Corey Rocchiccioli has signed on with what will be his fourth Big Bash League club, with the star WA off-spinner joining Sydney Sixers.<\/p>\n
The West Australian understands Rocchiccioli, who was signed by Perth Scorchers as a replacement player last summer but was not called upon to play a game, has agreed to a deal with the Sixers.<\/p>\n
He shapes as a replacement for his fellow off-spinner and rival to be Nathan Lyon\u2019s Test understudy Todd Murphy, who has left the Sixers to join Melbourne Stars.<\/p>\n
Rocchiccioli\u2019s BBL debut came with Melbourne Renegades in the 2022\/23 season before he made a cross-town move to the Stars the following year, splitting five games between the two clubs.<\/p>\n
The Scorchers signed him as a replacement player last summer but then overlooked him in favour of untried leg-spinner Luke Holt, who was brought in using the same mechanism and played three games as the club went on to claim their sixth title.<\/p>\n
For the first part in a decade, the Scorchers will have two frontline spinners in their 18-player squad in their upcoming campaign, with The West Australian revealing last month they had signed England leg-spinner Calvin Harrison as a potential partner to stalwart Ashton Agar.<\/p>\n
Rocchiccioli has established himself as the leading spinner on the domestic red-ball circuit, with no slow bowler having prized more Sheffield Shield wickets since his debut in the competition in 2021.<\/p>\n
While now a fixture in WA\u2019s red-ball side, his limited-overs opportunities have been more infrequent, with the 28-year-old having only three One-Day Cup appearances to his credit.<\/p>\n
Rocchiccioli is currently playing on an Australia A tour of India, backing up four wickets in the first two-day game with one more in the 51 overs his side bowled before stumps on the second day yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corey Rocchiccioli has signed on with what will be his fourth Big Bash League club, with the star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,22249,740,588,85],"class_list":["post-911787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-big-bash-league","tag-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}