Australian all-rounder will join last season’s Division One title winners once his commitments in the Indian Premier League are completed
Australian all-rounder John ‘The Duke’ Hastings has joined reigning county champions Durham as their overseas signing for the forthcoming season.
The 28-year-old will join last season’s Division One title winners once his commitments in the Indian Premier League with the Chennai Superkings are completed.
Hastings, who is available to play all forms of the game during his time with the club, will arrive at Durham in time to take part in the 2014 NatWest T20 Blast competition and will stay for the remainder of the season.
First team coach Jon Lewis said: “We are excited about the arrival of John, he is skilful with the ball and can also contribute well with the bat.
“He will be a strong addition with the red and white ball and we look forward to welcoming him to Durham.”
A strong bowling all-rounder, Hastings is expected to bring experience with the ball and firepower to the lower order with the bat.
He has international experience, making his Australia debut in 2010 and has played 11 one day internationals, three international T20s and a Test match.
Despite coming through the New South Wales coaching system, Hastings moved to Victoria and made his first class debut in 2007.
He boasts some impressive stats in first class cricket with 119 wickets for Victoria at only 26.00 and has represented Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash.
Durham, meanwhile, will tomorrow fly out to Abu Dhabi ahead of the official curtain-raiser for the new English season.
The champions take on an MCC XI in Abu Dhabi over four days next week, starting on Sunday.
After arriving in the Middle East, Durham will have two days of warm weather training in preparation for the match against a strong MCC team which will include Indian superstar Virender Sehwag as well as England internationals Monty Panesar and Samit Patel.
Durham squad: Mark Stoneman, Keaton Jennings, Scott Borthwick, Michael Richardson, Gordon Muchall, Phil Mustard, Stuart Poynter, Gareth Breese, Mark Wood, Ryan Pringle, Usman Arshad, Jamie Harrison, Chris Rushworth, Graham Onions, Ryan Buckley and Paul Coughlin.
MCC squad: Virender Sehwag (India), Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka), Sam Robson (Middlesex & England Lions), Luis Reece (Lancs), Daniel Bell-Drummond (Kent), Samit Patel (Notts & England), Prassana Jayawardene (Sri Lanka), Ollie Rayner (Middlesex & England Lions), Andre Adams (Notts), Harry Gurney (Notts), Kyle Hogg (Lancs), Monty Panesar (Essex & England).
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