Hampshire captain Georgia Adams has signed a two-year contract extension which sees her stay on the membership till at the very least the tip of the 2028 season.
Adams, 32, is likely one of the most embellished gamers within the home sport.
She has received six trophies with Southern Vipers, the regional group based mostly at Utilita Bowl from 2016-2024, and received The Hundred with Oval Invincibles, Southern Courageous, and Trent Rockets.
She has additionally been victorious within the WBBL in Australia, profitable the title with Adelaide Strikers in 2023.
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Residence
The all-rounder led Hampshire to the ultimate of the ladies’s Metro Financial institution One-Day Cup in 2025, the primary 12 months {of professional} ladies’s county cricket, following an unbeaten century within the semi-final towards Surrey at Utilita Bowl.
Adams mentioned: “I completely love taking part in my cricket at Hampshire and Utilita Bowl, this membership is virtually my house.
“As a membership, we’ve got an amazing document in each codecs of the sport together with a repute of growing gamers for each membership and nation.
“I’m delighted I can proceed my profession with Hampshire as we glance to achieve one other 50-over last on our house floor come September.”
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All-time main run scorer
Adams started her profession at Sussex, the place her father Chris cast a 20-year profession. She represented the Martlets in 52 Checklist A and 66 T20s from 2009-2023.
For Southern Vipers, Adams is the group’s all-time main run scorer and most capped participant.
A continuation from the Vipers into Hampshire as a Tier One aspect means Adams has scored over 4,000 runs for the membership since her debut within the 2016 Ladies’s Cricket Tremendous League.
She has additionally taken 156 wickets for the membership out of 252 profession wickets.
This summer time, she claimed her second-best profession figures of 4/16 towards The Blaze within the Vitality Blast behind her 4/11 for Southern Courageous within the 2023 Hundred.
She earned varied call-ups to England consultant sides earlier than incomes a full worldwide cap in 2024 when the Three Lions performed Ireland on the Emerald Isle.
Chief
Adam Carty, Regional Director of Ladies’s Cricket, mentioned: “Georgia is the cornerstone of girls’s cricket right here at Utilita Bowl, and we’re delighted she is going to stay right here for at the very least one other two seasons.
“She is our chief, each on and off the sector, and has showcased her match-winning means on quite a few events with bat and ball for the membership.
“She is a crucial a part of our plans for the following part of our journey, and we look ahead to seeing her proceed to flourish right here at Utilita Bowl.”
Outdoors of the UK, Adams has a profitable profession in Australia the place she has featured in two WBBL seasons, together with her first being Adelaide Strikers’ title-winning season of 2023.
She has additionally represented New South Wales and led the state to the Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket League (WNCL) trophy in 2025.
Adams can also be a three-time winner of The Hundred with Oval Invincibles (2021), Southern Courageous (2023), and now with Trent Rockets, the place she was named Participant of the Match within the last towards Sunrisers Leeds on Sunday 16 August.
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