London, March 13: India’s swashbuckling opener Virender Sehwag has signed a deal with English county Northamptonshire to play in this summer’s Friends Provident T20.
Sehwag, whose only previous experience of county cricket came with Northamptonshire’s neighbours Leicestershire, said of his new deal,”I am looking forward to the T20 campaign and I am delighted to have joined the county.” Northamptonshire, 2009 Twenty20 Cup semi-finalists, also hoped that the 31-year-old’s destructive strokeplay would help them go even further this time round.
”This is absolutely fantastic news for the club and shows everyone that we want to continue our year-on-year improvement,” Northamptonshire chief Executive Mark Tagg was quoted as saying by ‘The Telegraph’.
”We hope this shows our fans we are serious in our ambitions to become the best county cricket club in the country,” he added.
–Agencies