Big Bash League stalwart Andrew Tye joins Melbourne Renegades after decade with Scorchers
After claiming the second-most wickets in BBL history during his decade-long Scorchers stint, Andrew Tye has made a surprise move to the Melbourne Renegades.
Big Bash League stalwart and former Australian international bowler Andrew Tye is set to join a third BBL club with the veteran seamer poised to sign with the Melbourne Renegades.
Tye, who turns 39 in December, had been on the hunt for a new BBL home after the expiration with his deal with the Perth Scorchers, where he had been a mainstay for more than a decade and a central pillar to the club’s success across the first decade and a half of the competition.
He is instead poised to join the Renegades as a replacement player, reuniting with long-time Scorchers and West Australian teammate Jason Behrendorff who signed with the Renegades early this year.
Spinning all-rounder Matt Spoors, also from the Scorchers, is another set to join the Renegades as a replacement player.
The Renegades have lost all-rounder Will Salzmann who needed surgery after tearing his hamstring off the bone playing for NSW in the Sheffield Shield, while they will also likely be without Nathan Lyon and Brendan Doggett for a significant stretch of the season because of their Test commitments.
Spinner Callum Stow has also been battling injury.
Only Sean Abbott has taken more BBL wickets than Tye, who played seven one-day internationals and 32 Twenty20 internationals for Australia between 2016 and 2021.
Tye had a brief stint with the Sydney Thunder before joining the Scorchers.
Meanwhile the Melbourne Stars have filled their final list spot with emerging Queensland paceman Tom Whitney.
Jono Merlo will also remain with the club.
World Cup-winning paceman Kane Richardson, who had been with the Renegades for eight years, has joined the Sydney Sixers.
Originally published as Big Bash League stalwart Andrew Tye joins Melbourne Renegades after decade with Scorchers
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