{"id":366407,"date":"2026-01-12T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/366407\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:31:11","slug":"james-vince-hampshire-hawks-batter-signs-one-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/366407\/","title":{"rendered":"James Vince: Hampshire Hawks batter signs one-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire T20 captain James Vince has signed a one-year contract extension with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old former England batter has played his entire career for the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is the all-time leading run-scorer in the T20 Blast, as well as leading the all-time batting charts in The Hundred with Southern Brave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really pleased to be back with Hampshire for another year. This club has been a massive part of my life, and I&#8217;m as motivated as ever to keep performing and pushing for more silverware,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since making his debut in the Blast in 2010, Vince has hit five centuries in the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has won the competition on three occasions in 2010, 2012 and 2022 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/czdj31n7vnlo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">led the Hawks to final last season,<\/a> when they were beaten by Somerset at Edgbaston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vince has also represented the Karachi Kings, Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators in the Pakistan Super League, Sydney Thunder and Sydney Sixers in Australia&#8217;s Big Bash League, Auckland, Paarl Rocks, in South Africa, and Gulf Giants in the International League T20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He earned 13 Test, 25 one-day international and 17 T20 caps for England, hitting one century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire T20 captain James Vince has signed a one-year contract extension with the club. The 34-year-old former England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-366407","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\/366407","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=366407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}