Hampshire have signed India white-ball batter Tilak Varma on a short-term deal for four County Championship matches.
Varma has made an outstanding start to his international T20 career, hitting 749 runs in 25 games with an average of 49.93 and a strike rate of 155.
The 22-year-old left-hander has two centuries and three half-centuries in the format and has scored nearly 1,500 runs in 54 innings in the Indian Premier League.
He will be available from 22 June until 1 August for games at Essex, at home to Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire and the return against the Pears at New Road at the end of July.
Varma averages 50 in first-class cricket with five hundreds and four half-centuries from 18 matches.
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