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It has been a busy few weeks for director of cricket Giles White as Hampshire get closer to naming replacements for both Adi Birrell and Graeme Welch. Image: Dave Vokes/Hampshire Cricket
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New front runner for bowling coach role emerges

Hampshire have two senior coaching roles to fill this winter - and The Hawk understands that the county are closer to filling both. Soon.

25.11.25, 10:04 Updated 25.11.25, 11:51

Rich Edwards

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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