Big Bash champions Perth Scorchers add Adam Lyth and prolific run getter Stevie Eskinazi to squad
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Big Bash League champions Perth Scorchers add Yorkshire’s Adam Lyth and Middlesex’s prolific white ball runner Stevie Eskinazi to their squad ahead of T20 competition which begins next week.
- Perth Scorchers have now added 13 foreign English-qualified players to the squad
- The Big Bash Champions terminated Laurie Evans’ contract due to a positive drug test
- Phil Salt was also dropped from the squad as a result of a shoulder injury.
- Lyth and Eskinazi will join Tymal Mills in Australia’s most successful T20 squad
Perth Scorchers have added Yorkshire batsman Adam Lyth and prolific Middlesex white ball runner Stevie Eskinazi to their Big Bash League squad.
The double recruiting brings to 13 the number of qualified foreign players in England in this winter’s competition, which begins on Tuesday.
Reigning champions Perth recently terminated the contract of Laurie Evans, the player in last season’s final, following a positive drug test for traces of a banned substance, while Phil Salt withdrew with a shoulder injury.
Yorkshire batsman Adam Lyth will join the Perth Scorchers ahead of the Big Bash League from Tuesday.
Middlesex’s prolific white ball runner Stevie Eskinazi has also been recruited by the BBL champions.
Former England international Lyth, 35, appears in the BBL for the first time, alongside Eskinazi, who grew up in Western Australia before joining England.
Eskinazi, who has averaged 40 in the Vitality Blast over the past three seasons, scored four hundred in the 2022 Royal London Cup after being shockingly overlooked in the Hundred.
The pair join Sussex fast bowler Tymal Mills in Australia’s most successful T20 squad.