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

Ellyse Perry will play for Hampshire Hawks in the Women’s T20 Blast before featuring in the Hundred with Birmingham Phoenix. Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images for Cricket Australia

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.