Sam Northeast indicators three-year Glamorgan deal

England Lions batter fell out with Hampshire throughout summer time earlier than mortgage spells with Yorkshire and Notts

Sam Northeast has signed a three-year contract with Glamorgan, finishing the 31-year-old batter’s protracted departure from Hampshire.

Northeast signed a brand new contract with Hampshire at the beginning of the season however fell out with the membership’s control and therefore launched into mortgage spells with Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire as a part of efforts to discover a new county. Probabilities have been restricted, on the other hand, and he most effective controlled one half-century in six innings (5 top quality, one T20) between July and September.

Described via Mark Wallace, Glamorgan’s director of cricket, as “one of the crucial best gamers within the county recreation”, Northeast’s arrival represents one thing of a coup. Glamorgan completed backside of Department Two within the County Championship, profitable simply two four-day fixtures all season, however did declare their first silverware since 2004 via profitable the Royal London Cup.

“Sam is among the best gamers within the county recreation and after we discovered he was once to be had we did the entirety shall we to convey him to Wales,” Wallace mentioned. “Signing Sam is incredible information for everybody related the membership and to draw a participant of his high quality is a great signal of the course the membership is heading in.

“He has an excellent document throughout all 3 codecs and his versatility manner he can bat in plenty of other positions, whilst his revel in will convey so much to the converting room and lend a hand broaden our more youthful gamers.”

Northeast has been probably the most constant run-scorers in county cricket since coming via with Kent greater than a decade in the past, even though complete England honours have persevered to elude him. He was once made membership captain at Kent in 2015 earlier than shifting to Hampshire forward of the 2018 season in an try to press his global ambitions.

At Hampshire, Northeast accumulated a Royal London Cup winner’s medal, in addition to captaining the membership for prolonged classes throughout 2019 and 2020 within the absence of James Vince. He scored six top quality masses, averaging 36.92, however has been not able so as to add to a handful of Lions appearances made at the 2017-18 excursion of the Caribbean.

“I am extraordinarily excited for the problem forward at Glamorgan,” he mentioned. “Subsequent 12 months is the easiest time to construct at the Royal London Cup luck the membership accomplished this summer time.

“I nonetheless have numerous ambition within the recreation and I imagine Glamorgan percentage that with me. Chatting with Mark Wallace and Matt Maynard, I knew this was once the proper position for me to dedicate my long term to. I’m actually taking a look ahead to the following couple of years and the luck we will be able to have at the cricket pitch.”