{"id":129677,"date":"2025-09-11T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129677\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:19:14","slug":"adrian-birrell-hampshire-mens-head-coach-to-leave-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129677\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Birrell: Hampshire men&#8217;s head coach to leave at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Ireland and England U-19 head coach added: &#8220;This is a fantastically talented group of young players that will need a new coach to come in with a fantastic energy and take them forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have a farm, family and kids at home [in South Africa] and I don&#8217;t get to see them. It&#8217;s a really selfish decision and we decided as a team it was time for change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birrell secured three third-place finishes in the County Championship with the club finishing runners-up in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the white-ball game he has made it to finals day on four occasions, and on Saturday he has the chance to win a second T20 Blast title with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire director of cricket Giles White <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitabowl.com\/cricket\/news\/thank-you-adi\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website:, external<\/a> &#8220;All good things come to an end, and we are sad to see Adi go. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a fantastic seven years at the club, during which he has become a hugely popular figure and overseen a successful period across all formats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Under his leadership, the team has reached numerous finals, come close in Championships, and lifted the Blast title in 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His contribution has left a lasting mark, and he will be deeply missed by players, coaches, and fans alike at the Utilita Bowl.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Ireland and England U-19 head coach added: &#8220;This is a fantastically talented group of young players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-129677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}