Marcus Stoinis re-signs with Melbourne Stars for three more seasons

Australia allrounder Marcus Stoinis will remain at Melbourne Stars in the BBL after signing a three-year contract extension that will take him through until the end of BBL16 in 2026-27.

Stars had several players coming out of contract with Stoinis being the biggest name among them and there had been interest from other clubs to lure him elsewhere, including Perth Scorchers given he is based in Perth and plays his domestic cricket for Western Australia.

Stoinis started his BBL career at Scorchers playing three games for them in 2012-13 before moving to Stars the following season and has played 98 games since. He will become the second Stars player to play 100 games for the club next season after Glenn Maxwell played his 100th last season.

Stoinis also looms as a potential captain of the club after Maxwell stood down from the role at the end of last season.

The allrounder has been named in Australia's T20I squad for the upcoming West Indies series and is hopeful to be part of the T20 World Cup squad. But after being left out of the ODI squad he revealed that he will be playing more T20 franchise cricket in the next couple of years and appears unlikely to get another Cricket Australia central contract next season.

He is currently playing in the SA20 for Durban's Super Giants, who are owned by his IPL franchise Lucknow Super Giants. He also played in the inaugural Major League Cricket tournament in the US last year for San Francisco Unicorns, a franchise run administratively by representatives from Cricket Victoria, who also oversee the Stars.