Hampshire CCC: County Championship Pre-Season Catch-up
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📉 2025 Season Review 📝 2026 Player News. 📊 Current Squad & Stats.
2025 Hampshire CCC Review
It was a disappointing year for Hampshire in 2025, surviving the drop by just a single point. While they were hard to beat, recording nine draws (the joint-most in the division), they managed only two victories all summer. Kyle Abbott enjoyed a fantastic campaign that ultimately kept them up, and adding Michael Neser to the attack looks like an excellent piece of business.
However, it was the batting that proved their biggest issue. Their top run-scorer, Ben Brown, finished with 758 runs, which was considerably lower than the leading scorers at most other clubs. While the addition of Jake Lehmann should provide a boost, the team will be hoping for a few more runs from the likes of Liam Dawson, Fletcha Middleton, Nick Gubbins, Toby Albert, and Tom Prest to help the climb the table. With several of these players being young talents who are now a year more experienced, the club will be hopeful of a marked improvement in their returns this time around.
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2025 Stat Attack
- Kyle Abbott was the second top wicket taker with 56 to his name last summer. His 178.50 points per game was the fifth highest for any bowler to play four or more games. He also had the 8th most runs for a bowler in 2025. Kyle Abbott was the most popular player last summer, with Liam Dawson in the 4th most squads.
- Sonny Baker had for bowlers valued £5.5m or less, the fifth most wickets with 19.
- James Fuller had the ninth most wickets for an all-rounder.
- Ben Brown had the sixth most runs for a wicketkeeper and seventh most catches.
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Player Ins & Outs
Unsurprisingly, Kyle Abbott returns following another excellent summer in a Hampshire shirt. Michael Neser has now been withdrawn by Cricket Australia and we await news on his replacment. Fellow Australian Jake Lehmann also joins the club, qualifying as a domestic player via a UK passport after a strong run of form put him in the frame for national selection. In the Sheffield Shield, he is currently the fifth-highest run-scorer, with 531 runs at an average of 44.25, including two centuries and two fifties in his 12 innings. Hampshire have been looking to add depth to their batting unit for some time, and Lehmann could be the man to provide it. Elsewhere, Hilton Cartwright rejoins for the Blast, while white-ball all-rounder Benny Howell has departed for Nottinghamshire. Keith Barker returns to Warwickshire, and Mark Stoneman has been released.
2026 Fixtures
Hampshire begins 2026 by welcoming Essex to the Rose Bowl before traveling to Yorkshire in Gameweek 2. Somerset is the next to visit Southampton before a break in GW4, followed by another home match, this time against Glamorgan. Hampshire will hope to make the most of a decent run of home matches in their early fixtures, as a tricky sequence follows with trips to Essex and Surrey and a home match against Nottinghamshire.
Hampshire faces Sussex in its other June fixture before hosting Yorkshire and traveling to Glamorgan in August. September sees home games against Warwickshire and a final-day clash with Sussex, with away games against Notts and Leicestershire in between.
