England and Leicestershire leg-spinning all-rounder Rehan Ahmed is becoming a member of Delhi Capitals for the rest of this 12 months’s Indian Premier League marketing campaign.
The 21-year-old, who has performed 27 internationals for England throughout all codecs, will go away instantly for his first style of the IPL and will likely be away till not less than the top of the group phases of the competitors on 24 Could.
Delhi are at the moment fifth in the standings, having received three and misplaced three of their six video games to date.
Ahmed, who will earn £60,000, will miss the Foxes’ subsequent 4 County Championship matches and not less than their first two group video games within the T20 Blast.
“We’re completely delighted for Rehan and extremely proud as a membership to see him earn this chance,” Leicestershire director of cricket Claude Henderson stated.
“It is an actual testomony to the laborious work of everybody inside our academy and pathway system, and precisely what we try for.
“We’re excited to look at him go and categorical himself, and we’ll be proper behind him each step of the way in which earlier than welcoming him again to Leicester.”
Ahmed has taken six wickets and scored 56 runs throughout the Foxes’ first two red-ball matches this season on the membership’s return to the primary division of the County Championship.
