Mystery spinner Shivil Kaushik signs to play with English club Hull CCC

Gujarat Lions mystery spinner Shivil Kaushik is set to gain some international exposure post his IPL stint after he signed a contract with Hull CCC in the Yorkshire Premier League. Shivil will be leaving for his English stint within a week, reports Sportskeeda.

“Shivil will be with us shortly. We are very much looking forward to having him join us for the rest of the season. We’ve obviously seen him in the IPL and we’re sure he’ll be a great success over here in the Yorkshire Premier League. We won our first 4 games in the League but we have slipped up in recent weeks. With the addition of Shivil, we’re hoping to get back to winning ways,” The 141-year-old English club told Sportskeeda.

There are seven overseas players in the twelve teams this season in the Yorkshire Premier League North.

Shivil said that he is looking forward to his stint at English county cricket, saying, “My IPL experience has given me a lot of confidence. Picking the wickets of Yuvraj Singh and Glenn Maxwell is something I shall never forget.”

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There have been five Indian players who have played as Hull CCC’s in the last fifteen years. One prominent name is of India U-19 star Sarfaraz Khan who has also taken the IPL by storm with his wonderful batting performances.

These overseas stints became possible for Shivil and Sarfraz because of an international sporting exchange scheme called ‘Cricket without Boundaries’, founded by Dr Samir Pathak, who is from Hull and was a good cricketer himself.