters, against Essex at Chelmsford next week, and then in the three remaining red-ball games of the season.

Overall, in 75 first-class games, Jayant has scalped 205 wickets and scored 2596 runs at an average of 25.45, studded with three hundreds and 12 fifties.

Middlesex's Director of Cricket, Alan Coleman, said: "With Pieter Malan returning home to South Africa, we wanted to bolster the squad with another quality signing ahead of four crucial matches that lay ahead of us in September.

"We feel that spin will be an important factor in September and the opportunity to sign an international spinner of Jayant's quality was too good an opportunity to turn down.

"He brings us that extra bit of something you get from an international cricketer, experience, quality, know how - all attributes that will prove hugely valuable to us in the coming games.

"We can't wait to have him with us and wish him every success here over the coming month."