Hampshire have signed Australia all-rounder Amanda-Jade Wellington for the whole lot of the 2026 season.
The 28-year-old leg spinner returns to the Utilita Bowl after turning out for Southern Courageous in The Hundred in 2021 and 2022.
Wellington spent final season at Somerset and was the workforce’s main wicket-taker within the One-Day Cup with 19 wickets, and in addition scored 282 runs within the competitors.
She has 23 caps for Australia since making her debut in opposition to South Africa in 2016, and has gone on to take 30 wickets in complete throughout all three codecs.
Wellington has taken the second-highest variety of wickets (52) within the Girls’s Hundred since its inception in 2021, turning out for Oval Invincibles final season, and is at present showing for Adelaide Strikers within the Girls’s Huge Bash in her residence nation.
“I am actually excited to hitch Hampshire for the upcoming season,” she instructed the membership website., external
“I had a good time at Utilita Bowl in my two years at Southern Courageous and I stay up for making new recollections which can hopefully end in trophies come the top of the summer time.”
Hampshire director of ladies’s cricket Adam Carty stated: “She’s a pal of the membership and a vastly skilled cricketer, who boasts a high-quality document with bat and ball in England having featured successfully in The Hundred.”
