Edwards and Adams to remain Hampshire Women head coach and captain respectively

CHARLOTTE Edwards and Georgia Adams will both remain at Utilita Bowl to lead Hampshire Women as Head Coach and Captain, respectively, from 2025.

Adams, 31, captained Southern Vipers – the regional team based at Utilita Bowl – and is their leading run-scorer, leading wicket-taker, and most capped player.

Edwards played with Adams in the trophy-winning 2016 season of the inaugural Women’s Cricket Super League and played in the first two seasons of the competition.

Overall, both Adams and Edwards played a part in winning all six of Southern Vipers’ trophies, along with lifting The Hundred trophy in 2023 with Southern Brave.

Georgia Adams said: "It's an honour to be named captain of Hampshire as we all embark on a new era for women's cricket within the county.

"We have a fantastic squad of players with a really good mixture of youth and experience so I'm looking forward to getting stuck in next summer with the Rose and Crown."

One of England’s most successful players in history, Edwards moved to Hampshire in 2017 having previously played for Kent, where she spent the final few years of her career as a player before becoming director of women’s cricket at the club in 2018, taking over as Southern Vipers’ head coach in 2020.

She oversaw the successful first year of the Vipers in the regional era, coaching the team to silverware in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, and repeated the achievement the following year.

In 2022, the Vipers won their first T20 trophy, named after Charlotte Edwards, before both she and Adams helped the team become the first regional side to hold both domestic trophies at the same time in 2023.

Edwards said: "I'm delighted to remain at Utilita Bowl as it's been such a special place for me since I came here in 2016.

"I'm looking forward to progressing the development of an exciting group of players as we look to continue the successful legacy of women's cricket at Utilita Bowl and within Hampshire."