County gig for Black Cap

Black Caps star Colin de Grandhomme has scored an English county stint with Hampshire. The big allrounder will play the second half of the T20 Blast. He will join Hampshire after the World Test Championship final against India in England on June 18-22. De Grandhomme is on the comeback from ankle surgery. De Grandhomme played for the Birmingham Bears in 2017 and 2018. He bolsters the New Zealand presence in the Blast with Glenn Phillips (Gloucestershire), James Neesham (Essex), Finn Allen (Lancashire) and Lockie Ferguson (Yorkshire) also signed up.