Delano Potgieter joins Hampshire for County Championship matches and Vitality Blast

South African all-rounder Delano Potgieter will join Hampshire for their next three Rothesay County Championship matches and the Vitality Blast.

The 29-year-old will join up with tomorrow’s squad to face Nottinghamshire and will remain at the club in the Vitality Blast with Tristan Stubbs due to arrive after the conclusion of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

He will also stay with the squad for Hampshire’s County Championship matches against Surrey and Sussex in June.

Potgieter has a strong domestic record in South Africa.

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Strong record

He has played 50 First-Class matches and taken 128 wickets at an average of 23 and scored over 2,500 runs with five centuries and nine fifties, at an average of 44.20.

In the recent CSA 4-Day Series, where Potgieter was coached by Hampshire’s head coach Russell Domingo and won the competition with Gauteng, he scored 606 runs – the second-most for his team, at an average of 101 – and took ten wickets in seven matches.

In T20 cricket, he has taken 49 wickets in 97 matches and scored 1,329 runs.

Across four years in the SA20, he scored 280 runs at a strike rate of 140 and claimed nine wickets, including best figures of 5/10 against three-time champions Sunrisers Eastern Cape, coached by former Hampshire head coach Adi Birrell.

His first assignment for the club will be against the reigning County champions on Friday.

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