World cricketing icon Ellyse Perry will play for Hampshire Hawks on this summer season’s Vitality Blast.
The Australian, extensively thought to be one of many biggest feminine cricketers of all time, will play for Hampshire this July in what’s seen as a major second in ladies’s home cricket within the nation.
The all-rounder shall be obtainable for six Vitality Blast fixtures in addition to two Metro Financial institution One Day Cup matches. Ought to Hampshire qualify for the Vitality Blast Finals Day, Perry shall be obtainable to play.
Perry is the world’s top-ranked ladies’s all-rounder, boasting quite a few accolades, together with two-time ICC Girls’s Cricketer of the Yr, named ICC Participant of the Decade in 2020 and successful Australia’s Girls’s Worldwide Cricketer of the Yr on three events.
The youngest ever cricketer, male or feminine, to symbolize Australia, Perry has been on the prime of the sport for one of the best a part of twenty years and is among the most embellished athletes on the planet.
The 34-year-old has gained the T20 World Cup on six events, is a two-time ODI World Cup winner, Commonwealth Video games gold medallist, double Girls’s Massive Bash champion, gained 11 Girls’s Nationwide Cricket League titles and is the undisputed Girls’s Ashes champion as a five-time winner, the all-time main run scorer and wicket taker.
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Ellyse Perry
Ellyse Perry mentioned: “I’m actually wanting ahead to becoming a member of the Hampshire team this summer season. The Club has been a frontrunner inside the ladies’s recreation for the final ten years and I’m excited to have the chance be part of the workforce at such an thrilling time for home cricket in England.”
“There’s at all times a fantastic ambiance at Utilita Bowl and I can’t wait to stroll out as a part of the house workforce for the primary time on Sunday 6 July.”
Paul Prichard, Hampshire Cricket Girls’s Head Coach added: “Ellyse is among the world’s finest cricketers and we’re wanting ahead to welcoming her to the workforce this summer season. Her report throughout all codecs speaks for itself and she’s going to add an amazing quantity of worth on and off the pitch.
“Our group of younger gamers will be taught a lot from Ellyse and I do know our followers shall be extremely excited to see her in a Hawks shirt.”
Perry is about to make her Hampshire debut at Chesterfield on Friday 4 July in opposition to The Blaze, earlier than making her Utilita Bowl debut for the Hawks in opposition to Somerset on Sunday 6 July.
There shall be six additional alternatives to observe Ellyse Perry in Hampshire colors in the course of the month, with 4 residence matches and two away video games.