New front runner for bowling coach role emerges
25.11.25, 10:04 Updated 25.11.25, 11:51
Rich Edwards
We may find ourselves in the depths of winter, but the cricket season never stops.
And now Hampshire are on the brink of making two decisions that will have a sizeable impact on their 2026 campaign in red and white ball cricket.
The county have been without a head coach and a bowling coach since the departures of Adi Birrell and Graeme Welch at the end of a rollercoaster season on the south coast.
Birrell returned to his farm in South Africa, while Welsh also went home - leaving Hampshire to head back to Warwickshire.
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Rich Edwards is the founder and editor of The Hawk. Rich is a freelance cricket writer and lifelong Hampshire man. He has been published in a host of national publications, including The Times, The Cricketer and The Independent.