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Surrey top new Financial Performance Index - but expansion plans could see Hampshire close gap

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16.07.25, 23:19 Updated 17.07.25, 09:12

Rich Edwards

Rich Edwards

The gap between the haves and have-nots in English cricket is as wide as it has ever been - and looks certain to get bigger as the cash from private investment in the Hundred floods in.

So where do Hampshire sit in the Leonard Curtis Financial Performance Index which grades the economic health and the playing prospects of the 18 first class counties for the first time?

And could the arrival of GMR and potential expansion plans for the club's Utilita Bowl home supercharge Hampshire's financial fortunes.

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Rich Edwards

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.

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