Cricketing icon Ellyse Perry will play for Hampshire Hawks on this summer season’s Vitality Blast.
The Australian, extensively considered one of many best feminine cricketers of all time, will play for Hampshire this July after being confirmed as an abroad signing.
The 34-year-old all-rounder will likely be out there for six Vitality Blast fixtures in addition to two Metro Financial institution One Day Cup matches, whereas Perry will have the ability to play on Vitality Blast Finals Day, ought to Hampshire qualify.
“I’m really looking forward to joining the Hampshire team this summer,” Perry stated.
“The membership has been a frontrunner inside the ladies’s recreation for the final 10 years and I am excited to have the chance to affix the workforce at such an thrilling time for home cricket in England.
“There’s always a great atmosphere at Utilita Bowl and I can’t wait to walk out as part of the home team for the first time on Sunday July 6.”
Perry is the world’s top-ranked ladies’s all-rounder, boasting quite a few accolades, together with two-time ICC Ladies’s Cricketer of the 12 months, named ICC Participant of the Decade in 2020 and successful Australia’s Ladies’s Worldwide Cricketer of the 12 months on three events.
The youngest-ever cricketer, male or feminine, to signify Australia, Perry has been on the high of the sport for the most effective a part of 20 years and is likely one of the most adorned athletes on the planet.
Perry has gained the T20 World Cup on six events, is a two-time ODI World Cup winner, a Commonwealth Video games gold medallist, double Ladies’s Large Bash champion, gained 11 Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket League titles and is the undisputed Ladies’s Ashes champion as a five-time winner, the all-time main run scorer and wicket taker.
She is about to make her Hampshire debut at Chesterfield on July 4 towards The Blaze, earlier than making her Utilita Bowl debut for the Hawks towards Somerset on July 6.
The 2025 Vitality Blast begins on Friday Might 30 and concludes with the first-ever Vitality Blast Ladies’s Finals Day at The Kia Oval in London on July 27.
