Australia star Ellyse Perry ‘excited’ to join Hampshire for Women’s T20 Blast

• Perry will play at least six games in new tournament
• Signing is coup for English domestic women’s cricket

Hampshire have signed the Australia all-rounder Ellyse Perry, in a major coup for the restructure of the English women’s domestic game.

Perry, the all-time leading run-scorer and wicket-taker in the Women’s Ashes, has been at the forefront of eight Australia World Cup wins – two in ODIs and six in Twenty20 – and was named the International Cricket Council’s women’s player of the decade in 2020.

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