LV= County Championship: Somerset re-sign Pakistan bowler Abdur Rehman
Friday 7 November 2014 14:36, UK
Somerset have signed Pakistan bowler Abdur Rehman as their overseas player for 2015.
Rehman returns to the County Ground after playing for Somerset in 2012, when claimed 27 wickets at an average of 14.19, including a career-best 9-65 in a championship match against Worcestershire.
The 34-year-old slow left-arm bowler is vastly experienced at all levels and in all formats of the game and has appeared in 22 Test Matches, in which he has taken 99 wickets, 31 One-Day Internationals and 8 Twenty20 Internationals for Pakistan.
“I am very happy to be going back to play for Somerset,” said Rehman. “I hugely enjoyed my time at the County Ground two years ago and I look forward to playing for the County again for the whole of this coming season.”
Matt Maynard the Somerset Director of Cricket said: “Abdur Rehman is a really good signing for us. He is a quality spin bowler and will hopefully help us to turn some of those draws into victories.
“Abdur will be coming back into an environment he is familiar with and playing alongside team mates who he knows from the time he spent here a few years ago.
"He is also a more than useful lower order batsman, a terrier in the field and is available in all three formats all season. He's a quality all round cricketer for us to sign."