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Hampshire Confirm Vipers Academy Cohort For 2025-26
Hampshire Confirm Vipers Academy Cohort For 2025-26
Hampshire Cricket have confirmed their Vipers Academy cohort for 2025-26 with three players joining alongside nine players retained
Hampshire Cricket have confirmed their Vipers Academy intake for 2025-26.
Three all-rounders – Naaz Asif Iqbal (Berkshire), Suri Shah (Oxfordshire), and Poppy White (Dorset) – join the group with nine players retained from last year.
The Academy features players from across Hampshire, Sussex, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Buckinghamshire – the six counties that made up the Southern Vipers, the most successful women’s regional team, which was based at Utilita Bowl.
Three new players join this year’s Academy cohort, transitioning from our EPP programme. We all look forward to welcoming Poppy, Naaz and Suri to the existing group of exciting young cricketers. Everybody here is looking forward to working with the players and seeing where the next stage of their cricketing journey takes them.
Ian Cox, Head of Regional Performance Pathways
2025-26 Vipers Academy Intake:
Mollie Adams, Megan Bishop, Eliza Bristowe, Molly Bulteel, Lottie Curling, Aimee Diab, Naaz Asif Iqbal*, Eve O’Neill, Shristi Patil, Talitha Stanley, Suri Shah*, Poppy White*
Hampshire also confirm players for the Vipers Emerging Players Programme (EPP), with 13 new players coming on to the pathway across the three hubs across the region.
We are excited to announce our Vipers EPP cohort for 2025/26 training across three hubs this winter, selected from our Talent Pathway Catchment Area. We welcome 15 new players who impressed throughout our observation process, joining 13 retained players from the previous year. We are all looking forward to working with this new group of talented young cricketers.
Beth Morgan, Head of Regional Emerging Players Programme
2025-26 Vipers Emerging Players Programme:
Central
North
South West
Tanvi Ravikumar
Alice Atkinson
Viola Elvy
Lily Bowby
Daisy Turnham
Swara Urankar
Mary Briscoe
Niamh Rogan
Georgina Wilson
Emma MacEwen
Rabiya Dogar
Georgia Toosey
Ruhi Kashyap
Tegan Stockdale
Martha Appleby-Ingram*
Sahasra Gupta*
Freya Monk*
Anishka Sharma*
Livia Sharma*
Abi Drew*
Sophie Randall*
Fiza Asif Iqbal*
Kerthanaa Ketheswaran*
Sophie Butcher*
Georgie Russell*
Louise Bucknell*
Jess Glover*
* denotes player new to Academy/EPP
As a tier two county, Sussex remain part of the Hampshire and Vipers’ Tier 1 Talent Pathway Catchment Area but deliver their own Emerging Players Programme in conjunction with the Vipers’ EPP.
