Former Southern Vipers duo Charlotte Edwards and Georgia Adams have been appointed the brand new head coach and captain of Hampshire ladies’s cricket respectively.
Each will stay on the Utilita Bowl as a part of the brand new construction in ladies’s home cricket with eight counties internet hosting skilled groups in 2025.
Adams beforehand captained the Vipers and is their main run-scorer, main wicket-taker, and most capped participant.
“It is an honour to be named captain of Hampshire as all of us embark on a brand new period for ladies’s cricket throughout the county,” Adams said, external.
“We’ve got a implausible squad of gamers with a very good combination of youth and expertise so I am trying ahead to getting caught in subsequent summer time with the Rose and Crown.”
Edwards and Adams performed collectively within the 2016 trophy-winning season of the Ladies’s Cricket Tremendous League and have been each concerned in successful all six of Southern Vipers’ trophies, together with lifting The Hundred trophy in 2023 with Southern Courageous.
In 2022 the Vipers gained their first T20 trophy, named after Edwards, earlier than each she and Adams helped the staff to develop into the primary regional aspect to carry each home trophies on the similar time in 2023.
“I am delighted to stay at Utilita Bowl,” Edwards added.
“It has been such a particular place for me since I got here right here in 2016. I am trying ahead to progressing the event of an thrilling group of gamers as we glance to proceed the profitable legacy of girls’s cricket at Utilita Bowl and inside Hampshire.”
