AJ Tye, recent from profitable his fourth BBL crown with Perth Scorchers, has been hailed as an “amazing” addition to Northamptonshire’s bid to scoop English cricket’s equal title, the T20 Blast.
Perth’s cult determine has been snapped up for county obligation on the age of 36 by Northants, who imagine that, alongside together with his fellow globe-trotting Australian thirty-something Chris Lynn, demise bowler Tye can convey a “world-class” enhance to their bid.
The knuckle-ball maestro Tye had a superb marketing campaign with Durham in final season’s competitors with 21 wickets in his 10 matches and he is picked up 67 Blast wickets in whole in 48 matches, having additionally thrived with Gloucestershire.
Now Northants assume they’re on to a winner after the late-starting Tye, who within the BBL last even topped Rashid Khan by grew to become the quickest man to 300 T20 wickets, opted to hitch his 32-year-old Australian worldwide colleague Lynn in a push for the Steelbacks’ first Blast triumph in seven years.
Captain Josh Cobb mentioned that the pair, together with the returning England worldwide David Willey, would give the workforce a “world-class” core “with Lynny at the top of the order and AJ now with the ball”.
“AJ’s got a fantastic record in T20 cricket and we were looking for someone to come in and bring real experience to the attack, someone that can bowl the tough overs in the latter part of the innings and be a banker for us at the death,” Cobb mentioned.
Head coach John Sadler added: “To get AJ on board is really pleasing, he’s an amazing addition and gives our team a great balance.”
Tye, capped 32 instances for Australia in T20s in addition to seven instances in ODIs, mentioned: “I’m very excited to be joining Northamptonshire for the Blast. They’re a good team that’s had success in the competition in the past so I’ll be hoping that we can recreate that success this year.
“I’m trying ahead to becoming a member of Lynny, it is at all times higher to have him in your workforce than to strive taking part in in opposition to him.”
Tye’s signing comes a few days after Essex introduced that one other Australian stalwart, 30-year-old allrounder Daniel Sams, was re-joining the county for the 2023 Blast.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
