Van Niekerk was re-signed by Oval Invincibles within the inaugural ladies’s draft for the Hundred on Thursday night, and her cope with Sunrisers – the regional hub based mostly round London and the East – means she will probably be in England for almost all of the summer time.
She was controversially ignored of South Africa’s squad for the latest T20 World Cup on residence soil after failing to satisfy a two-kilometre time trial benchmark, having struggled with accidents over the earlier three years, and confirmed her retirement from worldwide cricket final week.
“I’m very excited to join up with my Sunrisers team-mates,” van Niekerk mentioned. “I look forward to this new chapter and contributing to the overall success of the team. [I am] so grateful for the backing and can’t wait to get on the field to start playing.”
Sunrisers have been the weakest of the eight English regional groups because the home system was revamped forward of the 2020 season. They have solely received as soon as within the Charlotte Edwards Cup, the home T20 competitors, and have by no means received a sport within the 50-over Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.
“This is an extremely exciting time for Sunrisers, and having the ability to bring in Dané speaks volumes of the work that has been going on behind the scenes at this club,” Tennant mentioned. “We all know exactly what Dané is capable of, and the experience that she will bring to our group of players is invaluable.
“We made positive that the present squad have been conscious all through the entire course of, and Eva [Gray] and Mady [Villiers] have all the time spoken so extremely of her after spending a lot time collectively in the course of the Hundred. She’s each a superb participant and a superb particular person, and we will not wait to welcome her into the Sunrisers household.”
Van Niekerk’s cope with Sunrisers runs till the tip of July, when she’s going to hyperlink up with the Invincibles squad forward of their opening Hundred fixture on August 2.
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