{"id":676597,"date":"2026-07-06T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676597\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:44:08","slug":"hampshire-rishi-patel-and-fynn-hudson-prentice-sign-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676597\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire: Rishi Patel and Fynn Hudson-Prentice sign for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hampshire have signed opening bat Rishi Patel and all-rounder Fynn Hudson-Prentice on all-format deals for the 2027 season. <\/p>\n

The pair will join the Rose and Crown following the conclusion of the current campaign with Leicestershire and Sussex respectively.<\/p>\n

Patel, 27, who is the Foxes’ leading scorer in County Championship Division One this season with 587 runs, including a top score of 164, but announced last week that he would be leaving Grace Road.<\/a><\/p>\n

He helped Leicestershire win promotion last summer and has scored over 3,500 runs for the club, with eight hundreds, since joining in 2021.<\/p>\n

Hudson-Prentice has taken 196 wickets and scored more than 4,000 runs in two spells for Sussex across all formats of the game.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old joined Derbyshire in 2019 and spent three years with them before returning to Hove in 2022 where he played a key role in them winning promotion from Division Two two years later. <\/p>\n

“They are experienced, high-quality players who will add strength to our squad,” Hampshire director of cricket Giles White said.<\/p>\n

“Rishi has established himself as a consistent run scorer at the top of the order and will strengthen our batting line-up while Fynn has been a reliable performer with the ball over a number of seasons and also provides significant depth with the bat.<\/p>\n

“Together, they will add quality, experience and balance to the squad, and we look forward to seeing them at the Utilita Bowl next summer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire have signed opening bat Rishi Patel and all-rounder Fynn Hudson-Prentice on all-format deals for the 2027 season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676597","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\/676597","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=676597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}