Hill said giving up Leicestershire’s captaincy has allowed him to refocus on his batting.
“I picked up my cricket bats in September and I went around to my mum and dad’s house and put them in the spare room,” he said.
“I didn’t have a single cricket bat in my house until January and in those few months I really reflected on the couple of years I had the captaincy.”
In his first competitive match since handing the captaincy to Peter Handscomb, Hill top-scored with 96 in the Foxes’ first innings in the 10-wicket win against Glamorgan in their opening County Championship match of the new season.
That knock was better than anything he managed last season as he amassed 431 red-ball runs, just under half of the 880 he scored in 2023.
“It took my hair, but luckily I’ve got it back this year, just like how my batting has come back,” Hill said.
“People ask if I’m sad that I gave the captaincy away, and I say no because it was the best for myself the team.
“Pete is a great guy and leader so there was somebody there to take the reins straight away.
“I’m really grateful they gave me the opportunity to do it, it was amazing but it was definitely the right time to give it up and to get back and just think about batting.”
Leicestershire play their first home match of the county season against Derbyshire, starting on Friday, 11 April.
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