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Charlotte Edwards And Georgia Adams Named As Hampshire Women’s Head Coach And Captain
Charlotte Edwards And Georgia Adams Named As Hampshire Women’s Head Coach And Captain
Georgia Adams joins Hampshire to captain the women's team whilst Charlotte Edwards will remain at Utilita Bowl as Hampshire women's head coach
Charlotte Edwards and Georgia Adams will both remain at Utilita Bowl to lead Hampshire Women as Head Coach and Captain, respectively, from 2025.
Adams, 31, captained Southern Vipers – the regional team based at Utilita Bowl – and is their leading run scorer, leading wicket taker, and most capped player.
Edwards played with Adams in the trophy-winning 2016 season of the inaugural Women’s Cricket Super League (KIA Super League/KSL), and played in the first two seasons of the competition.
Overall, both Adams and Edwards played a part in winning all six of Southern Vipers’ trophies, along with lifting The Hundred trophy in 2023 with Southern Brave.
It's an honour to be named captain of Hampshire as we all embark on a new era for women's cricket within the county. We have a fantastic squad of players with a really good mixture of youth and experience so I'm looking forward to getting stuck in next summer with the Rose and Crown.
Georgia Adams, Hampshire Women Captain
One of England’s most successful players in history, Edwards made her international debut in 1996 and went on to have a 20-year international career before she retired from playing in 2016, having held the records as England Women’s leading run scorer in ODIs – which she still holds – and IT20s, which has since been surpassed by Danni Wyatt-Hodge.
Edwards moved to Hampshire in 2017 having previously played for Kent, where she spent the final few years of her career as a player before becoming Director of Women’s Cricket at the Club in 2018, taking over as Southern Vipers’ head coach in 2020.
She oversaw the successful first year of the Vipers in the regional era, coaching the team to silverware in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, and repeated the achievement the following year.
2022 saw the Vipers win their first T20 trophy, named after Charlotte Edwards, before both she and Adams helped the team to become the first regional side to hold both domestic trophies at the same time in 2023.
I'm delighted to remain at Utilita Bowl as it's been such a special place for me since I came here in 2016. I'm looking forward to progressing the development of an exciting group of players as we look to continue the successful legacy of women's cricket at Utilita Bowl and within Hampshire
Charlotte Edwards, Hampshire Women Head Coach
After scoring 795 runs and 30 wickets for the Vipers, and a further 136 runs and 16 wickets – the most of anyone – in the Women’s Hundred, Adams was the PCA’s Domestic Most Valuable Player of the Year.
Adams was awarded with a contract to play for New South Wales in the Women’s National Cricket League in Australia over the winter of 2023-24, where she was also picked up by Adelaide Strikers, and went on to lift the trophy – her fourth of the year.
In 2024, Adams and Edwards led the team to a third consecutive Charlotte Edwards Cup Finals Day, and helped the team reach the semi-finals of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy to continue the team’s record of being the only side to reach the knockout stages of every regional competition.
Adams recently received her maiden England cap when she played two IT20s against Ireland in September 2024.
