{"id":668609,"date":"2026-05-13T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668609\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:10:11","slug":"liam-dawson-hampshire-all-rounder-retires-from-first-class-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668609\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Dawson: Hampshire all-rounder retires from first-class cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dawson scored more than 10,000 runs and took over 350 wickets across 200-plus appearances for Hampshire. <\/p>\n

He also featured four times in Test matches for England against India and South Africa, with his most recent appearance coming last summer at Emirates Old Trafford. <\/p>\n

Only Robin Smith, Jimmy Adams and James Vince have scored more runs than Dawson for the men’s team in the 21st Century. <\/p>\n

He scored 54 half-centuries and 17 hundreds, with a career-best innings of 171 coming against Kent at Canterbury in 2022.<\/p>\n

He signed a new three-year contract<\/a> at Hampshire in 2025 and will return to Utilita Bowl for their first T20 match of the season on 22 May.<\/p>\n

“Liam has been an outstanding servant to Hampshire Cricket,” said director of cricket Giles White.<\/p>\n

“He leaves a huge hole in the team and will be hard to replace, especially for the remainder of this Championship season.<\/p>\n

“He is the only Hampshire player of the modern era to represent the club in over 200 first-class appearances, which underlines just how rare an achievement that is at this level.<\/p>\n

“We support Liam’s decision and are delighted he remains fully committed to the white-ball game. We have no doubt he will continue to be a match-winner for Hampshire for years to come. He remains a hugely important part of our plans.”<\/p>\n

Dawson’s announcement came an hour after he was left out of England’s Test squad<\/a> to play New Zealand at Lord’s in June – a group including leg-spinning all-rounder Rehan Ahmed and off-spinner Shoaib Bashir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dawson scored more than 10,000 runs and took over 350 wickets across 200-plus appearances for Hampshire. He also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-668609","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\/668609","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=668609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}