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3 days ago
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Out-of-Favour Pakistan Batter Set To Replace Ruturaj Gaikwad In County Championship: Report
Gaikwad was supposed to play five matches for the club in the final leg of the County Championship 2025. But he withdrew earlier this week, citing personal reasons. The Yorkshire County Cricket Club is set to sign Pakistan opener Imam Ul Haq after Indian opener Ruturaj Gaikwad pulled out citing personal reasons. Gaikwad had agreed to play five matches for the club in the final leg of the County Championship 2025 season. But the Indian opening batter withdrew earlier this week, citing personal reasons. 'Unfortunately, Gaikwad's not coming now for personal reasons," McGrath was quoted saying by the club in the official statement. 'We're not going to have him for Scarborough or for the rest of the season. So that's disappointing. I can't tell you anything about the reasons why, but we hope that everything's ok. We've literally just found out." 'We're working to try and get a possible replacement, but time pressure is the issue. I can't give you anything more than that at the moment," he added. Gaikwad would have made his county cricket debut against Surrey on Tuesday. However, the Yorkshire CCC is now looking to rope in Imam as the Indian batter's replacement. According to the county club is actively looking to fill the void left by the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain. Hence, they are initiating talks with Pakistan cricket Imam-ul-Haq. However, an official confirmation is yet to be received from Yorkshire CCC. Imam-ul-Haq isn't a new figure in English county cricket. He had represented Somerset in 2022 in the final four matches and played a key role in helping them avoid relegation. On his County debut, on September 6, 2022, he made an immediate impact with a gritty 90 against Gloucestershire. Imam has so far played 24 Test matches for Pakistan, scoring 1,568 runs at an average of 37.33. He has three centuries and nine fifties to his name, with a strike rate of 46.06. In first-class cricket, the left-hander has featured in 84 matches, amassing 5,453 runs, including 15 centuries and 25 fifties, with a best score of 202 not out. view comments Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
BBC News
11-05-2025
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Essex slump towards defeat by Yorkshire
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford (day three)Yorkshire 216 & 426-6 dec: Lyth 185, Bairstow 79, Wharton 61; Thain 3-96Essex 123: Pepper 30; Hill 6-51, Coad 3-20 & 64-4 White 3-17Essex (3 pts) need another 456 to beat Yorkshire (3 pts) with six wickets standingMatch scorecard Adam Lyth's patiently accumulated 185, and Jonny Bairstow's typically belligerent half-century, set Essex an unlikely 520 to prevent Yorkshire chalking up their second County Championship win of the second century of the spring, the 39th of his 18-year first-class career, spanned six hours and 41 minutes of determination and obduracy. The 37-year-old left-hander shared a 153-run second-wicket stand with James Wharton, who added 61 to his unbeaten 63 from the first innings, that underpinned Yorkshire's 426-6 declaration was hastened by Bairstow's 79 from74 balls that included three sixes and was part of a roller-coaster sixth-wicket stand of 99 with Matty Revis, who contributed 37 off 32 balls. Bairstow, dropped on five by slip that would have enhanced Thain's analysis, played an unorthodox reverse sweep-cum-pull that sent a delivery from Critchley for six over point. With the declaration looming, Bairstow and Revis rattled off 29 runs in a 14-ball spree before the captain raced past his second half-century of the season with two sixes in the last over before tea from Shane Snater that also included a ramped batted on for 14 balls after tea before Bairstow holed out to long-on and immediately called a halt to Sam Cook rested in light of his potential England debut against Zimbabwe later this month, the Essex attack had lacked penetration. And the only consolation for Essex's dispirited fielders who circled the boundary by the end, were career-best bowling figures of 3-96 for young seamer Noah sense of gathering despair continued when Essex batted. They lost four wickets in the 27 overs that remained in the day in the face of some accurate seam bowling from Jack White, who took 3-17. Essex eked out 64 runs by the close but, with 456 to win, are staring down the barrel of back-to-back defeats when they resume on day chances of batting out nearly four sessions became considerably slimmer when White got a delivery to jump up around Dean Elgar's adam's apple as early as the second over and it was fended off into third slip's Hill followed up his six-wicket haul from the first innings by trapping Tom Westley lbw with only his fourth delivery in the second. And next over Charlie Allison drove White uppishly to a tumbling mid-off while Robin Das nudged one to first Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
