Pace bowler Kyle Abbott took 56 wickets and scored 296 runs to end up as the PCA\u2019s County Championship Most Valuable Player<\/p>\n
Saturday 27 September 2025<\/p>\n
Seam bowler Kyle Abbott has been awarded the Rothesay County Championship MVP award by the PCA (Professional Cricketers\u2019 Association).<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old racked up 339.53 MVP points and is the first seamer to win the accolade since fellow Hampshire teammate Keith Barker in 2022.<\/p>\n
He ended the season with 56 wickets \u2013 the sixth time he has surpassed 50 wickets in a County Championship season and the second most in Division One \u2013 at an average of 20.69.<\/p>\n
He took four five-wicket hauls in the competition with best figures of 5-26 coming against Essex at Chelmsford.<\/p>\n
Abbott also won the PCA Player of the Month award in May when he took 20 wickets in four matches and was awarded a place in the PCA\u2019s Team of the Month.<\/p>\n
Upon winning the Rothesay County Championship Player of the Year, Kyle Abbott, said: \u201cI’m delighted to be named the MVP for the County Championship by the PCA. I<\/p>\n
always strive to put in performances to win games for Hampshire, and hopefully I can continue to do so next season.”<\/p>\n
Fans can watch Kyle Abbott in Division One action in 2026 with a Hampshire Cricket Membership.<\/p>\n
Prices start at \u00a3220 for adults with a range of junior, student, and young people memberships available from just \u00a330.<\/p>\n
Memberships are available at the Early Bird rate until 31st January 2026.<\/p>\n
To explore Hampshire Cricket\u2019s membership offerings, please visit the link below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pace bowler Kyle Abbott took 56 wickets and scored 296 runs to end up as the PCA\u2019s County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-174978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}