Vince to focus on Hampshire’s T20 campaign in 2025

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Hampshire captain James Vince will not play red-ball cricket for the county this season and will instead focus on white-ball cricket, BBC Radio Solent reports.

The 33-year-old has been the county’s leading run scorer in the Championship for the past four seasons.

In 2025, however, he is set to concentrate on the county’s T20 Blast campaign as well as featuring in The Hundred.

The move will allow him to explore other franchise cricket options abroad.

Vince opted to miss Hampshire’s participation in the Global Super League in Guyana over the winter as he was contracted to play for Delhi Bulls in the Abu Dhabi T10 competition.

Since his debut in 2009, Vince has scored nearly 12,500 first-class runs for Hampshire at an average of over 41.

He has played in 13 Tests, 25 one-day internationals and 17 Twenty20 internationals, but last appeared for England in March 2023.

Hampshire are yet to comment.

Vince will be ‘sorely missed and not easy to replace’ – analysis

Kevan James, BBC Radio Solent’s Hampshire commentator:

If this is to be the end of James Vince’s red-ball career, he will leave having fallen just short of leading Hampshire to a County Championship title.

They finished second last season and third in each of the two previous seasons, while, in 2021, although they finished fourth in the end, they were just two balls and one wicket away from claiming a first title since 1973.

His volume of runs will be sorely missed and won’t be easy to replace.

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