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| One Day name | Hampshire | |||
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| Twenty20 name | Hampshire Hawks[1] | |||
| Personnel | ||||
| Captain | Ben Brown | |||
| One Day captain | Nick Gubbins (LA) James Vince (T20) | |||
| Coach | TBA | |||
| Overseas player | Kyle Abbott | |||
| Team information | ||||
| Colours | ||||
| Founded | 1863 | |||
| Home ground | Utilita Bowl | |||
| Capacity | 15,000 | |||
| History | ||||
| First-class debut | Sussex in 1864 at Antelope Ground, Southampton | |||
| Championship wins | 2 | |||
| Sunday/National League/CB40/YB40 wins | 3 | |||
| Friends Provident Trophy/RLODC wins | 5 | |||
| T20/FLT20/NT20B wins | 3 | |||
| B&H Cup wins | 2 | |||
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Hampshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteenfirst-classcounty clubs within the domesticcricket structure ofEngland andWales. It represents thehistoric county ofHampshire. Hampshire teams formed by earlier organisations, principally theHambledon Club, always had first-class status and the same applied to the county club when it was founded in 1863. Because of poor performances for several seasons until 1885, Hampshire then lost its status for nine seasons until it was invited into theCounty Championship in 1895, since when the team have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.[2] Hampshire originally played at theAntelope Ground,Southampton until 1885 when they relocated to theCounty Ground, Southampton until 2000, before moving to the purpose-builtRose Bowl inWest End, which is in the Borough ofEastleigh on the north east outskirts of Southampton. The club has twice won the County Championship, in the1961 and1973 seasons.
Hampshire played their firstone-day match in the1963 Gillette Cup, but did not win their first one-day silverware until 1975 when they won theSunday League which it won twice more, in 1978 and 1986. It has twice won theBenson & Hedges Cup, in 1988 and 1992; theNatwest Trophy in 1991; theCheltenham & Gloucester Trophy once in 2005 and theFriends Provident Trophy once in 2009. Having first playedTwenty20 cricket in 2003, Hampshire won theFriends Provident t20 in 2010. The County Championship was restructured in 2000, and at the end of the 2002 Hampshire was relegated for the first time. The club remained in the second division for three seasons and since 2004 had competed in the top tier. However, the club was relegated once more in 2011. The club won both theFriends Life t20 andECB 40 in 2012, but it wasn't until 2014 before they were promoted to the first division again. They narrowly avoided relegation in 2015 before being relegated again in 2016, only to be reprieved afterDurham were relegated after taking ECB sanctions to secure their future. In 2018 the club won theRoyal London One-Day Cup and in 2022 won their third t20 tournament when they secured theT20 Blast. Subject to ratification by theEngland and Wales Cricket Board, in 2024 a £120 million deal was agreed to sell the club toIndian Premier League franchiseDelhi Capitals, including a 51% stake in theHundred teamSouthern Brave.[3]
Phil Mead is the club's leading run-scorer with 48,892 runs in 700 matches for Hampshire between 1905 and 1936. Fast bowlerDerek Shackleton took 2,669 wickets in 583 first-class matches between 1948 and 1969 which remains a club record.Alec Kennedy, whose career lasted from 1907 to 1936, was the first player to score 10,000 runs and take 1,000 wickets for Hampshire.Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie was both Hampshire's last amateur captain and first professional captain.
A poem written inLatin by Robert Matthew in 1647 contains a probable reference to cricket being played by pupils ofWinchester College on nearbySt. Catherine's Hill. If authentic, this is the earliest known mention of cricket in Hampshire. But, with the sport having originated in Saxon or Norman times on theWeald, it is likely to have reached what is now modern Hampshire long before 1647. In 1680, lines written in an old Bible invite "All you that do delight in Cricket, come to Marden, pitch your wickets".Marden is inSussex, north ofChichester, and close toHambledon, which is just across the county boundary in Hampshire. Hampshire is used in a team name for the first time in August 1729, when a combined Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex XI played againstKent.
The origin of the legendaryHambledon Club is lost. There remains no definite knowledge of Hambledon cricket before 1756, when its team had gained sufficient repute to be capable of attempting three matches againstDartford, itself a famous club since the 1720s if not earlier. Hambledon had presumably earned recognition as the best parish team in Hampshire, but no reports of their local matches have been found. We do not know when the Hambledon Club was founded and it seems likely that some kind of parish organisation was operating in 1756, although there may well have been a patron involved. The Sussex v Hampshire match in June 1766 is the earliest reference to Hampshire as an individual county team. Whether the Hambledon Club was involved is unrecorded but presumably it was. Some historians believe it was at about this time that the club, as distinct from a parish organisation, was founded. The Hambledon Club was in many respects a Hampshire county club for it organised Hampshire matches, although it was a multi-functional club and not dedicated to cricket alone. Its membership attracted large numbers of sporting gentry and it dominated the sport, both on and off the field, for about thirty years until the formation ofMarylebone Cricket Club in 1787. Hambledon produced some legendary Hampshire players including masterbatsmanJohn Small and the two great fast bowlersThomas Brett andDavid Harris. Following the demise of the Hambledon Club towards the end of the 18th century, Hampshire continued to be recognised as a first-class team into the nineteenth century but, after the 1828 season, they had long spells without any first-class matches until the county club was founded in 1864. The county played some first-class fixtures during 1842 to 1845 and one match versusMCC in 1861 but was otherwise outside cricket's mainstream through 1829 to 1863.
Hampshire County Cricket Club was founded on 12 August 1863[5] and played its first first-class match againstSussex at theAntelope Ground,Southampton on 7 and 8 July 1864. Sussex won by 10 wickets withJames Lillywhite claiming ten wickets in the match for 80 runs, including his 100th career wicket.[6] Hampshire was recognised as a first-class team from 1864 to 1885. In 1886, Hampshire lost its status after years of difficult circumstances and poor results. The team did play againstSurrey and Sussex in 1886 but the matches were considered minor standard. Hampshire recovered first-class status from the beginning of the1895 County Championship season when the team was invited to join the now officialCounty Championship. They finished the season in tenth place, sixteen points behind winners Surrey.[7]
Between 1900 and 1905, Hampshire were almost continuously struggling as their key officer-batsmen,Major Poore andCaptain Wynyard were faced with either moving to South Africa or increased military duties at home from theBoer War. The club finished last or equal last in 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905, failing to win a single game in the first of those seasons; however in 1901, with the temporary acquisition ofCaptain Greig from India and the qualification ofCharlie Llewellyn, Hampshire won as many games as it lost. From 1906 onwards, with the qualification ofPhil Mead,Jack Newman and laterGeorge Brown, Hampshire became a much more competitive side, though not until 1910 did they win as many games as they lost in a season.
The period from 1912 to 1926, though they never got nearCounty Championship honours, was to be the most successful for a long time in Hampshire's history: in those eleven seasons they won 98 and lost 96 of 292 games – only once otherwise until 1954 did they win more games than they lost.[8] Mead, Brown, Kennedy and Newman were in the prime during this period, and they had the services ofLord Tennyson who captained the side from 1919 to 1932 as well as captaining the England team in three Tests, and the occasional aid of many other amateurs including the greatC. B. Fry, who averaged an amazing 102 in seven games during1912. In 1922, Hampshire won one of the most remarkable victories in County Championship history when, they defeatedWarwickshire by 155 runs after having followed on when dismissed for just 15. They scored 521 after being invited to bat again, set Warwickshire 314 to win and bowled them out for 158. Brown, with 172, and Livsey who scored 110* at number 10, were the heroes.[9]
From 1927, Hampshire declined severely as their stalwart professionals declined and the level of amateur support fell off alarmingly. Only in 1932 and 1948 did they finish above tenth until 1955. WithStuart Boyes andLofty Herman not fully adequate replacements as bowling mainstays for Kennedy and Newman, the bowling was never strong, and the batting generally uncertain especially when Mead declined from1929 onwards. In 1937Dick Moore set the individual scoring record for Hampshire against Warwickshire atDean Park Cricket Ground inBournemouth. His 316 took just 380 minutes and contained 43fours and three sixes.[10] AfterWorld War II,Derek Shackleton became an outstanding bowling mainstay well backed up byVictor Cannings, but not until 1955 did these two have enough support to rise the fortunes of the club. In 1955 Hampshire finished as high as third with Shackleton taking 160 wickets and Cannings andPeter Sainsbury around 100, withRoy Marshall was one of the few exciting batsmen of the time.
The following years were mixed: a rise to second in 1958 withMalcolm Heath replacing Cannings as Shackleton's partner was followed by two disappointing years before Hampshire won the 1961 County Championship, their first ever County Championship success, finishing the season with 268 points, 18 ahead of Yorkshire. Hampshire won 19 of their 32 matches, losing only seven matches all season.[11] The club were led byColin Ingleby-Mackenzie with Marshall scoring the most runs for the club with 2,455.Derek Shackleton took the most wickets for the club with 153, andButch White’s tearaway speed was equally dangerous in a dry summer.
Again, however, Hampshire were disappointing untilBarry Richards joined the county in 1968, when they rose from tenth to fifth in the Championship and established themselves as a power in limited-overs cricket.Bob Cottam was the second-highest first-class wicket-taker in 1968 and the highest in 1969, but did not maintain this excellence before joiningNorthamptonshire and in 1970 and 1971 Hampshire fell to mid-table. In the 1973 County Championship Hampshire won the County Championship for a second time, winning the competition by 31 points from Surrey.[12] The club won 10 of their 20 matches and drew the other 10. During this season they were led byRichard Gilliat withGordon Greenidge scoring the most runs for the club with 1,620.Bob Herman andMike Taylor both took 63 wickets. This remains Hampshire's last success in the tournament. In 1979 West IndianMalcolm Marshall, widely regarded as one of the best bowlers to grace the game joined the club. This was to be the start of a 14-year stay with the club. During that time Marshall would go on to take 824 first-class wickets at an average of 18.64[13] and 239 wickets at 24.88 in one-day cricket.[14] 1984 also saw the last game ofVenezuelan captainNick Pocock (Maracaibo, 1951) and the arrival of another West Indian,Cardigan Connor who would spend 14 years with the club. Regarded as one of the best players not to playTest cricket, Connor took 614 first-class wickets for Hampshire at an average of 31.74[15] and 411 wickets at 25.07 in one-day cricket.[16] In 1985 Hampshire finished second in the County Championship, finishing 18 points behind winnersMiddlesex.Chris Smith led the way with the bat, scoring 1,720 runs.[17] and was well backed up by the bowling ofMalcolm Marshall who took 95 wickets at the impressive average of 17.68.[18] Later in, 1988 the club won theBenson & Hedges Cup by beatingDerbyshire by 7 wickets at Lord's, largely thanks to a five wicket haul byStephen Jefferies. The 1990s brought about further success in the first half of the decade, and later struggles in the latter half. In the 1991 County Championship season Hampshire won theNatWest Trophy, defeatingSurrey by 4 wickets, withShaun Udal claiming the man of the match award. This was the clubs firstone day honour in this competition. Hampshire again repeated their 1988 success in the Benson & Hedges Cup by winning the 1992 competition. In the final atLord's they beatKent by 41 runs, including 90 runs fromRobin Smith and three wickets each fromMalcolm Marshall and Shaun Udal. This marked Hampshire's second success in the competition. In 1996 Malcolm Marshall returned to coach the club. In 1997 work begun on Hampshire's long-awaited new ground. The realisation of this move almost led the club to financial ruin, as encouragement from financial partnersSport England and the hiring of architectSir Michael Hopkins had led the then part-time voluntary committee running the club to lose control of the budget.[19]
In 2000 Australian greatShane Warne was signed as the club's overseas player. The 2000 County Championship was to be the last season that Hampshire would play at theCounty Ground Southampton before they moved in 2001 to the newRose Bowl ground just outsideSouthampton. 2001 also saw current club chairman take over the running of the club, after a period of financial difficulty.[20] In the2002 County Championship Hampshire were relegated back to Division Two, finishing third bottom in Division One.[21] It was during this season that the club signed former England batsmanJohn Crawley fromLancashire. In the 2003 season Hampshire and England greatRobin Smith retired from all forms of cricket after 23 years with the club.[22] In 2005, Hampshire performed well in both first-class and one-day forms of the game. The side narrowly missed out on winning theCounty Championship Division 1 by just 2.5 points to Nottinghamshire.[23] In the2005 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy Hampshire progressed to the final thanks to a century in the semi-final againstYorkshire by Sean Ervine.[24] In the final atLord's againstWarwickshire Ervine repeated the feat scoring 104 runs as Hampshire won by 18 runs;[25] Hampshire's first silverware in 13 years. Two years later, Hampshire progressed to the final of the newly renamed2007 Friends Provident Trophy atLord's after finishing top of the South Division.[26] In the final the club playedDurham where they lost by 125 runs as the match went into a reserve day due to rain.[27] In 2007 Hampshire chairmanRod Bransgrove announcedplans for the redevelopment of the Rose Bowl to bring Test cricket to the ground.[28] Prior to the2008 County Championship season Australian legend and club captainShane Warne reiterated his commitment to the club. But shortly before the start of the season Warne announced his retirement from first-class cricket.[29]
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Former captainShaun Udal also announced his retirement, having played for Hampshire since 1989,[30] though he later joinedMiddlesex.Dimitri Mascarenhas was named Warne's replacement as captain for the 2008 season.[31] In 2008, Hampshire struggled and were near the foot of the Division 1 table for the majority of the season. Midway through the season coachPaul Terry stood down and was replaced byGiles White. A series of strong performances helped Hampshire go from relegation favourites to title outsiders going into the final round of matches. The club ended up finishing in third place, twelve points behind winners Durham.[32] On 25 July the club won the2009 Friends Provident Trophy final at Lord's, beating rivalsSussex[33] thanks to a man-of-the-match performance fromDominic Cork, with him taking 4/41. Hampshire created history by winning the2010 Friends Provident t20 in front of home support after defeating Somerset – the first team to win a Twenty20 trophy on home turf in England and Wales. On 14 September 2011, in their four-day game against Warwickshire at The Rose Bowl, Hampshire were officially relegated to the County Championship Second Division. The 2012 season though, under new captainJimmy Adams after the retirement of Cork, would prove to be highly successful for Hampshire with the county winning both the2012 Friends Life t20[34] – their 2ndTwenty20 title, and the2012 Clydesdale Bank 40 where a final ball dot ball fromKabir Ali led to Hampshire winning as a result of losing less wickets than opponentsWarwickshire.[35] Club legendDimitri Mascarenhas played in both finals but retired at the end of the 2013 season.
However, despite constant success in limited overs cricket the county continued to struggle in First class cricket leading to coachGiles White moving into a Director of Cricket position andDale Benkenstein being appointed the new coach at the beginning of 2014. He brought instant success as Hampshire won promotion as champions to the County Championship First Division with victory overGlamorgan on 23 September 2014. The 2015 season was reasonable successful with Hampshire qualifying for a record 6th successive Twenty20 Finals Day, however their First class performances at the beginning of the season were poor leading to Adams' resignation as captain.James Vince took over as captain, having already become List A andT20 captain previously, and led a revival as Hampshire won four of their last five games, meaning that Hampshire completed the 'Great Escape' as victory overNottinghamshire in their final games thanks to 10 wickets fromWest IndianFidel Edwards, andYorkshire's victory overSussex meant that Sussex andWorcestershire were relegated to Division Two with Hampshire staying up.
In the winter of 2015 Hampshire completed the signing ofEngland seamerReece Topley fromEssex. The club also announced that Fidel Edwards had signed a new deal andSouth African all rounderRyan McLaren had signed as an overseas player. On 14 January 2016, Hampshire Cricket was announced as one of six new teams in the inaugural Women's Cricket Super League. Hampshire, in partnership with Berkshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire, Sussex and Wiltshire cricket boards along with Southampton Solent University, will compete in a women'sTwenty20 competition against the other team.[36] On 28 January 2016 Hampshire appointed former Wiltshire coachNick Denning as their inaugural coach for their Women's team. Following the appointment of Denning, Hampshire announced the naming of their Women's Cricket Super League team as theSouthern Vipers. The Vipers then won the inauguralKia Super League on 21 August, defeatingWestern Force in the final by 7 wickets. Overseas starSuzie Bates was named as player of the tournament. For the male team though it was a season of disappointment. A large number of injuries at the start of the season, including to fast bowlers Reece Topley, Fidel Edwards,Chris Wood andRyan Stevenson, coupled with poor form and tough circumstances, after the death of trialist fast bowlerHamza Ali in a drowning accident, and long serving opening batsmanMichael Carberry being diagnosed with a cancerous lung tumour, saw Hampshire suffer a poor season, being knocked out in the group stages of both theNatwest t20 Blast, where they missed out on Finals Day for the first time since 2009, and theRoyal London One-Day Cup. Their championship season was much the same as in 2015, again making a slow start, but they gave themselves too much to do and were relegated back to Division Two after defeat againstDurham on 23 September 2016. However, on 3 October 2016 Hampshire were given a reprieve as Durham were relegated to Division Two after taking up a financial package from the ECB to help with their finances, with their relegation and a points deduction being the fine for taking this agreement.[37] CoachDale Benkenstein departed as coach for 'Personal Reasons' in mid-July and was replaced byCraig White originally in a caretaker role, before taking over as full-time first team coach in November. At the end of the season, long serving seamerJames Tomlinson retired having been with Hampshire since 2002 and making over 150 appearances in all formats for Hampshire. The Winter of 2017 saw Hampshire draw criticism over the signings ofKyle Abbott andRilee Rossouw onKolpak deals, with these players giving up international cricket to represent Hampshire.[38] On the field Hampshire again had a mixed season in first class cricket, avoiding relegation for the 3rd season in a row by drawing against already relegatedWarwickshire meaning relegation forMiddlesex, with Kolpak Abbott taking 60 wickets across the First-class season. In List A cricket Hampshire again missed out on the knockout stages. However Hampshire performed better in Twenty20 cricket, qualifying for their 7th Finals Day in 8 years, although they lost in the semi-final to eventual winnersNottinghamshire. They also recorded their highest Twenty20 score in their quarter-final victory overDerbyshire scoring 249–8, withPakistan overseas playerShahid Afridi scoring a century.
2018 saw improved performances in first-class cricket as Hampshire secured their Division One status before the final day for the first time since promotion in 2014. Kolpak starsKyle Abbott andFidel Edwards both taking more than 50 wickets in the season but it was in List A cricket where Hampshire were most successful, winning the2018 Royal London One-Day Cup, with a century in the final atLord's byRilee Rossouw. Hampshire though performed poorly in Twenty20 cricket finishing 2nd bottom of the South group. Overseas playerMujeeb Ur Rahman though became the first Afghan to play for Hampshire, and the first player to be born in the 21st century to play for Hampshire. Long time playersJimmy Adams andSean Ervine though retired at the end of the 2018 season having amassed more than 35,000 runs in all formats between them for Hampshire, while coachCraig White also departed after two seasons as head coach, and was replaced by South AfricanAdrian Birrell in December.
2019 again saw strong performance in first-class cricket as Hampshire finished 3rd in the County Championship, their highest finish in over 10 years. Kyle Abbott once again was leading wicket taker, while also taking the best Hampshire bowling figures in a match when he took 17/86 against Somerset in September.Ajinkya Rahane also became the first Indian player to represent Hampshire during an overseas spell in June. Hampshire once again also made the2019 Royal London One-Day Cup final, however this year they were defeated in the final by Somerset. There was though success for Hampshire academy graduates James Vince and Liam Dawson as they were part of England's victorious World Cup winning side. Hampshire, though, again failed to progress from the group in T20 cricket. The following 2020 season was heavily disrupted by theCOVID-19 pandemic with only ashortened localised red ball tournament and T20 played. Hampshire, missing a large number of players to injury, international selection and travel restrictions, struggled winning just two red ball and two white ball games. A large number of young academy players though made their debuts whileJames Fuller took a hat-trick in a first-class game against Surrey, while overseas playerShaheen Afridi took four wickets in four balls in the final T20 match of the season against Middlesex. West Indian fast bowler Fidel Edwards announced his departure during the season due to not being able to travel due to the restrictions aroundCOVID-19 and the impending change to the Kolpak ruling, after taking over 200 wickets in all formats. 2021 saw a return to the traditional County Championship, although in a differing format, with Hampshire missing out on their first County Championship title since 1973 following a loss toLancashire in the final match of the season. In Twenty20 cricket, Hampshire made Finals Day following a dramatic 2 run win overNottinghamshire in the quarter-final, but lost to Somerset in the semi-finals. Hampshire's List A side was depleted due toThe Hundred competition being played alongside the One Day Cup competition. With Hampshire missing 7 players to The Hundred, they missed out on the playoffs, although a number of young players were given the opportunity to play. Individually,Keith Barker won Hampshire's Players Player of the Year, while fellow bowler, overseas internationalMohammad Abbas picked up a hat-trick in the County Championship against Middlesex.
In 2022, Hampshire continued their upturn in County Championship form, throughout the season having an outside shot at a first title since 1973, but lost their final two games, eventually finishing third in Division One. This was mainly due to the fantastic form shown by Mohammad Abbas, Kyle Abbott and Keith Barker, who all took fifty wickets in the season. Despite losing a number of players to The Hundred again, Hampshire topped their group in the One Day Cup, with young batterTom Prest hitting Hampshire's second highest ever individual list A score, with 181 against Kent. They would, however, lose to the same opposition at the semi-final stage. The T20 Blast saw the signings of Australian pairBen McDermott andNathan Ellis, and the duo helped Hampshire to a third T20 title, with a narrow one-run victory over Lancashire in the final.
The 2023 season saw Hampshire finish third in the County Championship for the second consecutive year, with captain James Vince passing 1000 runs and Mohammad Abbas taking over 50 wickets again. In a match against Middlesex, Liam Dawson became only the fourth Hampshire player, the first since 1901, to score a century and take ten wickets in the same match. Hampshire again progressed in the One Day Cup, only losing one match in the group stage, but fell to a narrow defeat in the final against Leicestershire. Fast bowlerJohn Turner helped Hampshire to a third successive Finals Day, but they were beaten by Essex in the semi-final. In 2024, Hampshire had to settle for second place in the County Championship; having been winless in the first five matches, they went unbeaten for the rest of the year, with 50-wicket hauls for Kyle Abbott and Liam Dawson, who repeated his impressive feat from the previous year against Lancashire. Hampshire again progressed from their One Day Cup group, a campaign which saw 18-year-oldDominic Kelly take a hat-trick against Derbyshire, but were again beaten by Leicestershire, this time at the quarter-final stage. However, Hampshire struggled in T20 cricket, finishing 7th in the South Group and missing out on Finals Day for the first time since 2020.
In September 2024 it was announced that the club has agreed to a deal with theGMR Group, that will take over of the club.[39] Hampshire were part of the inauguralGlobal Super League in Guyana, winning a match againstRangpur Riders of Bangladesh, that went to asuper over. In early 2025, long-standing captain James Vince announced he would not play red-ball cricket for Hampshire in 2025[40] andBen Brown was confirmed as Hampshire's new Club Captain.[41] Hampshire's side faced lots of disruption due to injuries and overseas callups, and they struggled for form in the County Championship, narrowly avoiding relegation on the final day owing to Durham's defeat at Yorkshire. Kyle Abbott, however, had another excellent season in which he exceeded 50 wickets. Hampshire reached the Final of the One Day Cup, built upon their fruitful opening partnership of captainNick Gubbins andAli Orr, losing in a rain-affected match to Worcestershire. Gubbins' tournament average of 88.37 was the highest in Hampshire's history. Hampshire returned to Finals Day again, andChris Lynn hit the first ever century on Finals Day[42] in Hampshire's semi-final win over Northamptonshire, but they lost in the final to Somerset. However, positive campaigns for Sonny Baker and Scott Currie saw them receive their first England call-ups. In September 2025, it was confirmed thatAdrian Birrell would leave his position as head coach after seven years.[43]
| No. | Name | Nat. | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
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| 5 | Joe Weatherley* |  England | (1997-01-19)19 January 1997 (age 28) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| 14 | James Vince* ‡ | England | (1991-03-14)14 March 1991 (age 34) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | Captain (T20); White ball contract |
| 15 | Toby Albert | England | (2001-11-12)12 November 2001 (age 24) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| 17 | Ben Mayes | England | (2007-11-21)21 November 2007 (age 18) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | |
| 19 | Fletcha Middleton | England | (2002-01-21)21 January 2002 (age 23) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| 27 | Ali Orr | England | (2001-04-06)6 April 2001 (age 24) | Left-handed | Right-armmedium | |
| 31 | Nick Gubbins* | England | (1993-12-31)31 December 1993 (age 31) | Left-handed | Right-armleg break | Captain (LA) |
| 88 | Mark Stoneman ‡ | England | (1987-06-26)26 June 1987 (age 38) | Left-handed | Right-armoff break | |
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| 3 | Felix Organ | England | (1999-06-02)2 June 1999 (age 26) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| 8 | Liam Dawson* ‡ | England | (1990-03-01)1 March 1990 (age 35) | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | England central contract |
| 16 | Dominic Kelly | England | (2005-10-01)1 October 2005 (age 20) | Left-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 24 | Tom Prest | England | (2003-03-24)24 March 2003 (age 22) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| 26 | James Fuller* | England | (1990-01-24)24 January 1990 (age 35) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
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| 10 | Ben Brown* | England | (1988-11-23)23 November 1988 (age 37) | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Club captain |
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| 6 | John Turner ‡ | England | (2001-04-10)10 April 2001 (age 24) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 25 | Chris Wood* | England | (1990-06-27)27 June 1990 (age 35) | Right-handed | Left-armfast-medium | White ball contract |
| 44 | Scott Currie ‡ |  Scotland | (2001-05-02)2 May 2001 (age 24) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 58 | Brad Wheal* ‡ | Scotland | (1996-08-28)28 August 1996 (age 29) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 87 | Kyle Abbott* ‡ |  South Africa | (1987-06-18)18 June 1987 (age 38) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | Overseas player |
| 91 | Eddie Jack | England | (2005-09-09)9 September 2005 (age 20) | Left-handed | Right-armfast-medium | England development contract |
| 95 | Sonny Baker ‡ | England | (2003-03-13)13 March 2003 (age 22) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | England central contract |
| Position | Name |
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| Director of cricket | Giles White |
| First team coach | TBA |
| Batting coach | Jimmy Adams |
| Bowling coach | TBA |
| Fielding consultant | Richard Halsall |
| Second XI coach | Joe Maiden |
| Head of Academy | Charlie Freeston |
| Player development manager | James Tomlinson |
| Player & coach mentor | Tony Middleton |
| Head physiotherapist | Mal Godtschailk |
| Head of sports science & medicine | Jamie Cook |
| Strength & conditioning coach | Ty Chegwidden |
| Performance analyst | Matt Funnell |
| Team liaison officer | Chris Wheeler |
For more details on this topic, seeList of Hampshire County Cricket Club first-class cricket records,List of Hampshire County Cricket Club List A cricket records,List of Hampshire County Cricket Club Twenty20 cricket records.
For more details on this topic, seeHampshire County Cricket Club record by opponent.
Hampshire play the majority of their home matches at The Rose Bowl. One reason for building the new Rose Bowl ground was to attract international cricket to the south coast of England. The oldCounty Ground, Hampshire's home since 1885, no longer had the capability to do this. Land inWest End, on the outskirts of Southampton was chosen as the location for The Rose Bowl. Construction began in March 1997 and was completed in time for the2001 season. Hampshire's first first-class match on the ground was againstWorcestershire, ending in a victory by 124 runs for Hampshire.[45] In July 2008 the ground hosted theTwenty20 Cup final, withMiddlesex defeatingKent by 3 runs in the final. In August 2010, the ground hosted theFriends Provident t20 finals day, in which history was created when Hampshire became the first team to win the tournament at their home ground as they defeatedSomerset in dramatic scenes off the last ball of the match.[46] In 2011,England played their firstTest match at the Rose Bowl during their series withSri Lanka.
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