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Match Preview: Yorkshire v Hampshire Men, Rothesay County Championship
Match Preview: Yorkshire v Hampshire Men, Rothesay County Championship
Headingley plays host to Yorkshire v Hampshire Men, as Ben Brown’s side look to bounce back from defeat in their season opener
Yorkshire v Hampshire Men
Rothesay County Championship
Friday 10-Monday 13 April (11am start)
Headingley, Leeds
Hampshire Men head to Headingley as they look to right the wrongs of their innings defeat to Essex in the season opener.
By Ben Brown’s own admission, the team were outplayed in all facets of the game but there were positives in Sonny Baker bowling with heat, and Kyle Abbott as metronomic as usual.
In the second dig, Tom Prest notched up the first individual fifty of the summer whilst Nick Gubbins showed that survival was possible, as he endured 161 balls and just under four hours of batting for his 48.
Yorkshire were on the road to promoted side Glamorgan last week, and clung on to a draw after former Hampshire man Mason Crane took eight wickets in the match.
Ex-England spinner Dom Bess claimed seven wickets, whilst up-and-coming all-rounder Matt Revis made a first innings fifty before stalwart Adam Lyth fell three runs shy of a century, as Yorkshire came just three wickets away from defeat at Cardiff.
Hampshire
Hampshire have named a 14-player squad for their first trip to Headingley since 2019.
All-rounder Dom Kelly is the only addition to an otherwise unchanged squad that played against Essex at Utilita Bowl last weekend.
Kelly made his County Championship debut last summer against Worcestershire and took the wicket of Adam Hose. The year before, he became the youngest player to take a hat-trick for Hampshire when he dismissed Derbyshire’s Zak Chappell, Harry Moore, and Daryn Dupavillon in the Metro Bank One Day Cup.
Full Hampshire squad
Kyle Abbott (87)
Eddie Jack (91)
Toby Albert (15)
Dom Kelly (16)
Sonny Baker (95)
Jake Lehmann (33)
Ben Brown Captain † (10)
Ben Mayes (21)
Scott Currie (44)
Tom Prest (24)
Liam Dawson (8)
Joe Weatherley (5)
Nick Gubbins (31)
Codi Yusuf (39)
Yorkshire
Previewed by Graham Hardcastle, ECB Reporters Network, supported by Rothesay
Captain: Jonny Bairstow
Head coach: Anthony McGrath
2025 finish: 7th
2025 leading run-scorer: Adam Lyth (1,173)
2025 leading wicket-taker: George Hill (51)
Key winter moves: Australia Test quick Jhye Richardson’s signing for April and May – potentially into June – has turned heads, while his Western Australia captain Sam Whiteman has penned a three-year all-format contract. Batter-keeper Whiteman, Doncaster-born, is local-qualified. Seam-bowling all-rounders Logan van Beek and Will Sutherland join Richardson as early-summer overseas signings. The returning Sutherland is only available for two June matches alongside his Blast commitments. Dawid Malan, Matt Milnes, Jonny Tattersall and Jordan Thompson have departed.
What we’re looking forward to seeing: Yorkshire, promoted in 2024, consolidated their Division One status last summer. After a slow start, three of their four wins came during the last seven matches, taking as many points as champions Nottinghamshire in that period. Now, it’s about pushing on to challenge the likes of Notts and Surrey over the full distance. They certainly have the firepower under captain Jonny Bairstow, with emerging talent such as George Hill, Will Luxton, Matthew Revis and James Wharton developing impressively.
Aiming to catch Test selectors’ eye: Top-order batter James Wharton, 25, recently earned his maiden Lions call-up on the curtailed Abu Dhabi trip. He has totalled 1,533 runs in 23 Rothesay County Championship matches across the last two seasons, including 2024 scores of 188 and 275. He contributed seven Division One half-centuries last season. An improved conversion rate could do wonders for him.
Final thought: A key factor in Yorkshire’s drive for success is always England availability. If Harry Brook and/or Joe Root can parachute in and rack up the runs ahead of the international summer beginning, then that could set the county on the right track for a first four-day title since 2015. That’s certainly the aim for coach Anthony McGrath, who tasted similar success in his Essex days.
Head-to-Head
Hampshire Men’s record in County Championship matches v Yorkshire:
Played
Won
Lost
Drawn
Abandoned
179
23
75
81
3
Last five meetings:
April 4-7 2025 | Utilita Bowl | Hampshire won by five wickets
July 25-28 2022 | Scarborough | Hampshire won by seven wickets
June 12-15 2022 | Utilita Bowl | Hampshire won by two wickets
Aug 30-Sept 2 2021 | Utilita Bowl | Match drawn
May 27-30 2019 | Headingley | Match drawn
Ticketing
Tickets for Yorkshire v Hampshire Men in the Rothesay County Championship are available at tickets.yorkshireccc.com.
Coverage
The match will be live streamed on the Yorkshire Cricket YouTube channel with commentary from Jonathan Doidge, Kevan James, and guests.
Fans can stay updated on the match via the Hampshire Cricket X/Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts, where regular score updates and match clips will be shared.
