Adam Rouse

Who is Adam Rouse?

Adam Paul Rouse is a Zimbabwean-born English cricketer. Rouse is a right-handed batsman who fields as a wicket-keeper, though is versatile enough to play solely as a specialist batsman.

Born in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, Rouse moved to England when he was ten years old. Two years later, he became the youngest person to make a century in an adult league match at the age of twelve. Impressing during his teens in club cricket, Rouse was talent spotted by Hampshire, entering the county's academy and first playing for their second XI in 2008. In 2010, Rouse played two Youth Test matches for England's against Sri Lanka Under-19s, as well as five Youth One Day Internationals against the same opposition. In 2011, Rouse became the youngest English substitute fielder to take a catch during a Test match, when Rouse came on for the injured Stuart Broad and caught Kumar Sangakkara off the bowling of James Anderson, in what was the Rose Bowl's first hosting of a Test match. Later in the year, Rouse had his development contract renewed.

Rouse captained the Hampshire Second XI for the majority of the 2012 season, while the following season he made his senior debut for the county as a replacement for the injured Neil McKenzie in a first-class match against Kent in the 2013 County Championship at Canterbury. He scored 9 runs in Hampshire's first-innings, before being dismissed by Darren Stevens. He made his debut in List A cricket in that same season against a touring Bangladesh A team. In a match which Hampshire won by 9 runs, Rouse scored 7 runs before he was dismissed leg before by Sohag Gazi. With Adam Wheater and Michael Bates ahead of him in wicket-keeping duties, Rouse made no further appearances for Hampshire and was released by the county at the end of the 2013 season.