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Tristan Stubbs and Russell Domingo are coming to Hampshire this summer - so what can supporters expect from them? Image: Dave Vokes/Hampshire Cricket
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Domingo set to shake things up at the Utilita

Chris Wood has spent the winter playing for the Sunrisers Eastern Cape - a team which featured both outgoing Hampshire coach Adi Birrell and his successor Russell Domingo. Not to mention new T20 signing, Tristan Stubbs. So what has Wood learned about two men who could help shape Hampshire's 2026 season?

05.02.26, 10:36 Updated 05.02.26, 10:39

Rich Edwards

Rich Edwards

Hampshire has been a byword for continuity for much of the past decade: a stable coaching setup, a core group of players, and an ownership structure that has been in place for nearly 25 years.

The past six months, therefore, have represented something akin to a whirlwind whipping through the John Arlott atrium in the Rod Bransgrove Pavilion, before working its way out to the Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie and Shane Warne stands and finishing in Beefy’s in the on-site Hilton Hotel - presumably for a decent glass of red and a steak.

On that theme, Hampshire presented outgoing coach Adi Birrell with a prize bull when he left the club in September.

It was an apt gift for a coach who had been at Hampshire since 2019 and was now intent on spending more time at his family farm back home in South Africa.

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