The Melbourne Stars have made their first big move since the Big Bash League\u2019s contract embargo lifted last week, with Todd Murphy signing a one-year deal with the club.<\/p>\n
The Victorian off-spinner has spent the past five seasons playing for the Sydney Sixers, but will return home for KFC BBL|16.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m super excited to be back in Melbourne,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like getting to play at the MCG is always exciting, so to have that on the horizon this year is awesome and I\u2019m really keen to get started.<\/p>\n
\u201c[I\u2019ve] travelled a little bit over the last couple of years, so it’s nice to know that those couple of months will be at home.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his 30 Big Bash matches, Murphy has had an economy rate of just 6.73 per over, with a bowling average of 22.14.<\/p>\n
At just 25 years of age, Murphy has represented Australia in seven test matches and is a proven performer against the world\u2019s best batsmen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Murphy becomes the Stars\u2019 11th contracted player for BBL|16, with the club able to fill seven more positions before the start of the season.<\/p>\n
Melbourne Stars Contracted Players – BBL|16:<\/p>\n
Austin Anlezark, Hilton Cartwright, Sam Harper, Liam Hatcher, Campbell Kellaway, Glenn Maxwell, Todd Murphy, Tom Rogers, Peter Siddle, Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Swepson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Melbourne Stars have made their first big move since the Big Bash League\u2019s contract embargo lifted last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[260,603],"class_list":["post-87921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-melbourne","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}