Academy Youngster To Join Young Lions

Hampshire Academy youngster George Metzger has been selected to take part in England Young Lions' squad for their upcoming Development Week taking place this month.

The wicket keeper-batsman will attend the training camp which will also include matches against Bath Cricket Club, Gloucestershire Second XI, Scotland Academy and Ireland Academy.

The camp gets underway on Saturday 13th April, with players to be put through their paces at the ECB's High Performance Centre in Loughborough.

Metzger is the latest of a number of Hampshire Academy products that have featured for England's youth sides in recent years, all as part of the Club's highly-regarded pathway programme.

The 17-year-old made his Academy debut in 2018, featuring in 18 fixtures for the side since then. He also lined-up for Hampshire Second XI for the first time last season, aged just 16, where he kept wicket to Ryan Stevenson, Ian Holland and other first-team bowlers.