{"id":4749,"date":"2022-11-03T11:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T05:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=254907"},"modified":"2022-11-03T11:17:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T05:47:27","slug":"big-bash-league-andre-russell-to-join-melbourne-renegades-for-2022-23-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/big-bash-league-andre-russell-to-join-melbourne-renegades-for-2022-23-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bash League: Andre Russell to join Melbourne Renegades for 2022-23 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andre Russell will participate in the BBL\u2019s 2022\u201323 season after joining the Melbourne Renegades as a temporary replacement for platinum signing Liam Livingstone. Russell previously participated in seven games with the Renegades during his first season in the BBL in 2014\u201315.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to be part of the Big Bash League again this summer,\u201d Russell said. \u201cI\u2019m excited to be back in red, and will be doing everything I can to help the Melbourne Renegades start the tournament with a bang.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe are thrilled to have Andre Russell returning to the Renegades this summer,\u201d Rosengarten said.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cAndre is one of the best T20 players in the world; he\u2019s a proven match-winner and exactly the type of player we need. He adds to our team in all three facets of the game \u2013 his ability to clear the boundary, take wickets, and make things happen in the field.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe had positive discussions with Andre throughout the draft process, and were always keen to try to get him back in red. With Liam\u2019s availability changing after the draft, there was an opportunity to add Andre to our group, and we jumped at it.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Melbourne Renegades squad<\/b>: Nic Maddinson (capt), Zak Evans, Aaron Finch, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sam Harper, Marcus Harris, Mackenzie Harvey, Akeal Hosein (overseas), Ruwantha Kellapotha (overseas), Liam Livingstone (overseas), Shaun Marsh, Jack Prestwidge, Kane Richardson, Corey Rocchiccioli, Tom Rogers, Andre Russell (overseas), Will Sutherland, Mujeeb Ur Rahman (overseas), Jon Wells<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andre Russell will participate in the BBL\u2019s 2022\u201323 season after joining the Melbourne Renegades as a temporary replacement for platinum\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[621,1037,1209,1178],"class_list":["post-4749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-andre-russell","tag-bbl","tag-big-bash-league","tag-melbourne-renegades"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}