{"id":93185,"date":"2025-08-26T04:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/93185\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T04:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:44:07","slug":"the-hundred-2025-oval-invincibles-in-discussions-to-sign-adam-zampa-for-mens-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/93185\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred 2025: Oval Invincibles in discussions to sign Adam Zampa for men&#8217;s final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oval Invincibles have held discussions with Adam Zampa over the possibility of signing the Australia leg-spinner for Sunday&#8217;s Hundred final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two-time defending champions effectively qualified for the Lord&#8217;s showpiece by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cr74x7dyj2vo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beating London Spirit at The Oval on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They picked both Rashid Khan and fellow wrist-spinner Nathan Sowter throughout the first six matches of the tournament but Rashid has since left the squad for international duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Afghanistan international was not replaced, meaning his place in the squad remains open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zampa, 33, played for Invincibles in their title-winning seasons in 2023 and 2024 but turned out for Australia against South Africa in a one-day international in Queensland on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While nothing has been signed, Invincibles coach Tom Moody said Zampa was keen to travel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zampa played for Surrey in the T20 Blast earlier this year and their quarter-final against Northamptonshire takes place three days after the Hundred final on 3 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ideally we want Zamps,&#8221; Moody told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We just are working through that. He is keen to come back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is familiar with this group and Surrey as well, having played in the Blast.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oval Invincibles have held discussions with Adam Zampa over the possibility of signing the Australia leg-spinner for Sunday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-93185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}