Shane Watson could be making a beeline for Hampshire now that his Test vocation is over.
Watson, who declared his retirement from Test cricket on Sunday, admitted to ESPNcricinfo he had held "general talks with the club's executive, Rod Bransgrove" however has yet to concur an arrangement.
Watson delighted in a fruitful stretch at the club in 2004 and 2005 - he was in the side that won the C&G Trophy at Lord's in 2005 - and has kept up a cozy association with Bransgrove. He has been connected with an arrival on a few events - he really marked for them in 2008, however did not play - but rather has been occupied with universal responsibilities. The news that his Test vocation is over would seem to have evacuated that deterrent.
"I completely adored my time playing at Hampshire and I'd love to play here once more," Watson said amid the ODI in Southampton a week ago.
It is comprehended that Watson is being lined up to play just white ball cricket for Hampshire, with another abroad player marked for Championship cricket.
Hampshire are hoping to fortify following a disillusioning year in the County Championship which has abandoned them battling to keep away from transfer from Division One. They have effectively reported the marking of left-arm swing bowler, Reece Topley, and are comprehended to be conversing with South African seamers Ryan McLaren and Kyle Abbott about joining the club.
McLaren, 32, who is as of now at the club as an abroad player, would be a Kolpak enlistment, while Abbott, who played T20 cricket for Hampshire in 2014 and was a continuous guest to the club this year amid a spell at Middlesex, has made it clear he would just sign as an abroad player.
"Those players are in our contemplations," Giles White, the Hampshire mentor, told ESPNcricinfo. "Be that as it may, nothing firm has been concurred."
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