Todd Murphy: Gloucestershire sign Australia spinner for four games

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 of county cricket but he has played seven Test matches for Australia, including taking six wickets in the fifth Ashes Test against England at The Oval in 2023.

“I am really pleased to have signed with Gloucestershire,” Murphy told the club website., external

“I’ve always wanted to play county cricket in England, and I am thankful that Gloucestershire have given me this opportunity.”