{"id":678980,"date":"2026-01-07T02:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678980\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T02:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:37:20","slug":"jake-lehmann-excited-by-new-look-hampshire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678980\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Lehmann ‘excited’ by new-look Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian batter Jake Lehmann says he’s “excited” to work with Hampshire’s new-look coaching set-up and young players with “potential”.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 33-year-old has signed a two-year deal<\/a> to play all formats in 2026 and 2027. Lehmann helped South Australia win last season’s Sheffield Shield for the first time in 29 years.<\/p>\n

Hampshire have recently announced South African Russell Domingo as their new head coach<\/a>, supported by new bowling coach, former Scotland head coach Shane Burger, and ex-club captain Jimmy Adams who remains as batting coach.<\/p>\n

That coaching team will lead an exciting crop of players including opening bat Fletcha Middleton, 23, batters Ali Orr and Toby Albert, both 24, and all-rounder Tom Prest, 22, while academy prospect Ben Mayes, who debuted in August, only turned 18 in November.<\/p>\n

With the ball in hand John Turner, 24, and another right-arm pacer Sonny Baker, 22, have both received England white ball call-ups already.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited because I actually don’t know much about the coaching staff,” Lehmann told BBC Radio Solent. “I actually played against Jimmy, and he’s been over here to Australia in the T20 stuff.<\/p>\n

“Jimmy is a great coach so I’m excited to work with him in terms of a batting perspective, and the other things I’ve spoken the people about is the excitingness of these young players.<\/p>\n

“Everyone sees the growth and the potential in these kids, and I feel like I’ve been in a pretty lucky position in South Australia to help progress a few of their kids to win a Premiership and a Shield and one-dayers last year.<\/p>\n

“I’ve probably seen the cycle of how it can happen, and putting them in between a couple of senior players that are still around in [Liam] Dawson and [Ben] Brown and the likes of them. <\/p>\n

“Hopefully I can add to that and really put a nice mould of ages throughout the team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian batter Jake Lehmann says he’s “excited” to work with Hampshire’s new-look coaching set-up and young players with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-678980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115851496656597063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}