{"id":682566,"date":"2026-01-08T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682566\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:20:10","slug":"mohammad-ali-nottinghamshire-sign-pakistan-seam-bowler-on-short-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682566\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammad Ali: Nottinghamshire sign Pakistan seam bowler on short-term deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Nottinghamshire have signed Pakistan seamer Mohammad Ali on a short-term deal for the later stages of the upcoming season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old, who has been capped four times at Test level and has featured in all formats for his country, is scheduled to join Notts for the last six matches of what will be their County Championship Division One title defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His spell at Trent Bridge will start with the white ball in the One-Day Cup competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is with the red ball that Ali has made the biggest impact in his career, with 222 of his 332 wickets coming in first-class matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Central Punjab in the 2022-23 season Ali played under now Notts assistant coach Paul Franks to win the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Pakistan&#8217;s domestic first-class title, as well as the 50-over crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve explored other opportunities to bring him to the club in the past, but this one felt like it was at a really good time for him and for us,&#8221; Franks told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trentbridge.co.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was Mohammad&#8217;s character and personality that really hit home for me when I coached him while in Pakistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottinghamshire have signed Pakistan seamer Mohammad Ali on a short-term deal for the later stages of the upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-682566","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\/115860394885005265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682566","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=682566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}