Australia leg-spinner Adam Zampa has joined Surrey for the club’s next four T20 Blast games. And should they advance to the knockout phase, Zampa will be available for the quarter-finals and Finals Day later in the season. The 33-year-old is the Aussies’ all-time leading wicket taker in T20 internationals with 117 and is also a...
Warwickshire have signed Australian off-spinner Corey Rocchiccioli to cover the next four County Championship matches. The 27-year-old has been brought in to use his experience of playing with the Kookaburra ball for the fixtures against Somerset and Sussex this month and Worcestershire and Essex in July. The Kookaburra ball is used in Australia and has...
Gloucestershire have signed Australia off-spinner Todd Murphy for their next four County Championship matches. The 24-year-old will arrive in time for the Second Division game against Derbyshire at Bristol on 22 June, and finish with the meeting with Middlesex at the Cheltenham Cricket Festival at the end of July. This will be Murphy’s first experience...
England spinner Sophie Ecclestone will take a break from domestic cricket as she manages a quad injury and to “prioritise her wellbeing”. Ecclestone, 26, was left out of England’s first squad under new coach Charlotte Edwards because she was recovering from a knee injury. She played for the UP Warriorz in India’s Women’s Premier League...
Bashir signed a two-year deal with Somerset in 2023, and was then picked for England’s tour of India the following year after playing only six first-class matches. Despite a modest domestic record – Bashir’s average in the County Championship is 84 – he has thrived for his country under Stokes’ leadership. He was man of...
Hartley, 26, could make his England return this week in the one-day international series against West Indies, which starts on Thursday at Edgbaston. He has had a decent start to the season with Lancashire but has still been putting in the hours amid the perennials. “It is a 5am or 5:30am wake-up, walk the dogs,...
Lancashire have signed Australia spinner Alana King on a multi-format contract. The 29-year-old will feature for Lancashire Thunder in the Women’s T20 Blast as well as Lancashire’s matches in the One-Day Cup. A 50-over World Cup winner in 2022, King has also won the Ashes on three occasions as well as gold at the 2022...
Ecclestone’s refusal to do an interview was prior to the first T20, at which point England were already 6-0 down in the multi-format points-based series. Clare Connor, the managing director of England women’s cricket, has since described the episode as “an unfortunate incident that won’t happen again”. Ecclestone and Hartley have not spoken since. Asked...
Glamorgan have signed England spinner Shoaib Bashir on a short-term loan from Somerset. Bashir, 21, is joining for three County Championship games as cover for Mason Crane, who will miss the opening month of the season because of a shoulder injury. Surrey-born off-spinner Bashir impressed after being a shock choice for England’s tour to India...
