{"id":5602,"date":"2023-02-27T20:29:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=283944"},"modified":"2023-02-27T20:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:59:47","slug":"south-african-spinner-keshav-maharaj-joins-middlesex-for-2023-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/south-african-spinner-keshav-maharaj-joins-middlesex-for-2023-season\/","title":{"rendered":"South African spinner Keshav Maharaj joins Middlesex for 2023 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keshav Maharaj has been signed as an overseas player by Middlesex for the first four months of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>Maharaj, South Africa\u2019s left-arm spinner, will arrive in time for Middlesex\u2019s third Championship game against Nottinghamshire on April 20 and will be available for eight four-day fixtures and the entire T20 Blast.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Coleman, Middlesex\u2019s director of cricket, stated that bringing in a \u201cworld-class talent\u201d was \u201cessential\u201d ahead of the club\u2019s first season in the Championship\u2019s top division since 2017, and that he would mentor Luke Hollman and Thilan Walallawita.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\uddde\ufe0f | SOUTH AFRICA'S KESHAV MAHARAJ JOINS MIDDLESEX FOR 2023 SEASON<br \/>Middlesex Cricket are delighted to announce that South African <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keshavmaharaj16?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@keshavmaharaj16<\/a> will be available for eight <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CountyChamp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CountyChamp<\/a> matches this summer and the entirety of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalityBlast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VitalityBlast<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>FULL STORY \u2b07\ufe0f | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OneMiddlesex?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OneMiddlesex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Middlesex Cricket (@Middlesex_CCC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Middlesex_CCC\/status\/1630191021685370880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted that Keshav has signed for Middlesex this season and are really excited to have someone of his calibre and experience joining us for the first four months of the season,\u201d Coleman said. \u201cThe young spinners we have in our squad will benefit enormously from having Keshav with us this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keshav Maharaj has been signed as an overseas player by Middlesex for the first four months of the 2023 season\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1759,2307,254],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-keshav-maharaj","tag-middlesex","tag-south-africa"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}