Stoneman agrees one year contract at Utilita Bowl

By Connor Steel

HAMPSHIRE CRICKET have announced that they have signed batsman Mark Stoneman on a formal one-year red ball contract for the upcoming cricketing summer of 2025; the former England international agreeing to continue his existing eighteen year career for an extra campaign as he attempts to push the club to their first ‘championship title’ since 1973.

The thirty-seven year old made his ‘debut’ in 2007 for Durham and spent ten seasons with the county; where he scored over 7,500 runs to propel them to several successes. The first fifty did come versus Hampshire as he marked a second appearance for the county, before a maiden century was recorded brilliantly against Surrey later in the same campaign.

Spells at Surrey, Yorkshire, and Middlesex followed with successes for Stoneman as he won the County Championship in 2018 at the Kia Oval. During the eighteen years as a batsman he has combined a total of over 14,000 runs with over 100 scores of fifty or more whilst he has converted these into his thirty-one centuries across domestic first class cricket.

An additional four thousand runs and seven hundreds have been added in List A matches, whilst this fine form secured a great run for the England International Test Squad using 2017. He achieved a century in the second match before he featured in that winter’s Ashes series versus Australia and New Zealand shortly afterwards as he further added 4 fifties.

Readers can explore full comments from Mark Stoneman and Hampshire director Giles White on this online article link; which will lead them to the county’s fixtures for the future 2025 campaign starting versus promoted Yorkshire on April 4.

PICTURED BY ALAMY (2JXB57F): Stoneman bats for England against strong Australia in the third test of 2017 Ashes.