Ajinkya Rahane indicators for Leicestershire County Cricket Club

Ajinkya Rahane signed a deal to play for English county facet Leicestershire, the membership introduced on Monday.

The India worldwide will seem for the facet in eight County Championship matches, in addition to the complete season of the One Day Cup.

“I’m really happy to be joining Leicestershire for the upcoming season. I can’t wait to play alongside my new teammates and explore the vibrant city of Leicester,” Rahane stated after his signing.

He turns into the most recent Indian participant to look within the English First-Class match. Last season, Cheteshwar Pujara, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar and Umesh Yadav had been among the many Indian gamers to characteristic within the match.

Rahane has fallen out of favour with the Indian group and has not featured in a world sport for greater than a yr. He final performed a Test match for India in January 2022 towards South Africa.