South Africa middle-order batter Tristan Stubbs has signed for Hampshire Hawks for the 2026 T20 Blast.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old has scored 3,188 runs in 154 T20 matches with an average of 32.30 and an impressive strike rate of 142.95.<\/p>\n
While this will be his first T20 Blast campaign, Stubbs has franchise experience in the Indian Premier League (IPL), Caribbean Premier League (CPL), SA20 and The Hundred. <\/p>\n
He made his South Africa debut in 2022, and has been capped 42 times in international T20s, scoring 822 runs in 36 innings.<\/p>\n
“Tristan is a hugely talented player with strong connections to the club through his time at Delhi Capitals [owned by Hampshire co-owners GMR Group] and his relationships with our coaches, past and present,” director of cricket Giles White told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n “He’s a wonderful addition, and having him involved is a massive boost for both our squad and the competition as a whole.”<\/p>\n Stubbs – who has also played 14 Tests for his country, hitting three centuries – has also joined Hampshire-based Southern Brave as a signing for the 2026 edition of The Hundred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa middle-order batter Tristan Stubbs has signed for Hampshire Hawks for the 2026 T20 Blast. The 25-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-405822","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\/405822","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=405822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}