Venkatesh Iyer Joins Lancashire For A Quick Stint

India and Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer on Friday joined Lancashire for a brief stint comprising two Division One matches and One-Day Cup scheduled for subsequent month, the English county introduced. Iyer, who was a member of the IPL profitable KKR aspect, has performed two ODIs and 9 T20Is for India. He has additionally performed 20 First-Class matches, 43 Record-A video games. “The batting all-rounder joins the Membership on an preliminary contract for the One-Day Cup and the next two rounds of County Championship matches in late-August,” Lancashire mentioned on their web site.

“Lancashire is a really historic county with a protracted historical past of welcoming Indian gamers to their Membership. I’m trying ahead to emulating the likes of Farokh Engineer, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman and most lately Washington Sundar in sporting the Purple Rose colors at Previous Trafford,” Iyer mentioned in an announcement.

“To check my expertise in each one-day and first-class cricket in English situations goes to actually profit my recreation,” he added.

Lancashire’s director of cricket efficiency Mark Chilton mentioned, “He comes extremely beneficial after enjoying alongside Phil Salt throughout this 12 months’s IPL and we’re excited to see what he can convey to our aspect throughout the subsequent month,” he added.

“Venkatesh will add expertise to a younger aspect throughout the One-Day Cup, while offering an explosive batting choice within the middle-order and one other seam bowler that we will flip to with the ball.” “He may even be out there for our County Championship matches towards Surrey and Hampshire in the direction of the tip of August and provides us one other high-quality abroad choice to pick out from,” he mentioned.

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