{"id":596632,"date":"2026-09-11T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596632\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:38:09","slug":"black-cap-signs-three-year-bbl-deal-reportedly-most-expensive-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596632\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Cap signs three-year BBL deal, reportedly most expensive ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Caps opener Finn Allen has reportedly become the most expensive player in the history of Australian T20 cricket after he signed a three-year contract with a Big Bash League team.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old, who has moved from the Perth Scorchers, signed a contract reportedly worth NZ$740,000 with the Melbourne Stars, joining Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis as the side chases a maiden BBL championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Stars are a powerhouse team in this competition, so it&#8217;s going to be a lot of fun playing for them,&#8221; Allen said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve already got a huge fanbase and they&#8217;re only getting bigger, and I can&#8217;t wait to be a part of that. I think all cricketers love playing at the MCG, so to be able to call that my home ground now is really exciting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Allen comes off a red-hot 2025\/26 season, in which he was the BBL&#8217;s leading scorer with 466 runs and a record 38 sixes \u2014 numbers that put him among the most feared top-order batters in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>He carried that form into international cricket too \u2014 with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/03\/05\/good-fun-finn-allen-on-his-record-breaking-demolition-of-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">record-breaking century against South Africa<\/a> helped fire the Black Caps into the Twenty20 World Cup final in India.<\/p>\n<p>Allen&#8217;s countrymen are also on the move over the ditch: Tim Seifert has a one-year contract from the Melbourne Renegades to the Sydney Sixers and Mark Chapman is expected to head to the Adelaide Strikers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black Caps opener Finn Allen has reportedly become the most expensive player in the history of Australian T20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,6429,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-596632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-black-caps","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}