Worcestershire County Cricket Club
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Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English
and Welsh
domestic cricket
structure, representing the historic county
of Worcestershire
. Its limited overs team is called the Worcestershire Royals, although unofficially the county is known by some fans as "the Pears".
The club is based at New Road
, Worcester
.
A match on 28 August 1844 at Hartlebury Common
between Worcestershire and Shropshire is the earliest known instance of a county team in Worcestershire. Two years later, XXII of Worcestershire played William Clarke's All-England Eleven
at Powick Hams.
The club owes much to Paul Foley who was from a family of iron masters in Stourbridge
. He also owned an agricultural estate at Stoke Edith
in Herefordshire
. He became involved with the club in the 1880s and helped to establish the Minor Counties Championship which began in 1895. Worcestershire shared the inaugural title with Durham and Norfolk before winning outright in 1896, 1897 and 1898.
With this success behind it, the club applied for first-class status and entered the County Championship
in 1899. Worcestershire CCC played its initial first-class match versus Yorkshire CCC on 4, 5 & 6 May 1899.
, who could rarely play after 1901. Weak bowling on perfect New Road pitches was responsible for this, but in 1907 when Tip Foster played regularly for three months their batting, considering the difficulty of the pitches, was among the finest of any county team. Their best performance that year was an innings of 567 on a somewhat difficult pitch against Fielder
and Blythe
of Kent CCC. After that year, however, the batting was never strong enough to make up for woefully weak bowling.
Worcestershire were so weak the club could not compete in the Championship in 1919, and their form in 1920 – when they lost three successive games by an innings and over 200 runs – was probably the worst of any county side. Their form, with one remarkable exception, was woeful up to the early thirties. Fred Root
, one of the first exponents of leg theory
bowling, took over 1,500 wickets for the county and was a Test
standard player in an otherwise fourth-rate team. In Cyril Walters
and the Nawab of Pataudi
the team acquired its first class batsmen since the Fosters, but both had to give up the game after playing brilliantly in 1933 – when the bowling was briefly very weak.
The emergence of Dick Howorth
and Reg Perks
in the 1930s, however, was built up so well that by 1947 Worcestershire were sufficiently strong in bowling to be competitive at county level even if their batting was not adequate for high honours. Roly Jenkins
, with 183 wickets in 1949, gave them briefly the best attack in county cricket, but they soon declined again and their form in the 1950s was indifferent at best.
Their first period of great success came in the 1960s under the Presidency of Sir George Dowty
and the captaincy of Don Kenyon
, when the county won two County Championship
s thanks to the achievements of such players as Norman Gifford
, Tom Graveney
, Jack Flavell
, Len Coldwell
and Basil D'Oliveira
. The following decade, the New Zealand
er Glenn Turner
was instrumental in Worcestershire's third championship. In the 1980s, the prodigious batting feats of Graeme Hick
and the arrival of Ian Botham
paved the way for two more county titles.
In 2006, Worcestershire won promotion to the first division of the Championship on the last day of the season by beating Northamptonshire
while their rivals for second promotion spot, Essex
, lost to Leicestershire
. However, their 2007 season began badly, including an innings-and-260-run loss
to Yorkshire
, Worcestershire's worst innings defeat since 1934.
A flood-hit
season inflicted serious financial damage, and on-field results in the Championship gave little cheer as Worcestershire were relegated. However, in the Pro40 First Division things were very different, and victory over Gloucestershire
in mid-September brought the title to New Road, the county's first trophy since 1994.
2008 saw Worcestershire promoted back to Division One. 2009, however, proved disastrous in first-class cricket, with Worcestershire finishing bottom of the First Division without a single victory, the first time the county had failed to win a Championship match since 1928.
Following a win on the last day of the season against Sussex, Worcestershire were promoted back to Division One in 2010
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Source: Worcestershire Royals
.
Haden Hill Park in Old Hill
, West Midlands
, was due to host a Benson & Hedges Cup
match in 1988. However, this was abandoned without a ball being bowled and no other major cricket has been played at the ground, so it is not included in the table.
Qualification – 20000 runs http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/England/Firstclass/Worcestershire/Batting_Records/Most_Career_Runs.html
Most first-class wickets for Worcestershire
Qualification – 1000 wickets http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/England/Firstclass/Worcestershire/Bowling_Records/Most_Career_Wickets.html
status and admission into the English
County Championship
(in 1899). The name came from the fact that no fewer than seven brothers from this one family played for Worcestershire during this period, three of whom captained the club at some point.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and Welsh
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
domestic cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
structure, representing the historic county
Historic counties of England
The historic counties of England are subdivisions of England established for administration by the Normans and in most cases based on earlier Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and shires...
of Worcestershire
Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...
. Its limited overs team is called the Worcestershire Royals, although unofficially the county is known by some fans as "the Pears".
The club is based at New Road
New Road, Worcester
New Road, Worcester, England, has been the home cricket ground of Worcestershire County Cricket Club since 1896. Immediately to the northwest is a road called New Road, part of the A44, hence the name.- Overview :...
, Worcester
Worcester
The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the...
.
Honours
- County Championship (5) – 1964, 1965, 1974, 1988, 1989
- Division Two (1) – 2003
- Gillette/NatWest/C&G/Friends Provident Trophy (1) – 1994
- Sunday/Pro 40 League (4) – 1971, 1987, 1988, 2007
- Twenty20 Cup (0) -
- Benson & Hedges Cup (1) – 1991
- Minor Counties Championship (3) – 1896, 1897, 1898; shared (1) – 1895
Second XI honours
- Second XI Championship (3) - 1962, 1963, 1982; shared (0) -
- Second XI Trophy (1) - 2004
Earliest cricket
Cricket must have reached Worcestershire by the 18th century but surprisingly the earliest reference to cricket in the county is as late as 1829.A match on 28 August 1844 at Hartlebury Common
Hartlebury Common
Hartlebury Common is an area of lowland heath in north Worcestershire, England, situated just outside the town of Stourport-on-Severn. It covers an area of 90 hectares...
between Worcestershire and Shropshire is the earliest known instance of a county team in Worcestershire. Two years later, XXII of Worcestershire played William Clarke's All-England Eleven
All-England Eleven
In cricket, the term All-England has been used for various non-international teams that have been formed for short-term purposes since the 1739 English cricket season and it indicates that the "Rest of England" is playing against, say, MCC or an individual county team...
at Powick Hams.
Origin of the club
Worcestershire CCC was formed on 4 March 1865 at the Star Hotel in Worcester.The club owes much to Paul Foley who was from a family of iron masters in Stourbridge
Stourbridge
Stourbridge is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands of England. Historically part of Worcestershire, Stourbridge was a centre of glass making, and today includes the suburbs of Amblecote, Lye, Norton, Oldswinford, Pedmore, Wollaston, Wollescote and Wordsley The...
. He also owned an agricultural estate at Stoke Edith
Stoke Edith
Stoke Edith is a village in the English county of Herefordshire, situated on a road leading from Hereford to Ledbury. The manor belonged formerly to the Wallwynes, Milwaters and Lingen families....
in Herefordshire
Herefordshire
Herefordshire is a historic and ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire" NUTS 2 region. It also forms a unitary district known as the...
. He became involved with the club in the 1880s and helped to establish the Minor Counties Championship which began in 1895. Worcestershire shared the inaugural title with Durham and Norfolk before winning outright in 1896, 1897 and 1898.
With this success behind it, the club applied for first-class status and entered the County Championship
County Championship
The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
in 1899. Worcestershire CCC played its initial first-class match versus Yorkshire CCC on 4, 5 & 6 May 1899.
The first-class county
The inclusion of Worcestershire increased the County Championship to 15 teams. At first they performed moderately despite the superb batting of Tip FosterTip Foster
Reginald Erskine Foster, nicknamed Tip Foster, commonly designated R. E. Foster in sporting literature was an English cricketer and football player...
, who could rarely play after 1901. Weak bowling on perfect New Road pitches was responsible for this, but in 1907 when Tip Foster played regularly for three months their batting, considering the difficulty of the pitches, was among the finest of any county team. Their best performance that year was an innings of 567 on a somewhat difficult pitch against Fielder
Arthur Fielder
Arthur Fielder was the leading fast bowler in English cricket for the decade before World War I and one of the key contributors to Kent's four County Championship successes between 1906 and 1913.In some ways the founder of modern fast bowling, Fielder was the first fast bowler to rely on swing...
and Blythe
Colin Blythe
Colin Blythe , also known as Charlie Blythe, was a Kent and England left arm spinner who is regarded as one of the finest bowlers of the period between 1900 and 1914 - sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age" of cricket.-Career:Blythe first played...
of Kent CCC. After that year, however, the batting was never strong enough to make up for woefully weak bowling.
Worcestershire were so weak the club could not compete in the Championship in 1919, and their form in 1920 – when they lost three successive games by an innings and over 200 runs – was probably the worst of any county side. Their form, with one remarkable exception, was woeful up to the early thirties. Fred Root
Fred Root
Charles Frederick Root was an English cricketer who played for England in 1926 and for Derbyshire between 1910 to 1920 and for Worcestershire between 1921 and 1932.- Early career :...
, one of the first exponents of leg theory
Leg theory
Leg theory is a bowling tactic in the sport of cricket. The term leg theory is somewhat archaic and seldom used any more, but the basic tactic still plays a part in modern cricket....
bowling, took over 1,500 wickets for the county and was a Test
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
standard player in an otherwise fourth-rate team. In Cyril Walters
Cyril Walters
Cyril Frederick Walters was a Welsh cricketer who had most of his success after leaving Glamorgan to do duty as captain-secretary of Worcestershire. In this role he developed his batting to such an extent that for a brief period he became an England regular and even captained them in one match as...
and the Nawab of Pataudi
Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
Iftikhar Ali Khan , sometimes I.A.K. Pataudi was the 8th Nawab of Pataudi and captain of the Indian cricket team. He was one of few cricketers to have played for two countries, having also played for the English Test side...
the team acquired its first class batsmen since the Fosters, but both had to give up the game after playing brilliantly in 1933 – when the bowling was briefly very weak.
The emergence of Dick Howorth
Dick Howorth
Dick Howorth was an English all-rounder for Worcestershire between 1933 and 1951. Chiefly remembered as a left-arm spin bowler, Howorth also occasionally bowled medium pace and was a capable hard-hitting left-handed batsman...
and Reg Perks
Reg Perks
Reginald Thomas David "Reg" Perks was an English cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1939, and was the mainstay of Worcestershire's bowling for a long period from the middle 1930s until the middle 1950s...
in the 1930s, however, was built up so well that by 1947 Worcestershire were sufficiently strong in bowling to be competitive at county level even if their batting was not adequate for high honours. Roly Jenkins
Roly Jenkins
Roly Jenkins was an English cricketer, almost exclusively for Worcestershire as a leg spinner in the period immediately after World War II...
, with 183 wickets in 1949, gave them briefly the best attack in county cricket, but they soon declined again and their form in the 1950s was indifferent at best.
Their first period of great success came in the 1960s under the Presidency of Sir George Dowty
George Dowty
-Early life:Dowty was born in Pershore, Worcestershire in 1901. He was sent to the Royal Grammar School Worcester after losing his right eye at the age of 12 playing around making a firework....
and the captaincy of Don Kenyon
Don Kenyon
Donald Kenyon was an English cricketer, who played in eight Tests for England from 1951 to 1955. He captained Worcestershire between 1959 and 1967....
, when the county won two County Championship
County Championship
The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
s thanks to the achievements of such players as Norman Gifford
Norman Gifford
Norman Gifford was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner...
, Tom Graveney
Tom Graveney
Thomas William Graveney in Riding Mill, Northumberland, is a former English cricketer and was the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club for 2004/5. He went to Bristol Grammar School...
, Jack Flavell
Jack Flavell
Jack Flavell was an English cricketer who played in four Tests for England from 1961 to 1964. His county cricket career was spent with Worcestershire, with whom Flavell won two County Championship titles...
, Len Coldwell
Len Coldwell
Len Coldwell was an English cricketer, who played in seven Tests for England from 1962 to 1964. Coldwell was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who was, for a few years in the early to mid-1960s, half of a respected and feared new-ball partnership in English county cricket...
and Basil D'Oliveira
Basil D'Oliveira
Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE , known affectionately around the world as "Dolly", was a South African-born English cricketer. D'Oliveira was classified as 'coloured' under the apartheid regime, and hence barred from first-class cricket, resulting in his emigration to England...
. The following decade, the New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
er Glenn Turner
Glenn Turner
Glenn Maitland Turner played cricket for New Zealand and was one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen. He is the current head of the New Zealand Cricket selection panel....
was instrumental in Worcestershire's third championship. In the 1980s, the prodigious batting feats of Graeme Hick
Graeme Hick
Graeme Ashley Hick MBE is a Zimbabwean-born cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 he surpassed Graham Gooch's record for...
and the arrival of Ian Botham
Ian Botham
Sir Ian Terence Botham OBE is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well-known by his nickname "Beefy"...
paved the way for two more county titles.
In 2006, Worcestershire won promotion to the first division of the Championship on the last day of the season by beating Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Northamptonshire. Its limited overs team is called the Northants Steelbacks. The traditional club colour is Maroon. During the...
while their rivals for second promotion spot, Essex
Essex County Cricket Club
Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles, their team colours this season are blue.The club plays most of its home games...
, lost to Leicestershire
Leicestershire County Cricket Club
Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Leicestershire. It has also been representative of the county of Rutland....
. However, their 2007 season began badly, including an innings-and-260-run loss
The result in cricket
The result in a game of cricket may be a win for one of the two teams playing, a draw or a tie. In the case of a limited overs game, the game can also end with no result...
to Yorkshire
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....
, Worcestershire's worst innings defeat since 1934.
A flood-hit
2007 United Kingdom floods
The 2007 United Kingdom floods were a series of destructive floods that occurred in various areas across the country during the summer of 2007. The most severe floods occurred across Northern Ireland on 12 June; East Yorkshire and The Midlands on 15 June; Yorkshire, The Midlands, Gloucestershire,...
season inflicted serious financial damage, and on-field results in the Championship gave little cheer as Worcestershire were relegated. However, in the Pro40 First Division things were very different, and victory over Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....
in mid-September brought the title to New Road, the county's first trophy since 1994.
2008 saw Worcestershire promoted back to Division One. 2009, however, proved disastrous in first-class cricket, with Worcestershire finishing bottom of the First Division without a single victory, the first time the county had failed to win a Championship match since 1928.
Following a win on the last day of the season against Sussex, Worcestershire were promoted back to Division One in 2010
Squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.| No. | Name | Nat | Birth date | Batting Style | Bowling Style | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batsmen | ||||||
| 27 | Daryl Mitchell Daryl Mitchell (cricketer) Daryl Keith Henry Mitchell is an English cricketer. Primarily a right-handed batsman who often opens the innings, Mitchell also bowls right-arm medium pace. He currently plays first class cricket for Worcestershire... |
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25 November 1983 (age 28) | Right-handed | Right arm medium pace | Club captain Captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player... |
| 3 | Vikram Solanki Vikram Solanki Vikram Singh Solanki is an Indian-born English cricketer, who plays county cricket for Worcestershire. In 2007, he became the 24th Worcestershire batsman to pass 10,000 career runs for the county. He also captained Worcestershire from 2005 to 2010, before resigning mid-season... |
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1 April 1976 (age 35) | Right-handed | Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
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| 5 | Alexei Kervezee Alexei Kervezee Alexei Nicolaas Kervezee is a Namibian -born Dutch cricketer.Kervezee rose rapidly and smartly through age-group cricket in the Netherlands, and in late July 2005, aged only 15, he made his first-class debut for his national team against Scotland in the Intercontinental Cup... |
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11 September 1989 (age 22) | Right-handed | Right arm medium pace | |
| 8 | Moeen Ali Moeen Ali Moeen Munir Ali is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and off-spin bowler who played county cricket for Warwickshire before moving to Worcestershire after the 2006 season... |
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18 June 1987 (age 24) | Left-handed | Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
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| 30 | David Wheeldon David Wheeldon David Wheeldon is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and leg-break bowler who plays for Worcestershire. He was born in Staffordshire.... |
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12 April 1989 (age 22) | Left-handed | Right arm leg break Leg break A leg break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. A delivery of a right-handed leg spin bowler. Leg breaks are also colloquially known as leggies or wrist spinners, as the wrist is the body part which is primarily used to impart spin on the ball, as opposed to the fingers in the case of... |
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| 26 | Jack Manuel Jack Manuel Jack Kenneth Manuel is an English cricketer. Manuel is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire and educated at Wilnecote High School in Tamworth.... |
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13 February 1991 (age 20) | Left-handed | Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
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| 19 | Matthew Pardoe Matthew Pardoe Matthew Graham Pardoe is an English cricketer. A left-handed opening/middle order batsman, he plays for Worcestershire.In Birmingham league cricket, Pardoe plays for Kidderminster Victoria... |
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5 January 1991 (age 21) | Left-handed | Left arm medium pace | |
| 20 | Neil Pinner Neil Pinner Neil Douglas Pinner is an English cricketer. Pinner is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born in Wordsley, Worcestershire and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester.... |
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28 September 1990 (age 21) | Right-handed | Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
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| All-rounders | ||||||
| 16 | James Cameron |  |
31 January 1986 (age 26) | Left-handed | Right arm medium pace | |
| 22 | Aneesh Kapil Aneesh Kapil Aneesh Kapil is an English cricketer who currently plays for Worcestershire County Cricket Club. A right handed batsman and right hand fast-medium pace bowler he made his first class debut for Worcestershire against Sussex in August 2011.-County career:Kapil's first competitive appearance for... |
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3 August 1993 (age 18) | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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| 23 | Joseph Leach | |
30 October 1990 (age 21) | Right-handed | Right arm medium pace | |
| 18 | Chris Russell | |
16 February 1989 (age 22) | Right-handed | Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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| Wicket-keeper | ||||||
| 10 | Ben Cox Ben Cox Oliver Benjamin Cox is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Worcestershire.Cox has been associated with Worcestershire for some years, having played at Under-13, Under-15 and Under-17 level, although not originally as a wicket-keeper.He captained the Under-17 side against Somerset... |
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2 February 1992 (age 20) | Right-handed | — | |
| Bowlers | ||||||
| 9 | Alan Richardson | |
6 May 1975 (age 36) | Right-handed | Right arm medium pace | |
| 14 | Gareth Andrew Gareth Andrew Gareth Mark Andrew is an English cricketer who plays for Worcestershire. He is a fast medium bowler and left-handed batsman. He toured Australia with the England Under-17 team in 1997, made his debut for the Somerset 2nd XI in 1999 and played for the Somerset Cricket Board in the Nat West Bank... |
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27 December 1983 (age 28) | Left-handed | Right arm medium-fast Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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| 17 | Chris Whelan Chris Whelan Christopher David Whelan is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium bowler, who has represented Middlesex and Worcestershire... |
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8 May 1986 (age 25) | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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| Saeed Ajmal Saeed Ajmal Saeed Ajmal ; born 14 October 1977) is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a right-arm off-spin bowler who also uses the Doosra to good effect.-Early life and domestic cricket:... |
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14 October 1977 (age 34) | Left-handed | off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
Overseas player | |
| 24 | Matt Mason |  |
20 March 1974 (age 37) | Right-handed | Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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| 25 | Richard Jones | |
6 November 1986 (age 25) | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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| 28 | Shaaiq Choudhry Shaaiq Choudhry Shaaiq Choudhry is an English cricketer who currently plays for Worcestershire County Cricket Club... |
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3 November 1985 (age 26) | Right-handed | Right arm leg break Leg break A leg break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. A delivery of a right-handed leg spin bowler. Leg breaks are also colloquially known as leggies or wrist spinners, as the wrist is the body part which is primarily used to impart spin on the ball, as opposed to the fingers in the case of... |
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| 11 | Jack Shantry Jack Shantry Jack David Shantry is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Worcestershire.Shantry played for Shropshire Under-17s as early as July 2004, scoring 64 at the top of the order against Yorkshire Under-17s.... |
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29 January 1988 (age 24) | Left-handed | Left arm medium pace | |
| 22 | David Lucas David Lucas (cricketer) David Scott Lucas is an English first-class cricketer, who currently plays for Worcestershire County Cricket Club. He previously played for Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Northamptonshire... |
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19 August 1978 (age 33) | Right-handed | Left arm medium-fast Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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Source: Worcestershire Royals
Notable past players
Batsmen Tip Foster Tip Foster Reginald Erskine Foster, nicknamed Tip Foster, commonly designated R. E. Foster in sporting literature was an English cricketer and football player... (1899–1912) Frederick Bowley Frederick Bowley (Worcestershire cricketer) Frederick Lloyd Bowley was an English cricketer who played county cricket for Worcestershire from the 1890s to the 1920s. He also represented the Players against the Gentlemen on four occasions... (1899–1923) Harold Gibbons Harold Gibbons (cricketer) Harold Harry Ian Haywood Gibbons , sometimes known as "Doc" Gibbons, was an English cricketer: a right-handed opening batsman and occasional right-arm bowler who was the first man to win a county cap for Worcestershire, as well as a reliable fielder in the deep.Gibbons made his first-class debut... (1927–46) Nawab of Pataudi, Sr Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi Iftikhar Ali Khan , sometimes I.A.K. Pataudi was the 8th Nawab of Pataudi and captain of the Indian cricket team. He was one of few cricketers to have played for two countries, having also played for the English Test side... (1932–38) George Dews George Dews George Dews was an English cricketer and footballer. As a cricketer, he was a right-handed batsman who played for Worcestershire between 1946 and 1961. He was also an excellent fielder: his 353 catches for the county were a record at the time... (1946–61) Don Kenyon Don Kenyon Donald Kenyon was an English cricketer, who played in eight Tests for England from 1951 to 1955. He captained Worcestershire between 1959 and 1967.... (1946–67) Bob Broadbent Bob Broadbent Robert Gillespie Broadbent, known as Bob Broadbent was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Worcestershire between 1950 and 1963. He was capped by the county in 1951, and ten years later received a benefit season which raised £5,481... (1950–63) Dick Richardson Dick Richardson For the Welsh boxer see Dick Richardson Dick Richardson is an English former cricketer, who played in one Test for England in 1957. His county cricket career was spent entirely with Worcestershire.The cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted "Richardson's Test career was brief but historic... (1952–67) Ron Headley Ron Headley Ronald George Alphonso Headley is a former West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests and one ODI in 1973. An opening batsman, in first-class cricket he scored 21,695 runs at an average of 31.12, with 32 hundreds and a highest score of 187.Headley spent most of his career in England, playing... (1958–74) Tom Graveney Tom Graveney Thomas William Graveney in Riding Mill, Northumberland, is a former English cricketer and was the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club for 2004/5. He went to Bristol Grammar School... (1961–70) Alan Ormrod Alan Ormrod Joseph Alan Ormrod is a former English first class cricketer who played with Worcestershire.... (1962–80) Glenn Turner Glenn Turner Glenn Maitland Turner played cricket for New Zealand and was one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen. He is the current head of the New Zealand Cricket selection panel.... (1967–82) John Parker John Parker (cricketer) John Morton Parker is a former New Zealand cricketer. He played 36 Test matches and 24 ODIs for New Zealand, also serving as interim captain in the third Test against Pakistan in 1976/77. However, his career was largely unsuccessful, and a string of poor scores in the late 1970s saw him dropped... (1971–75) Younis Ahmed Younis Ahmed Mohammad Younis Ahmed is a Pakistani former cricketer who played in 4 Tests and 2 ODIs from 1969 to 1987... (1979–83) Tim Curtis Tim Curtis Tim Curtis is a former England cricketer. A right-handed batsman, Curtis was a prolific scorer for Worcestershire and county captain between 1992 and 1995... (1979–97) Tom Moody Tom Moody Thomas Masson Moody is a former Australian cricketer and coach of the Sri Lankan cricket team. Today he is the coach for the IPL team Kings XI Punjab... (1991–99) Graeme Hick Graeme Hick Graeme Ashley Hick MBE is a Zimbabwean-born cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 he surpassed Graham Gooch's record for... (1984–2008) All-rounders Roly Jenkins Roly Jenkins Roly Jenkins was an English cricketer, almost exclusively for Worcestershire as a leg spinner in the period immediately after World War II... (1938–58) Bob Wyatt Bob Wyatt Robert "Bob" Elliott Storey Wyatt was an English cricket player. He played for Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and the English cricket team.... (1946–51) Martin Horton Martin Horton Martin John Horton was an English cricketer, who played in two Tests in 1959. He was born in Worcester, England, and played the bulk of his first-class cricket for his native county.... (1952–66) Basil D'Oliveira Basil D'Oliveira Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE , known affectionately around the world as "Dolly", was a South African-born English cricketer. D'Oliveira was classified as 'coloured' under the apartheid regime, and hence barred from first-class cricket, resulting in his emigration to England... (1964–80) Imran Khan (1971–76) Kapil Dev Kapil Dev Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj , better known as Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup... (1984–85) Ian Botham Ian Botham Sir Ian Terence Botham OBE is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well-known by his nickname "Beefy"... (1987–91) David Leatherdale David Leatherdale David Antony Leatherdale is a former English cricketer. He played county cricket for Worcestershire.... (1988–2003) Andrew Hall Andrew Hall Andrew James Hall is a South African cricketer and a former member of the South African cricket team . He is an all-rounder who bowls fast-medium pace, and has been used as both an opening batsman and in the lower order. Prior to making it on the South African first class cricket scene he played... (2003–04) Chris Gayle Chris Gayle Christopher Henry "Chris" Gayle is a Jamaican cricketer who currently plays international cricket for the West Indies. He captained the West Indies' side from 2007 to 2010. He plays domestic cricket for Jamaica, and has also represented Worcestershire, the Western Warriors and the Kolkata Knight... (2005) Shakib Al Hasan Shakib Al Hasan Shakib Al Hasan is a Bangladeshi international cricketer of the national team. He is an all-rounder, batting left-handed in the middle order and bowling slow left-arm orthodox. He represented Bangladesh at under-19 level, 18 Youth One Day Internationals between 2005 and 2006... (2010–2011) |
Wicket-keepers Ernest Perry Ernest Perry (cricketer) Ernest Harvey Perry was an English cricketer who played ten first-class games for Worcestershire between 1933 and 1946... (1933–1946) Hugo Yarnold Hugo Yarnold Henry Yarnold, known as Hugo, who was born at Worcester on 6 July 1917 and died in a road accident at Leamington Spa on 13 August 1974, was an English first-class cricketer who became a Test cricket umpire.... (1938–55) Roy Booth Roy Booth Roy Booth was an English first-class cricketer, who played for both Yorkshire and Worcestershire.... (1956–70) Steve Rhodes Steve Rhodes Steve Rhodes is a former English cricketer. He was best known as a wicket-keeper, but was also a useful number six or seven batsman, making twelve first-class centuries.... (1985–2004) Bowlers George Alfred Wilson George Alfred Wilson George Alfred Wilson was an English cricketer, a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed batsman who was the first man to take a wicket for Worcestershire County Cricket Club after they attained first-class status for the 1899 season.Born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, Wilson opened the bowling in... (1899–1906) John Keene John Keene (cricketer) John William Keene was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Surrey, Worcestershire and Scotland around the turn of the 20th century. Almost exclusively a bowler, his highest score in 36 innings was a mere 12... (1903–04) Fred Root Fred Root Charles Frederick Root was an English cricketer who played for England in 1926 and for Derbyshire between 1910 to 1920 and for Worcestershire between 1921 and 1932.- Early career :... (1921–32) Reg Perks Reg Perks Reginald Thomas David "Reg" Perks was an English cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1939, and was the mainstay of Worcestershire's bowling for a long period from the middle 1930s until the middle 1950s... (1930–55) Dick Howorth Dick Howorth Dick Howorth was an English all-rounder for Worcestershire between 1933 and 1951. Chiefly remembered as a left-arm spin bowler, Howorth also occasionally bowled medium pace and was a capable hard-hitting left-handed batsman... (1933–51) Jack Flavell Jack Flavell Jack Flavell was an English cricketer who played in four Tests for England from 1961 to 1964. His county cricket career was spent with Worcestershire, with whom Flavell won two County Championship titles... (1949–67) Len Coldwell Len Coldwell Len Coldwell was an English cricketer, who played in seven Tests for England from 1962 to 1964. Coldwell was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who was, for a few years in the early to mid-1960s, half of a respected and feared new-ball partnership in English county cricket... (1955–69) Norman Gifford Norman Gifford Norman Gifford was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner... (1960–82) Graham Dilley Graham Dilley Graham Roy Dilley was an English cricketer, whose main role was as a fast bowler. He played first-class cricket for Kent and Worcestershire, and appeared in 41 test matches and 36 ODIs for England... (1987–92) Glenn McGrath Glenn McGrath Glenn Donald McGrath AM , nicknamed "Pigeon", is a former Australian cricket player. He is one of the most highly regarded fast-medium pace bowlers in cricketing history, and a leading contributor to Australia's domination of world cricket from the mid-1990s to the early 21st century... (2000) Andy Bichel Andy Bichel Andrew John Bichel is a retired Australian cricket player and was the bowling coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders for the 2009 Indian Premier League.... (2001–04) Shoaib Akhtar Shoaib Akhtar Shoaib Akhtar is a former Pakistani right arm fast bowler in cricket, who is regarded as the fastest bowler in the history of cricket. He set an official world record by achieving the fastest delivery, when he clocked in at 161.3 km/h in his bowling speed, twice at a cricket match against... (2005) Chaminda Vaas Chaminda Vaas Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas , usually known as Chaminda Vaas, is a Sri Lankan cricketer is regarded as the best fast bowler to have come out of the country - he has been described as the 'most penetrative and successful new-ball bowler Sri Lanka have had'... (2005) Zaheer Khan Zaheer Khan Zaheer Khan is an Indian cricketer who has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000. A left arm fast bowler considered as the best of the Indian fast bowling attack, Zaheer is known for his ability to swing the ball both ways, and as a batsman also holds the record for the highest Test... (2006) Kabir Ali Kabir Ali Kabir Ali is an English cricketer who currently plays for Hampshire in the English County Championship. A right-arm seam bowler and useful lower-order right-handed batsman, outside cricket he works as a model... (1999–2010) Richard Illingworth Richard Illingworth Richard Illingworth is an English former cricketer, who is currently a first-class cricket umpire. The bulk of his domestic cricketing career occurred with Worcestershire, although he had a spell with Derbyshire, and overseas with Natal... |
County caps awarded
- Note: Worcestershire no longer award traditional caps, instead awarding "colours" on a player's ChampionshipCounty ChampionshipThe County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
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Grounds
This section gives details of every venue at which Worcestershire have hosted at least one match at first-class or List A level. Figures show the number of Worcestershire matches only played at the grounds listed, and do not include abandoned games. Note that the locations given are current; in some cases grounds now in other counties lie within the traditional boundaries of Worcestershire. The table is correct to the end of the 2009 season2009 English cricket season
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Haden Hill Park in Old Hill
Old Hill
Old Hill is a locality in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell in West Midlands, England. It is a district of Cradley Heath.-General description:...
, West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
, was due to host a Benson & Hedges Cup
Benson & Hedges Cup
The Benson & Hedges Cup was a one-day cricket competition for first-class counties in England and Wales that was held from 1972 to 2002, one of cricket's longest sponsorship deals....
match in 1988. However, this was abandoned without a ball being bowled and no other major cricket has been played at the ground, so it is not included in the table.
| Name of ground | Location | First-class span | Worcs f-c matches | List A span | Worcs LA matches |
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| Bournville Cricket Ground Bournville Cricket Ground The Bournville Cricket Ground in Birmingham, England was used for first-class cricket by Worcestershire on two occasions. In 1910 they drew with Essex, and the following year they beat Surrey by two wickets.... |
Bournville Bournville Bournville is a model village on the south side of Birmingham, England, best known for its connections with the Cadbury family and chocolate – including a dark chocolate bar branded "Bournville". It is also a ward within the council constituency of Selly Oak and home to the Bournville Centre... , Birmingham Birmingham Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a... |
1910–1911 | 2 | N/A | 0 |
| Chain Wire Club Ground Chain Wire Club Ground The Chain Wire Club Ground in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire was used for first-class cricket by Worcestershire County Cricket Club on a single occasion: a County Championship match against Lancashire in 1980, which Worcestershire won by an innings and 153 runs... |
Stourport-on-Severn Stourport-on-Severn Stourport-on-Severn, often shortened to Stourport, is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of North Worcestershire, England, a few miles to the south of Kidderminster and down stream on the River Severn from Bewdley... , Worcestershire |
1980 | 1 | N/A | 0 |
| Chester Road North Ground Chester Road North Ground The Chester Road North Ground, often referred to simply as Chester Road, is a cricket ground in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. It is the home of Kidderminster Victoria Cricket Club, and is currently used for Worcestershire County Cricket Club's Second XI matches... |
Kidderminster Kidderminster Kidderminster is a town, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately seventeen miles south-west of Birmingham city centre and approximately fifteen miles north of Worcester city centre. The 2001 census recorded a population of 55,182 in the town... , Worcestershire |
1921–2008 | 68 | 1969–2008 | 5 |
| Evesham Cricket Club Ground Evesham Cricket Club Ground The Evesham Cricket Club Ground in Evesham, Worcestershire was used for first-class cricket by Worcestershire County Cricket Club on a single occasion: a County Championship match against Gloucestershire in 1951, which Worcestershire won by six wickets... |
Evesham Evesham Evesham is a market town and a civil parish in the Local Authority District of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England with a population of 22,000. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon... , Worcestershire |
1951 | 1 | N/A | 0 |
| New Road New Road, Worcester New Road, Worcester, England, has been the home cricket ground of Worcestershire County Cricket Club since 1896. Immediately to the northwest is a road called New Road, part of the A44, hence the name.- Overview :... (County Ground) |
Worcester Worcester The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the... |
1899–2009 | 1,072 | 1963–2009 | 425 |
| Racecourse Ground Racecourse Ground, Hereford The Racecourse Ground is a cricket ground in Hereford, England. The two ends are known as the Pavilion End and the Racecourse End.Worcestershire County Cricket Club played five first-class matches here between 1919 and 1983, and one other first-class game was also staged in 1919... |
Hereford Hereford Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, southwest of Worcester, and northwest of Gloucester... |
1919–1983 | 5 | 1983–1987 | 3 |
| Seth Somers Park Seth Somers Park Seth Somers Park in Halesowen, West Midlands was used for first-class cricket by Worcestershire on two occasions in the 1960s, at which time Halesowen lay in Worcestershire... |
Halesowen Halesowen Halesowen is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England.The population, as measured by the United Kingdom Census 2001, was 55,273... , West Midlands |
1964–1969 | 2 | N/A | 0 |
| Tipton Road Tipton Road The Tipton Road cricket ground in Dudley, England was used for first-class cricket by Worcestershire CCC on 88 occasions between 1911 and 1971. The county also staged 14 List A games there between 1969 and 1977, all in the Sunday League, as well as a number of Second XI matches.One match of the... |
Dudley Dudley Dudley is a large town in the West Midlands county of England. At the 2001 census , the Dudley Urban Sub Area had a population of 194,919, making it the 26th largest settlement in England, the second largest town in the United Kingdom behind Reading, and the largest settlement in the UK without... , West Midlands |
1911–1971 | 88 | 1969–1977 | 14 |
| War Memorial Athletic Ground War Memorial Athletic Ground The War Memorial Athletic Ground, often referred to as simply the War Memorial Ground, is a sports ground in the Amblecote region of Stourbridge, West Midlands, England... |
Stourbridge Stourbridge Stourbridge is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands of England. Historically part of Worcestershire, Stourbridge was a centre of glass making, and today includes the suburbs of Amblecote, Lye, Norton, Oldswinford, Pedmore, Wollaston, Wollescote and Wordsley The... , West Midlands West Midlands (county) The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The... |
1905–1981 | 61 | 1969–1982 | 3 |
| Worcester Royal Grammar School Ground (Flagge Meadow) |
Worcester Worcester The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the... |
N/A | 0 | 2007 | 1 |
First-class
Most first-class runs for WorcestershireQualification – 20000 runs http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/England/Firstclass/Worcestershire/Batting_Records/Most_Career_Runs.html
| Player | Runs |
|---|---|
| Don Kenyon Don Kenyon Donald Kenyon was an English cricketer, who played in eight Tests for England from 1951 to 1955. He captained Worcestershire between 1959 and 1967.... |
34490 |
| Graeme Hick Graeme Hick Graeme Ashley Hick MBE is a Zimbabwean-born cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 he surpassed Graham Gooch's record for... |
31149 |
| Glenn Turner Glenn Turner Glenn Maitland Turner played cricket for New Zealand and was one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen. He is the current head of the New Zealand Cricket selection panel.... |
22298 |
| Alan Ormrod Alan Ormrod Joseph Alan Ormrod is a former English first class cricketer who played with Worcestershire.... |
21753 |
| Harold Gibbons Harold Gibbons (cricketer) Harold Harry Ian Haywood Gibbons , sometimes known as "Doc" Gibbons, was an English cricketer: a right-handed opening batsman and occasional right-arm bowler who was the first man to win a county cap for Worcestershire, as well as a reliable fielder in the deep.Gibbons made his first-class debut... |
20918 |
| Frederick Bowley Frederick Bowley (Worcestershire cricketer) Frederick Lloyd Bowley was an English cricketer who played county cricket for Worcestershire from the 1890s to the 1920s. He also represented the Players against the Gentlemen on four occasions... |
20750 |
| Ron Headley Ron Headley Ronald George Alphonso Headley is a former West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests and one ODI in 1973. An opening batsman, in first-class cricket he scored 21,695 runs at an average of 31.12, with 32 hundreds and a highest score of 187.Headley spent most of his career in England, playing... |
20712 |
| Tim Curtis Tim Curtis Tim Curtis is a former England cricketer. A right-handed batsman, Curtis was a prolific scorer for Worcestershire and county captain between 1992 and 1995... |
20155 |
Most first-class wickets for Worcestershire
Qualification – 1000 wickets http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/England/Firstclass/Worcestershire/Bowling_Records/Most_Career_Wickets.html
| Player | Wickets |
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| Reg Perks Reg Perks Reginald Thomas David "Reg" Perks was an English cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1939, and was the mainstay of Worcestershire's bowling for a long period from the middle 1930s until the middle 1950s... |
2143 |
| Norman Gifford Norman Gifford Norman Gifford was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner... |
1615 |
| Jack Flavell Jack Flavell Jack Flavell was an English cricketer who played in four Tests for England from 1961 to 1964. His county cricket career was spent with Worcestershire, with whom Flavell won two County Championship titles... |
1507 |
| Fred Root Fred Root Charles Frederick Root was an English cricketer who played for England in 1926 and for Derbyshire between 1910 to 1920 and for Worcestershire between 1921 and 1932.- Early career :... |
1387 |
| Dick Howorth Dick Howorth Dick Howorth was an English all-rounder for Worcestershire between 1933 and 1951. Chiefly remembered as a left-arm spin bowler, Howorth also occasionally bowled medium pace and was a capable hard-hitting left-handed batsman... |
1274 |
| Roly Jenkins Roly Jenkins Roly Jenkins was an English cricketer, almost exclusively for Worcestershire as a leg spinner in the period immediately after World War II... |
1148 |
| Peter Jackson Peter Jackson (cricketer) Percy Frederick Jackson was a Scottish born English cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club. He bowled offspin and was also known to take the new ball and bowl medium-paced outswingers... |
1139 |
| Len Coldwell Len Coldwell Len Coldwell was an English cricketer, who played in seven Tests for England from 1962 to 1964. Coldwell was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who was, for a few years in the early to mid-1960s, half of a respected and feared new-ball partnership in English county cricket... |
1029 |
Batting
- Highest team total: 701/6 declared v SurreySurrey County Cricket ClubSurrey County Cricket Club is one of the 18 professional county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Surrey. Its limited overs team is called the Surrey Lions...
, WorcesterNew Road, WorcesterNew Road, Worcester, England, has been the home cricket ground of Worcestershire County Cricket Club since 1896. Immediately to the northwest is a road called New Road, part of the A44, hence the name.- Overview :...
, 20072007 English cricket seasonThe 2007 English cricket season began on Saturday 14 April 2007 with the match between MCC and the 2006 county champions Sussex at Lord's.-Roll of honour:Test series*England v West Indies: 4 Tests - England won 3–0.... - Lowest team total: 24 v YorkshireYorkshire County Cricket ClubYorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....
, HuddersfieldHuddersfieldHuddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....
, 19031903 English cricket seasonIn the 1903 English cricket season Middlesex won their first County Championship title, winning eight and losing one of their 18 games in the season. Yorkshire, the defending champions and the only team to have won the Championship thus far in the 20th century, finished third after losing five... - Highest individual innings: 405* by Graeme HickGraeme HickGraeme Ashley Hick MBE is a Zimbabwean-born cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 he surpassed Graham Gooch's record for...
v Somerset, TauntonTauntonTaunton is the county town of Somerset, England. The town, including its suburbs, had an estimated population of 61,400 in 2001. It is the largest town in the shire county of Somerset....
, 19881988 English cricket seasonThe 1988 English cricket season was dominated by Worcestershire who won the first of two successive championships and also a second successive Sunday league title.... - Most runs in a season: 2,654 by Harold GibbonsHarold Gibbons (cricketer)Harold Harry Ian Haywood Gibbons , sometimes known as "Doc" Gibbons, was an English cricketer: a right-handed opening batsman and occasional right-arm bowler who was the first man to win a county cap for Worcestershire, as well as a reliable fielder in the deep.Gibbons made his first-class debut...
, 19341934 English cricket seasonThe 1934 English cricket season saw England lose the Ashes they had won via Bodyline in 1932-3, with Don Bradman again the crucial difference between two very strong teams.-Honours:*County Championship - Lancashire... - Most runs in a career: 34,490 by Don KenyonDon KenyonDonald Kenyon was an English cricketer, who played in eight Tests for England from 1951 to 1955. He captained Worcestershire between 1959 and 1967....
, 19461946 English cricket seasonThe 1946 English cricket season was the first full season of first-class cricket to be played in England after World War II. It featured a three-match Test series between England and India, which was arranged at short notice...
–19671967 English cricket seasonThe 1967 English cricket season saw a double England triumph as they won both of two home series.-Honours:*County Championship - Yorkshire*Gillette Cup - Kent*Minor Counties Championship - Cheshire...
Bowling
- Best bowling in an innings: 9–23 by Fred RootFred RootCharles Frederick Root was an English cricketer who played for England in 1926 and for Derbyshire between 1910 to 1920 and for Worcestershire between 1921 and 1932.- Early career :...
v LancashireLancashire County Cricket ClubLancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...
, Worcester, 19311931 English cricket season-Honours:*County Championship - Yorkshire*Minor Counties Championship - Leicestershire II*Wisden - Bill Bowes, Charles Dempster, James Langridge, Nawab of Pataudi, senior, Hedley Verity-Test series:... - Best bowling in a match: 15–87 by Arthur ConwayArthur ConwayArthur Joseph Conway was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler Arthur Joseph Conway (1 April 1885 – 29 October 1954) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler Arthur Joseph Conway (1 April 1885 – 29 October 1954) was an...
v GloucestershireGloucestershire County Cricket ClubGloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....
, Moreton-in-MarshMoreton-in-MarshMoreton-in-Marsh is a town and civil parish in northeastern Gloucestershire, England. The town is at the crossroads of the Fosse Way Roman road and the A44. The parish and environs are relatively flat and low-lying compared with the surrounding Cotswold Hills...
, 19141914 English cricket seasonThe 1914 English cricket season was called off at the end of August because of the outbreak of the First World War. The last four matches to be played all finished on 2 September and the remaining five scheduled fixtures were cancelled.... - Most wickets in a season: 207 by Fred Root, 19251925 English cricket seasonThe 1925 English cricket season did not have a Test series and the focus was ostensibly upon the County Championship, except that proceedings were dominated by Jack Hobbs who scored a then-record 16 centuries and 3024 runs. Along the way, Hobbs equalled and then surpassed the career record for...
Highest partnership for each wicket
- 1st: 309 by Frederick Bowley and Harry Foster v Derbyshire , Derby, 19011901 English cricket seasonYorkshire defended their County Championship title in the 1901 English cricket season, though, unlike in 1900, they lost one game during the season, to 12th-placed Somerset....
- 2nd: 316 by Stephen MooreStephen Moore (cricketer)Stephen Colin Moore is an English cricketer. Moore is a right-handed opening batsman who plays first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club. He previously played for Worcestershire from 2003 until 2009...
and Vikram SolankiVikram SolankiVikram Singh Solanki is an Indian-born English cricketer, who plays county cricket for Worcestershire. In 2007, he became the 24th Worcestershire batsman to pass 10,000 career runs for the county. He also captained Worcestershire from 2005 to 2010, before resigning mid-season...
v Gloucestershire, Cheltenham 20082008 English cricket seasonThe 2008 season of England's county cricket saw the four regular tournaments played: The LV County Championship , Friends Provident Trophy , NatWest Pro40 League and the Twenty20 Cup... - 3rd: 438* by Graeme HickGraeme HickGraeme Ashley Hick MBE is a Zimbabwean-born cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 he surpassed Graham Gooch's record for...
and Tom MoodyTom MoodyThomas Masson Moody is a former Australian cricketer and coach of the Sri Lankan cricket team. Today he is the coach for the IPL team Kings XI Punjab...
v Hampshire, Southampton, 19971997 English cricket seasonThe 1997 English cricket season centred on the six Test Ashes series against Australia. England won the first, at Edgbaston, by the decisive margin of nine wickets, and the rain-affected second Test at Lord's was drawn, but any English optimism was short-lived... - 4th: 330 by Ben Smith and Graeme HickGraeme HickGraeme Ashley Hick MBE is a Zimbabwean-born cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 he surpassed Graham Gooch's record for...
v Somerset, Taunton, 20062006 English cricket seasonThe 2006 English cricket season includes home international series for England against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. England are coming off a winter with more Test losses than wins, for the first time since 2002-03, but still attained their best series result in India since 1985... - 5th: 393 by Ted ArnoldTed ArnoldEdward George Arnold was an English cricketer who played in ten Test Matches from 1903 to 1907, and most of his 343 first-class matches for Worcestershire between 1899 and 1913...
and William BurnsWilliam Burns (cricketer)William Beaumont Burns was an English cricketer who played more than 200 first-class matches in the early 20th century, the great bulk of them for Worcestershire, for whom he filled in as captain on a number of occasions when the usual incumbents were not available...
v Warwickshire, Birmingham, 19091909 English cricket seasonThe 1909 English cricket season provided confirmation of Australia's superiority as Monty Noble's team retained the Ashes.-Honours:*County Championship - Kent*Minor Counties Championship - Wiltshire... - 6th: 265 by Graeme HickGraeme HickGraeme Ashley Hick MBE is a Zimbabwean-born cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 he surpassed Graham Gooch's record for...
and Steve RhodesSteve RhodesSteve Rhodes is a former English cricketer. He was best known as a wicket-keeper, but was also a useful number six or seven batsman, making twelve first-class centuries....
v Somerset, Taunton, 19881988 English cricket seasonThe 1988 English cricket season was dominated by Worcestershire who won the first of two successive championships and also a second successive Sunday league title.... - 7th: 256 by David LeatherdaleDavid LeatherdaleDavid Antony Leatherdale is a former English cricketer. He played county cricket for Worcestershire....
and Steve RhodesSteve RhodesSteve Rhodes is a former English cricketer. He was best known as a wicket-keeper, but was also a useful number six or seven batsman, making twelve first-class centuries....
v Nottinghamshire, Nottingham, 20022002 English cricket seasonThe 2002 English cricket season saw 2001 county champions Yorkshire relegated. They did, however, win the C&G Trophy.-Honours:*County Championship - Surrey*C&G Trophy - Yorkshire*National League - Glamorgan*Benson & Hedges Cup -... - 8th: 184 by Steve RhodesSteve RhodesSteve Rhodes is a former English cricketer. He was best known as a wicket-keeper, but was also a useful number six or seven batsman, making twelve first-class centuries....
and Stuart LampittStuart LampittStuart Lampitt was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He played for Worcestershire from 1985 to 2002. During his career he was victorious in the 1986 final of the William Younger Cup, and helped his team to the semi-finals of the Benson and...
v Derbyshire, Kidderminster, 19911991 English cricket seasonThe 1991 English cricket season was notable for some outstanding fast bowling performances by Messrs Ambrose, Donald and Waqar.-Honours:*County Championship - Essex*NatWest Trophy - Hampshire*Sunday League - Nottinghamshire... - 9th: 181 by John CuffeJohn CuffeJohn Alexander Cuffe was an Australian-born English cricketer who played more than 200 times in first-class cricket for Worcestershire between 1903 and 1914, having previously made a single appearance for New South Wales. After retiring from county cricket, he stood as an umpire for three years in...
and Robert BurrowsRobert BurrowsRobert Dixon Burrows was a first class cricketer who played for Worcestershire CCC between 1899 and 1919, he also umpired one test match and set a world record in 1911 when he sent a bail spinning 67 yards and 6 inches when he bowled Huddleston at Old Trafford.He bowled right arm fast medium and...
v Gloucestershire, Worcester, 19071907 English cricket seasonThe 1907 English cricket season gave Nottinghamshire its first-ever official County Championship title and saw the first Test matches to be held in England against South Africa.-Honours:*County Championship - Nottinghamshire... - 10th: 119 by William BurnsWilliam Burns (cricketer)William Beaumont Burns was an English cricketer who played more than 200 first-class matches in the early 20th century, the great bulk of them for Worcestershire, for whom he filled in as captain on a number of occasions when the usual incumbents were not available...
and George Alfred WilsonGeorge Alfred WilsonGeorge Alfred Wilson was an English cricketer, a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed batsman who was the first man to take a wicket for Worcestershire County Cricket Club after they attained first-class status for the 1899 season.Born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, Wilson opened the bowling in...
v Somerset, Worcester, 19061906 English cricket seasonThe 1906 English cricket season saw the Championship decided on the very last day with Kent just pipping Yorkshire for the title. George Hirst achieved the unique feat of a "double Double", i.e...
List A
- Highest team total: 404/3 in 60 overs vs Devon, Worcester, 1987
- Lowest team total: 58 all out in 20.3 overs vs Ireland, Worcester, 2009
- Highest individual innings: 180* by Tom MoodyTom MoodyThomas Masson Moody is a former Australian cricketer and coach of the Sri Lankan cricket team. Today he is the coach for the IPL team Kings XI Punjab...
vs SurreySurrey County Cricket ClubSurrey County Cricket Club is one of the 18 professional county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Surrey. Its limited overs team is called the Surrey Lions...
, The OvalThe OvalThe Kia Oval, still commonly referred to by its original name of The Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth. In the past it was also sometimes called the Kennington Oval...
, 1994 - Best bowling: 7–19 by Neal RadfordNeal RadfordNeal Victor Radford Neal Victor Radford Neal Victor Radford (born 7 June 1957, Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) is an English former cricketer, who appeared in three Tests and six ODIs for England.He also played for Transvaal B, Lancashire, Worcestershire, and Herefordshire....
vs Bedfordshire, BedfordBedfordBedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, in the East of England. It is a large town and the administrative centre for the wider Borough of Bedford. According to the former Bedfordshire County Council's estimates, the town had a population of 79,190 in mid 2005, with 19,720 in the adjacent town...
, 1991
Fostershire
"Fostershire" was a name jocularly applied to Worcestershire County Cricket Club in the early part of the 20th century, shortly after the county had achieved first-classFirst-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
status and admission into the English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
County Championship
County Championship
The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
(in 1899). The name came from the fact that no fewer than seven brothers from this one family played for Worcestershire during this period, three of whom captained the club at some point.
- No fewer than seven Foster brethren represented Worcestershire during the period 1899–1934, with six appearing during the seasons 1908–11.
Worcestershire facts and feats
- 29 year old batsman Worcestershire batsman Maurice NicholMaurice NicholMaurice Nichol was an English cricketer who played 136 first-class matches in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Other than one appearance for the Players in 1931, all his games were for Worcestershire....
died on the night of the rest day in the match against Essex at Chelmsford in 1934. He was known to have a heart weakness after a bout of pneumonia two years before. A minute's silence was observed before start of play on the Monday and the players wore black armbands. C.F. Walters, Nichol's captain, stroked an elegant century. Suggestions of 'horse play' were quickly debunked with a bruise on Nichol's chest explained by a blow from a ball. - Cyril WaltersCyril WaltersCyril Frederick Walters was a Welsh cricketer who had most of his success after leaving Glamorgan to do duty as captain-secretary of Worcestershire. In this role he developed his batting to such an extent that for a brief period he became an England regular and even captained them in one match as...
made a record 9 centuries in a season for Worcestershire in 1933. Although he only averaged 30.75 in first-class cricket, he boasted an impressive 52.27 in Tests. - Reg PerksReg PerksReginald Thomas David "Reg" Perks was an English cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1939, and was the mainstay of Worcestershire's bowling for a long period from the middle 1930s until the middle 1950s...
took 9 wickets in an innings, for the second time, against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham. His 9 for 42 could have been even better as the last batsman was dropped off his bowling. He took a record 2143 for Worcestershire.
Further reading
- H S AlthamHarry AlthamHarry Surtees Altham, CBE, DSO, MC was an English cricketer who became an important figure in the game as an administrator, historian and coach. His Wisden obituary described him as "among the best known personalities in the world of cricket"...
, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1962 - Derek BirleyDerek BirleySir Derek Birley was an English educator and writer who had a strong interest in sport, especially cricket.He was educated at grammar school in Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, and at Queens' College, Cambridge University....
, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999 - Rowland BowenRowland BowenMajor Rowland Francis Bowen was a cricket researcher, historian and writer....
, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970 - Roy WebberRoy WebberRoy Webber was a British cricket scorer and statistician. After World War II, in which he served with the Royal Air Force, he decided to turn what had been his hobby into his profession. He had the necessary proficiency with figures, having previously been an accountant. He was the scorer for BBC...
, The Playfair Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1951 - Playfair Cricket AnnualPlayfair Cricket AnnualPlayfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
– various editions - Wisden Cricketers Almanack – various editions
External links
- Worcestershire County Cricket Club Official Website
- Worcestershire CCC history
- Grounds in England from CricketArchiveCricketArchiveCricketArchive is a website that aims to provide a comprehensive archive of records relating to the sport of cricket. It claims to be the most comprehensive cricket database on the internet, including scorecards for all matches of first-class cricket , List A cricket , Women's Test cricket and...
. Retrieved 9 December 2006. - Worcestershire CCC Fans' Forum