Stars and Renegades complete Zampa-Harper BBL trade

Renegades have been ready to commerce Harper, who has been their wicketkeeper since their title-winning season in 2018-19. He had been an inconsistent contributor with the bat having been shuffled round varied positions in Renegades’ top-order however he was coming off one his higher BBL seasons final 12 months making three half-centuries in 12 innings, hanging at 141.17.

“Making a cross-town transfer is all the time going to lift some curiosity, it was a tough resolution, however I felt prefer it was the correct time of my profession to make a transfer,” Zampa stated. “One of many issues that basically attracted me to the Renegades was the truth that two of my finest mates play for them in Kane Richardson and Nic Maddinson, it isn’t usually that you simply get to my age and also you get that chance to play together with your two finest mates.

“The Renegades have been a fairly pure match for me, in addition to having shut mates within the squad and I actually get pleasure from my time in Melbourne over summer time and love enjoying at Marvel Stadium.

“The way in which that they have been increase the listing has been fairly thrilling, there is a actually good mix of expertise with some proficient younger gamers – hopefully I can play a component of their progress too.

“I am certain the transfer will add a bit of bit extra spice to the Melbourne Derby, we had two fairly good video games final 12 months and I am certain it will be the identical once more with a little bit of participant motion.”

“We’re thrilled to have the ability to safe the providers of Sam, who’s an excellent individual and we’re trying ahead to seeing him behind the stumps in BBL13,” common supervisor Blair Crouch stated.

“Final 12 months Sam additionally confirmed he’s greater than succesful with the bat and was the Renegades second highest run scorer behind Aaron Finch.

“This commerce has allowed the membership to signal a variety of high quality gamers, as we noticed with Scott Boland final week and we’re trying ahead to saying extra of these signings within the coming weeks.”