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Luke Wright signs for Pune Warriors

ESPNcricinfo staff

March 8, 2012

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Luke Wright hit a career-best Twenty20 score of 117 off 60 balls, Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Stars, BBL, Hobart, January 9, 2012
Luke Wright made a big impression in the Big Bash League © Getty Images
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Luke Wright, the Sussex allrounder, has announced on twitter that he has signed for IPL franchise Pune Warriors. The deal means he will miss the start of the English season and could be unavailable for six County Championship matches.

Wright, 27, said on twitter: "I'm delighted to be going to the IPL with Pune Warriors. I'm disappointed to miss the start of the Sussex season but it's an amazing opportunity few could turn away."

His stock rose significantly when playing for Melbourne Stars in Australia's Big Bash League 2011-12 in which he scored the fastest hundred in the competition's history, off 44 balls against Hobart Hurricanes. He has scored over 2,000 runs in Twenty20 cricket with two centuries.

Wright has ambitions to win a place back in England's one-day team. He has played 46 ODIs and 30 T20s but his last cap came in England's T20 defeat against Sri Lanka at Bristol in June 2011. Last season Wright scored 341 runs in T20s for Sussex at 34.10.

Pune Warriors have now filled all their spots for overseas players, with Australia allrounders James Hopes and Steven Smith, and West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels also having signed ahead of the fifth IPL season. Warriors begin their IPL campaign against Mumbai on April 6 while Sussex open their season away to Surrey on April 5.

Edited by Alex Winter

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Posted by Karthic2228 on (March 11, 2012, 17:29 GMT)

Here we go DADA Fans we got te best team. 1.smith/ryder ,2.pandey,3.DADA (Captain),4.uthappa,5.Manhas/Mohnish mishra,6.Mathews,7.wright/hopes,8. Samuels,9. Rahulsharma,10.Dinda,11.Nehra Im this we have 8 batsman out of which 4 can slog . bowling 7 bwolers . The best part is all te foreign palyers atre in good form currently in their T20 leaugues hope they continue their form hre too. AND WE HAVE OUR PRINCE AS CAPTAIN WHO CAN MAKE IMPOSSIBLE AS POSSIBLE IN CRICKET I pray pwi wud make it to nxt yr champions league by winning IPL5. DADA ROCKS!!!!!

Posted by RandyOZ on (March 11, 2012, 6:22 GMT)

Luke Wright? Haha, poor Pune.

Posted by prdpatel on (March 11, 2012, 4:20 GMT)

My 11 Dada,ryder,pandey,uthapa,mohnish,m marsh,luke/hopes,karthik,nehra,a thomas,r sharma

Posted by Vishal_Surana on (March 10, 2012, 17:10 GMT)

Playing XI should be : Dada, G Smith, Uthappa, Ryder/Ferguson, Pandey, Mathews, Nehra, Karthik/Murtza, R Sharma, Dinda, Wright/S Smith/Hopes,

Posted by userttest on (March 9, 2012, 11:44 GMT)

Very Good Buy...) PWI needed a big hitter. My playing 11 will be 1.DADA 2.M.Pandey 3. Ryder 4.Samuals / Fercuson / LUKE 5.Uthappa 6.Mathews 7.Hopes 8.M.Karthik 9.R Sharma 10.Nehra 11.Dinda

Posted by class9ryan on (March 9, 2012, 2:28 GMT)

Pune Warriors its still uncertainty that Luke can play well in d subcontinent. Keep ur fingers crossed.......... But ALL D BEST LUKE

Posted by class9ryan on (March 9, 2012, 2:28 GMT)

Pune Warriors its still uncertainty that Luke can play well in d subcontinent. Keep ur fingers crossed..........

Posted by   on (March 8, 2012, 16:44 GMT)

Yeah !!!! Good for you ,Luke And PW !!!!!

Posted by   on (March 8, 2012, 15:21 GMT)

wow absolutely fantastic buy by pune warrriors i m so so so excited now my pune team will be as Luke wright Ganguly(Dada)

Robin uthappa

jesse Ryder

marlon Sameuls

angelo mathews

mohnish mishra/manish pandey

murali karthik

rahul sharma

ashok dinda

ashish nehra.

if uthapa not keeping propely or vnot wants to keep than replace mohnish or manish pandey by mahesh rawat. wow no one can stop us dada so lets shout guysss dad da da da ...

the huge sixxxx.... heaters

the offside...... god

the greatest ....cleverest captain

the prince of Calcutta

we love you dada best of luck we will always cheer you..we love you dada proud to be dada's fan....yooooo its time for pune to lift the ipl trophy.....i m crazzzy about it.......

Posted by   on (March 8, 2012, 15:02 GMT)

thats really a good pick indeed.

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