{"id":176302,"date":"2025-06-11T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176302\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:10:18","slug":"hampshire-sign-tilak-varma-for-a-short-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176302\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire sign Tilak Varma for a short stint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> GAME TIME <\/p>\n<p>           <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cursor-pointer\" height=\"396\" width=\"595\" alt=\"Tilak Varma will at least play four four-day games.\" title=\"Tilak Varma will at least play four four-day games.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/tilak-varma-will-at-least-play.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Tilak Varma will at least play four four-day games. \u00a9 Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Tilak Varma has been recruited by Hampshire County Cricket Club. The left-handed Hyderabad batter has been offered a stint for close to two months by the Southampton head-quartered county. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) have extended him the NOC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> According to information available with Cricbuzz, Varma, 22, will play for the English county from June 18 to August 2 during which he will feature in four four-day games initially. Whether he will represent the county in white ball games also is not clear. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8220;The Hyderabad Cricket Association is happy to inform that Hyderabad International player Mr. N Thakur Tilak Varma has been approached by the team Hampshire County to play in the UK County Championship League. The Hyderabad Cricket Association wishes him a great stint with Hampshire County,&#8221; the HCA said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> In 18 first class games, Varma has 1204 runs at an average of over 50 with five centuries and four half centuries. He is of course a white-ball specialist, having represented India in four ODIs and 25 T20Is with a particularly healthy average of close to 50 (49.93) average in T20Is (749 runs in 24 innings) and a strike rate of 155. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Hampshire county, as is well known, has been purchased by Hyderabad-based GMR Group, and it is not a surprise that the club has chosen Varma. James Vince, a right-handed batter and an occasional right-arm medium bowler, is the white ball skipper of Hampshire. Ben Brown, a right-handed wicket keeper batter, is the captain of the county in red ball format. <\/p>\n<p> \u00a9 Cricbuzz <\/p>\n<p>     RELATED STORIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAME TIME Tilak Varma will at least play four four-day games. \u00a9 Getty Tilak Varma has been recruited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-176302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114666080414585853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}