Hampshire confirm their men’s Academy cohort for 2025-26 with nine players awarded a place on the programme<\/p>\n
Wednesday 12 November 2025<\/p>\n
Hampshire Cricket have confirmed their men\u2019s Academy intake for 2025-26.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s men\u2019s Academy will feature nine players, of which six are newcomers to the programme.<\/p>\n
The Academy welcomes bowlers Abdullah Iqbal, Peter Nedeljkovic, and Barney Overton, batter Adam Bourne, and all-rounders Freddie Gillet and Tom Wellings.<\/p>\n
Pace bowlers Oliver Williams, Ibrahim Zafar, and Manny Lumsden \u2013 who featured in Hampshire\u2019s One Day Cup campaign this year \u2013 remain on the Academy.<\/p>\n
We are really pleased to welcome six new faces to the Academy and are delighted that three players remain with us for 2026. After some great performances in the 2025 season Ben Mayes has earnt a contract and will be looking to contribute in all formats next season in the 1st XI. The Academy squad is a very exciting group with many of the players putting in fantastic performances across various Hampshire teams last season.<\/p>\n
Charlie Freeston, Head of Player Development<\/p>\n
Sam Ashman, Zack Basey, Oli Cordery, and Finn Gordon all depart the programme whilst batter Ben Mayes has been awarded a multi-year contract.<\/p>\n
2025-26 Hampshire Men\u2019s Academy Intake:<\/p>\n
Oliver Williams (all-rounder), Ibrahim Zafar (bowler), Freddie Gillet (all-rounder), Abdullah Iqbal (bowler), Peter Nedeljkovic (bowler), Manny Lumsden (all-rounder), Tom Wellings (all-rounder), Adam Bourne (batter), Barney Overton (bowler).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire confirm their men’s Academy cohort for 2025-26 with nine players awarded a place on the programme Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-259064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259064","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=259064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}