{"id":2392,"date":"2021-03-18T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=99367"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:17:02","slug":"australias-ellyse-perry-to-join-birmingham-phoenix-for-inaugural-1st-edition-of-the-hundred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/australias-ellyse-perry-to-join-birmingham-phoenix-for-inaugural-1st-edition-of-the-hundred\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Ellyse Perry to join Birmingham Phoenix for inaugural 1st edition of \u201cThe Hundred\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian all-rounder <strong>Ellyse Perry<\/strong> has signed with <strong>Birmingham Phoenix<\/strong> for the inaugural edition of \u201cThe Hundred\u201d. Alongside Perry, Ashleigh Gardner would be her compatriot and New Zealand\u2019s Sophie Devine among others. In addition to that Perry would also reunite with Coach Ben Sawyer who is responsible for Sydney Sixers in the Women\u2019s Big Bash League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to come over to the UK and get involved in The Hundred this summer,\u201d Perry said. \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to see how it\u2019s put women\u2019s cricket in the spotlight and attracted so many of the world\u2019s top players to come and play in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith 100 balls per side it\u2019s going to be really exciting to play in, and I\u2019m looking forward to helping introduce a new generation to cricket and hopefully inspiring them to pick up a bat and ball themselves.\u201d<br \/>\nPerry who received the ICC Women\u2019s Player of the Decade award was not among the players unveiled three weeks ago at The Hundred event, as the given players are being signed by the eight teams on an individual basis with no equivalent draft event like the men\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEllyse\u2019s participation in The Hundred shows that the competition continues to attract the best players from around the world,\u201d Beth Barrett-Wild, Head of The Hundred Women\u2019s Competition said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy showcasing the most talented female cricketers on the planet. On such a big stage, alongside the men\u2019s, we have an opportunity to continue to normalize cricket as a sport for women and girls. As much as it is for men and boys. I truly believe that \u201cThe Hundred\u201d will be a game changer for women\u2019s sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cThe Hundred\u201d women\u2019s tournament will kickstart with Oval Invisibles going up against Manchester Originals in a standalone women\u2019s match on 21st July, a day before the men\u2019s teams meet. After those first two games, both men\u2019s and women\u2019s sides would play at the same venue on the same date with the finals scheduled at Lord\u2019s on 21st August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry has signed with Birmingham Phoenix for the inaugural edition of \u201cThe Hundred\u201d. Alongside Perry, Ashleigh Gardner would be her compatriot and New Zealand\u2019s Sophie Devine among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":25480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1602,1600,1603,1152,1601],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ashleigh-gardner","tag-ellyse-perry","tag-manchester-originals","tag-sydney-sixers","tag-the-hundred"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}