Glenn Maxwell, Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy head the listing of Australian luminaries who’ve been retained to play within the 2023 version of English cricket’s The Hundred competitors.
Maxwell, who performed 4 matches for the Lord’s-based London Spirit males’s group final 12 months, was named on Thursday as one among half-a-dozen Australian gamers who’ve been introduced again by their franchises.
Birmingham Phoenix’s Perry, Northern Superchargers’ Healy and Trent Rockets’ Alana King, who’re all in South Africa spearheading Australia’s T20 World Cup problem, will all function once more within the ladies’s 100-ball-a-side occasion in August.
Staying on in England after their county stints, paceman Kane Richardson may have one other spell with the Edgbaston-based Phoenix males’s outfit whereas allrounder Daniel Sams will head again to Nottingham with the Rockets.
The 34-year-old Maxwell, having recovered from breaking his leg in a freak accident at a good friend’s celebration late final 12 months, is ready to make up for misplaced time within the IPL and over a busy English summer time.
After his spell in India in April and May, he’ll play for the Birmingham Bears within the T20 Blast competitors between May and July earlier than returning to the Spirit in August.
He could also be extra famed for his unique batting however Maxwell additionally had the most effective financial system charge of any bowler in final 12 months’s second version of The Hundred.
Richardson was additionally an enormous success with the Rockets, his tally of 13 wickets being surpassed by solely three different bowlers.
There will not be so many Australian ladies collaborating in The Hundred this 12 months after a busy 12 months that includes the launch of the WPL in India.
But Perry, who hit the jackpot when Royal Challengers Bangalore shelled out $297,000 for her within the WPL public sale, will money in once more again at Edgbaston the place she was high scorer for the Phoenix final 12 months.
Australian vice-captain Healy confirmed as soon as once more in her player-of-the-match innings within the T20 World Cup victory over Sri Lanka on Thursday that she’s an amazing signing for the Leeds-based Superchargers, whereas spinner King had the most effective financial system charge of any bowler within the competitors final season.
Other main names retained for the competitors are England stars Jonny Bairstow, who’ll be a part of Australian Mike Hussey’s Welsh Fire squad in Cardiff, Ben Stokes (Northern Superchargers) and Jofra Archer (Southern Brave).
India’s Smriti Mandhana, the document purchase on the WPL public sale at $593,000, will function for Southampton-based Brave.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
