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Hampshire will hope to begin the new season like they finished the last.
They won four of their final six games, drawing the other two, and only suffered one defeat all summer – against the champions at The Oval in late April.
Kyle Abbott has signed a new one-year deal to take him into his ninth season on the south coast, and perhaps one last tilt at that elusive four-day trophy, but Mohammad Abbas has moved to Notts and James Vince has hung up his whites after signing a T20-only contract with the club.
As the club’s leading run-scorer in the previous four Championship campaign...
