Indian batter Karun Nair has signed up with English county s🌜ide Northamptﷺonshire to play their remaining three County Championship games this season.
The 31-year-old, who played six Tests forᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ India, replaced Sam 🤡Whiteman, who has returned to Australia.
"I'm looking forward to joining Nor🃏tham🍸ptonshire and getting to play in the County Championship," Nair said in a statement.
"You hear a lot about county cricket, and I know Prithvi [Shaw] enjoyed his time with the team, so it'꧙s exciting to have the opportunity to be involv♊ed too.
"Hopefully, I can make an impact on the team while I'm there, that's the main thing for me. It's about doing as much as I can to help the team get some wins in these last three ga𓆏mes."
The Jodhpur-born cricketer arrived in the UK on Friday and will join N🌄orthamptonshire ahead of its match against Warwickshire beginning🐻 on Sunday.
Nair is only the second Indian after Virender Sehwag to score a triple-hundred for India in Test cricket. He achieved the feat in ꩵDecember 2016, scoring an unbeaten 303 in his thi🔥rd Test against England in Chennai.
He also featured in two ODIs for India but has fallen out of favour since acr⛦oss all formats.
Nair🍌 boasts of a solid career in domestic cricket, having scored 5922 runs in 85 First-Class games.
"It's great that we've been able to secure Karun to come over for the rema💝inder of the season, he's keen to get going," head coach John Sadler said.
"He's a high-class batter who's scored something like 11,000 runs in his career and his f🍨irst-class numbers are particularly special."
Northamptonshire is at the bottom of Division ꦐOne and plays Warwickshire at Edgbaston on Sunday.
