{"id":797233,"date":"2026-10-09T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797233\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:32:09","slug":"jimmy-adams-hampshire-legend-to-leave-county-for-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797233\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Adams: Hampshire legend to leave county for new role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire club legend Jimmy Adams will leave the county after more than 25 years as player and coach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 46-year-old has agreed a new role in Australia with Tasmania having coached for eight years at the Utilita Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adams retired from playing cricket in 2018 after making 462 appearances for Hampshire across all formats, scoring 19,723 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to fulfil a dream and I&#8217;ll be following Hampshire for the rest of my life,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitabowl.com\/cricket\/news\/thank-you,-jimmy\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to an exciting, new challenge, but I don&#8217;t see it as an end, and I&#8217;ll be following Hampshire and wishing the guys well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a tough decision to leave, but I think the timing&#8217;s right, and it gives me a chance to test myself elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to give a big thank you to everyone for their support over the years, especially Giles (White, director of cricket) and the coaches and players I&#8217;ve had the privilege of working with. I&#8217;ll be coming back to support the team and see everyone in the not too distant future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adams was born in Winchester before coming through the ranks at Hampshire and making his debut in 2001. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The opening batter captained the county between 2012-15 and lifted five trophies there during his time as a player. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2022 Adams was named lead batting coach with the Hawks, winning the men&#8217;s Vitality Blast that same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire club legend Jimmy Adams will leave the county after more than 25 years as player and coach.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797233","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\/797233","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=797233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}