TAS­MA­NIA–West In­dies T20 cap­tain Dar­ren Sam­my is to make his de­but in Aus­tralia's Big Bash League (BBL) this sum­mer af­ter sign­ing with the Ho­bart Hur­ri­canes.

"With play­ers like George Bai­ley, Alex Hales and Ben Dunk, there is a lot of ex­cit­ing tal­ent in the team al­ready," Sam­my said.

"I am re­al­ly look­ing for­ward to com­ing to Tas­ma­nia and tak­ing part in the Big Bash League"

Sam­my is ex­pect­ed to rep­re­sent Ho­bart in the first six match­es of the tour­na­ment be­fore join­ing West In­dies for their train­ing camp ahead of the 2015 World Cup.

The St Lu­cian all rounder is join­ing Eng­land's Hales as the two in­ter­na­tion­al sign­ings for the Hur­ri­canes.

"I have heard so much about coach [Damien] Wright, he seems like a West In­di­an, very cool and an amaz­ing fel­low," said Sam­my who was cap­tain of West In­dies in all for­mats un­til last year, when Dwayne Bra­vo was hand­ed con­trol of the ODI side, and De­nesh Ramdin be­came Test cap­tain ear­li­er this year.

"A few of my [West In­di­an] team-mates might al­so be play­ing in the Big Bash League so I'm look­ing for­ward to the con­test with them."

Sam­my's low­er-or­der strik­ing has made him a dan­ger­ous bats­man in the short­er for­mats and he has tak­en 99 T20 wick­ets at 25.18 with an econ­o­my rate of 7.37.

"He's a re­al­ly tal­ent­ed crick­eter who can do a lit­tle bit of every­thing," Wright said.

"He's a great leader as well and he's been cap­tain of the West In­dies for a num­ber of years now al­so cap­tain­ing the team for the T20 World Cup in 2012. Sam­my will give us that low­er-or­der hit­ting too, which is some­thing we didn't quite have last sea­son." (CMC)

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