Cricketing icon Ellyse Perry will play for Hampshire Hawks on this summer time’s Vitality Blast.

The Australian, extensively thought to be one of many best feminine cricketers of all time, will play for Hampshire this July after being confirmed as an abroad signing.

The 34-year-old all-rounder will probably be out there for six Vitality Blast fixtures in addition to two Metro Financial institution One Day Cup matches, whereas Perry will have the ability to play on Vitality Blast Finals Day, ought to Hampshire qualify.

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“I am actually wanting ahead to becoming a member of the Hampshire crew this summer time,” Perry mentioned.

“The membership has been a pacesetter throughout the girls’s recreation for the final 10 years and I am excited to have the chance to hitch the crew at such an thrilling time for home cricket in England.

“There’s at all times an amazing ambiance at Utilita Bowl and I am unable to wait to stroll out as a part of the house crew for the primary time on Sunday July 6.”

Perry is the world’s top-ranked girls’s all-rounder, boasting quite a few accolades, together with two-time ICC Girls’s Cricketer of the 12 months, named ICC Participant of the Decade in 2020 and successful Australia’s Girls’s Worldwide Cricketer of the 12 months on three events.

The youngest-ever cricketer, male or feminine, to signify Australia, Perry has been on the high of the sport for the very best a part of 20 years and is without doubt one of the most adorned athletes on the planet.

Perry has received the T20 World Cup on six events, is a two-time ODI World Cup winner, a Commonwealth Video games gold medallist, double Girls’s Massive Bash champion, received 11 Girls’s Nationwide Cricket League titles and is the undisputed Girls’s Ashes champion as a five-time winner, the all-time main run scorer and wicket taker.

She is about to make her Hampshire debut at Chesterfield on July 4 towards The Blaze, earlier than making her Utilita Bowl debut for the Hawks towards Somerset on July 6.

The 2025 Vitality Blast begins on Friday Might 30 and concludes with the first-ever Vitality Blast Girls’s Finals Day at The Kia Oval in London on July 27.