{"id":3584,"date":"2022-03-10T17:56:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=201647"},"modified":"2022-03-10T17:56:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:26:38","slug":"surrey-ropes-in-sunil-narine-for-vitality-blast-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/surrey-ropes-in-sunil-narine-for-vitality-blast-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey ropes in Sunil Narine for Vitality Blast Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After joining Surrey, Sunil Narine will make his debut appearance in the Vitality T20 Blast. Narine, who will relocate to London once his IPL contract expires, was a member of the Oval-based Invincible during last year\u2019s Hundred.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first of Surrey\u2019s two overseas slots for the Blitz will go to Narine, who was released by Oval Invincibles but may yet be re-signed at this month\u2019s draught. Surrey kick off their season against Glamorgan at home on May 27, two days before the IPL final, with Narine anticipated to play throughout after arriving from India.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to have the opportunity to play for Surrey in the Vitality Blast this year; one of the few competitions around the world I\u2019ve not experienced in my career,\u201d Narine told the Surrey official website.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted Sunil will be joining us for this year\u2019s Vitality Blast,\u201d said Alec Stewart, Surrey\u2019s director of cricket, in the Surrey\u2019s official website.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis expertise in internationals and leagues throughout the world will be a tremendous asset as a proven winner in this format.\u201d This summer, I\u2019m looking forward to watching him perform in a Surrey shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surrey were defeated finalists in the Blast last year and lost out in the knockout rounds this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfdf Sunil Narine can't wait to play at The Kia Oval!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Surrey Cricket (@surreycricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/surreycricket\/status\/1501604854351134722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrey has signed veteran West Indian spinner Sunil Narine for the 2022 edition of the T20 Blast, which begins on May 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[622,2338,610,1533],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-sunil-narine","tag-surrey","tag-vitality-t20","tag-west-indies-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}