{"id":416017,"date":"2025-09-11T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416017\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:38:10","slug":"washington-sundar-hampshire-sign-india-all-rounder-for-two-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416017\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Sundar: Hampshire sign India all-rounder for two matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hampshire have signed India all-rounder Washington Sundar for their final two  County Championship matches against Somerset and Surrey.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old played a key role in India&#8217;s Test series draw with England this summer, taking seven wickets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored 284 runs at an average of 47, scoring his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/crevdrge55qo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first Test century<\/a> in the fourth match between the sides at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sundar last played English domestic cricket in 2022 for Lancashire in the County Championship and One Day Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire&#8217;s director of cricket Giles White said: &#8220;We&#8217;re delighted to bring Washington to the club for the County Championship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He had an excellent series against England this summer and he&#8217;ll play a key role with two big games coming up against Somerset and Surrey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire have signed India all-rounder Washington Sundar for their final two County Championship matches against Somerset and Surrey.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416017","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\/115186179079638604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416017","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=416017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}