DAVID BEDINGHAM AND CRAIG OVERTON. (Photo Source: X(Twitter)
England fast bowler Craig Overton will be hoping for a fresh start at back-to-back SA20 champions after being re-signed for Season 3. Overton was signed as a Wildcard for Season 2 but was forced to miss the entire competition due to injury. The lanky fast bowler is an experienced T20 campaigner having been part of Somerset’s successful T20 Blast championship-winning squad last season.
He is also in good form, having recently delivered a Player of the Match performance with the ball for the Southern Brave, in England’s Hundred competition. Overton joins returnee Roelof van der Merwe and compatriot Zak Crawley on the Sunrisers Eastern Cape’s list of pre-signed players.
OVERTON STATS AND FACTS
T20s: 102 | Wickets: 106 | Best bowling: 4/25 | Economy rate: 8.56 | Average: 26.21 | Runs: 467| Strike rate: 127.59 | Highest score: 42
Sunrisers Eastern Cape have boosted their batting department with the arrival of Proteas batter David Bedingham for SA20 Season 3.
Bedingham, who will take up Sunrisers’ Wildcard slot, has been in superb form in the English County Championship for Durham, where he is the competition’s leading run-scorer with 926 runs at an average of 71.23. The 30-year-old has also been striking it sweetly in the shortest form with 225 runs at an average of 37.50 and an incredible strike rate of 163.04 in the T20 Blast.
The former Wynberg Boys’ High School prodigy is currently in the Caribbean where he is preparing with the Proteas Test squad to face the West Indies in a two-match series. He has struck a century and two half-centuries to average 49.57 in his four Tests thus far.
Bedingham will also provide the Sunrisers Eastern Cape with a backup wicket-keeping option to Tristan Stubbs. Bedingham and Overton join Roelof van der Merwe and Zak Crawley on the Sunrisers Eastern Cape’s list of pre-signed players. The Sunrisers Eastern Cape will be hoping to achieve an unprecedented hat-trick of SA20 titles in Season 3.
BEDINGHAM STATS & FACTS
T20s: 68 | Runs: 1375 | Strike rate: 135.06 | 50s: 8 | Highest score: 78