Hampshire and England all-rounder Liam Dawson has retired from first-class cricket with quick impact.
The 36-year-old will proceed to signify Hampshire throughout the Vitality Blast and Metro Financial institution One Day Cup.
Dawson has performed over 200 instances for Hampshire in purple ball cricket the place he scored over 10,000 runs and took greater than 350 wickets.
He additionally featured 4 instances in Take a look at matches for England the place he scored an unbeaten 66 on debut in India and took eight wickets, together with dismissing Yashasvi Jaiswal together with his seventh ball on his return to the Take a look at facet in 2025.
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Award
He was additionally awarded the PCA Males’s Participant of the Yr in 2024, changing into the primary home participant to win the award since 2018.
In the identical season, Dawson additionally received the PCA Males’s Home Total MCP and the Vitality County Championship Participant of the Yr.
Following his standout performances in 2024, Dawson was named as one in every of Wisden’s 5 Cricketers of the Yr to turn into the primary Hampshire participant to be included since Kevin Pietersen in 2006.
Dawson, stated: “I’ve determined to retire from first-class cricket. It’s a choice that I haven’t taken flippantly however I really feel for the good thing about prolonging my profession in white ball cricket, the time is true.
“I’m extraordinarily proud to have performed over 200 video games for Hampshire and have had some superb recollections with so many gamers through the years.
“I’m absolutely dedicated to enjoying white ball cricket for Hampshire and persevering with the success we’ve had.
“To the followers and members who’ve turned out through the years, I can’t thanks sufficient in your assist.
“Hampshire will all the time be my residence, and I stay up for enjoying in entrance of you all at Utilita Bowl very quickly.”
Greats
Dawson will go down in historical past as one in every of Hampshire’s modern-day greats.
Of males’s Hampshire gamers within the twenty first century, solely Robin Smith, Jimmy Adams, and James Vince have scored extra runs than Dawson.
He scored 54 half-centuries and 17 a whole lot, with a career-best innings of 171 coming in Hampshire’s victory over Kent at Canterbury in 2022 because the crew went on to complete third within the County Championship.
From 2023-2024, Dawson had a exceptional purple patch with each bat and ball.
He scored 1,796 runs throughout the 2 Championship campaigns, with 9 fifties and 6 centuries, and took 103 wickets at a median of twenty-two.69 with eight five-wicket hauls.
In opposition to Middlesex at Utilita Bowl in 2023, Dawson grew to become the primary Hampshire participant to attain a century and take ten wickets within the match since CB Llewellyn in 1903; Dawson then repeated the feat in opposition to Lancashire at Previous Trafford a yr later.
Throughout his County Championship profession, Dawson completed runners-up in 2024 and third in 2022. He helped the membership acquire promotion from Division Two in 2014, with the membership remaining in Division One since then – a interval of 11 consecutive years within the high flight.
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Giles White, director of cricket at Hampshire, stated: “Liam has been an impressive servant to Hampshire Cricket.
“To have performed over 200 First Class video games for this county speaks volumes about his dedication and high quality.
“He leaves an enormous gap within the crew and can be onerous to exchange, particularly for the rest of this Championship season.
“He’s the one Hampshire participant of the fashionable period to signify the Membership in over 200 First Class appearances, which underlines simply how uncommon an achievement that’s at this degree.
“We assist Liam’s determination and are delighted he stays absolutely dedicated to the white ball sport.
“He has been integral to the success we’ve inbuilt that format, and we have now little question he’ll proceed to be a match winner for Hampshire for years to return.
“He stays a vastly vital a part of our plans.”
Liam Dawson will stay out there for Hampshire within the Vitality Blast and Metro Financial institution One-Day Cup, the place he has tasted success lifting six white ball trophies, together with all three of Hampshire’s T20 titles.
Hampshire Hawks’ males reached a report eleventh Finals Day in 2025, while each Hampshire’s women and men have been One Day Cup finalists final summer season.
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