Worcestershire County Cricket Club
One-day Name:	Worcestershire Royals
Coach:	Steve Rhodes
Captain:	Vikram Solanki
Overseas Player:	Doug Bollinger
Overseas Player:	Phil Jaques
Founded:	1865
Home Ground:	New Road
First-class debut:	Yorkshire
	- 1899
Championship Wins:	5
National League Wins:	3
FP Trophy Wins:	1
Official Website:	WCCC

Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English 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". Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Steven John Rhodes (born 17 June 1964 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is an English cricketer. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Vikram Singh Solanki (born 1 April 1976) is an English cricketer, a right-handed opening batsman. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Douglas Erwin Bollinger (born July 24, 1981, Baulkham Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian cricketer who currently plays first-class cricket for the New South Wales Blues. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Philip Anthony Jaques (pronounced Jakes, born May 3, 1979 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian cricketer. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... New Road, Worcester, England has been the home of Worcestershire County Cricket Club since 1899. ... Image File history File links Yorkshire_logo. ... Yorkshire County Cricket Club, who represent the historic county of Yorkshire, are one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Monarch Queen Elizabeth II... Bowler Shaun Pollock bowls to batsman Michael Hussey. ... The historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England. ... Worcestershire (pronounced ; abbreviated Worcs) is a county located in the West Midlands region of central England. ...

The club is based at New Road, Worcester. New Road, Worcester, England has been the home of Worcestershire County Cricket Club since 1899. ... The city of Worcester (pronounced Wuh-ster) is the county town of Worcestershire in England; the river Severn runs through the middle, with the citys large Worcester Cathedral overlooking the river. ...

Honours

• County Championship (5) - 1964, 1965, 1974, 1988, 1989

Division Two (1) - 2003

• Gillette/NatWest/C&G Trophy (1) - 1994
• Sunday/National League (3) - 1971, 1987, 1988
• 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

History

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 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. Hartlebury Common Hartlebury Common is an area of lowland heath in Worcestershire, England, situated just outside the town of Stourport-on-Severn. ... William Clarke (born 24 December 1798 in Nottingham; died 25 August 1856 in Wandsworth, Surrey) was a famous English cricketer and team manager. ... In cricket, the term All-England Eleven has been used for various non-international England teams since 1739 and it indicates that the Rest of England are playing against, say, MCC or an individual county side. ...

Origin of the club

Worcestershire CCC was formed on 4 March 1865 at the Star Hotel in Worcester. The city of Worcester (pronounced Wuh-ster) is the county town of Worcestershire in England; the river Severn runs through the middle, with the citys large Worcester Cathedral overlooking the river. ...

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. , Stourbridge is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands of England. ... Stoke Edith is a village in the English county of Herefordshire, situated on a road leading from Hereford to Ledbury. ... Herefordshire is a historic and ceremonial county and unitary district (known as County of Herefordshire) in the West Midlands region of England. ... The Minor Counties Cricket Championship is a season-long competition in England that is competed for by those county cricket clubs that do not have first-class status. ...

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. The County Championship is the domestic first class cricket competition in the United Kingdom, mainly in England. ... Yorkshire County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at Headingley in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. ...

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 Foster, 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. Reginald Erskine (Tip) Foster (16 April 1878 - 13 May 1914) was an English footballer and cricketer. ... Arthur Fielder should not be confused with Arthur Fiedler, Boston conductor Arthur Fielder (born July 19, 1877, Plaxtol, Tonbridge, Kent, England; died August 30, 1949, Lambeth, London, England) was the leading fast bowler in English cricket for the decade before World War I and one of the key contributors to... Colin Blythe (born May 30, 1879 in Deptford; died in World W ar I on the Forest Hall to Pimmern military railway line, Belgium on November 8, 1917) was a Kent and England left arm spinner who is regarded as one of the finest bowlers of the period between 1900... Kent County Cricket Club is an English county cricket club based at Canterbury, Kent. ...

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. Charles Frederick Root (16 April 1890 - 20 January 1954) was an English cricketer. ... Leg theory is a bowling tactic in the sport of cricket. ... A Test match between South Africa and England in January 2005. ... He captained England once, which England lost, against the touring Australians in 1934, when he stood in for Bob Wyatt. ... Iftikhar Ali Khan (born March 6, 1910, died January 5, 1952) was the Nawab of Pataudi and captain of the Indian cricket team. ...

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. Richard Howorth (born April 26, 1909, Bacup, Lancashire, died April 2, 1980, Worcester) was an English cricketer who played in 5 Tests from 1947 to 1948. ... Reg Perks (in full Reginald Thomas David Perks; born October 4, 1911, Hereford, died November 22, 1977, Worcester) was an English cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1939, and was the mainstay of Worcestershires bowling for a long period from the middle 1930s until the middle 1950s. ... Roland Oliver Jenkins (born November 24, 1918, Rainbow Hill, Worcester, died July 22, 1995, Worcester) was an English cricketer who played in 9 Tests from 1948 to 1952. ...

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 Championships 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 Zealander Glenn Turner was instrumental in Worcestershire's third championship. And in the 1980s, the prodigious batting feats of Graeme Hick and the arrival of Ian Botham paved the way for two more county titles. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Sir George H Dowty (1901-1975) was a British inventor and businessman. ... Donald Kenyon (born May 15, 1924, Wordsley, Staffordshire, died November 12, 1996, Worcester) was an English cricketer who played in 8 Tests from 1951 to 1955. ... The County Championship is the domestic first class cricket competition in the United Kingdom, mainly in England. ... Norman Gifford was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. ... Thomas William Graveney (born 16 June 1927) is a former English cricketer and the president of the Marylebone Cricket Club for 2004/5. ... John Alfred Flavell (born May 15, 1929, Wall Heath, Staffordshire, died February 25, 2004, Barmouth, Gwynedd) was an English cricketer who played in 4 Tests from 1961 to 1964. ... Leonard John Coldwell (born January 10, 1933, Newton Abbot, Devon, died August 6, 1996, Teignmouth, Devon) was an English cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1962 to 1964. ... Basil Lewis DOliveira (born 4 October 1931) is a retired cricketer. ... Glenn Maitland Turner (b. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Graeme Ashley Hick (born 23 May 1966) is a former England cricketer. ... Ian Terence Botham OBE, (born November 24, 1955 in Heswall, Cheshire) (nicknamed Both, Beefy, Beef or Guy the Gorilla) is a retired England Test cricketer. ...

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.^[1] Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Northamptonshire. ... Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. ... Grace Road cricket ground,Leicester. ... The result in a game of cricket may be a win for one of the two teams playing, a draw or a tie. ... Yorkshire County Cricket Club, who represent the historic county of Yorkshire, are one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure. ...

2007 squad

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Club captains

Henry Knollys Harry Foster, born at Malvern, Worcestershire, on October 30, 1873 and died at Kingsthorne, Herefordshire on June 23, 1950, was a cricketer who played for Oxford University and Worcestershire. ... Reginald Erskine (Tip) Foster (16 April 1878 - 13 May 1914) was an English footballer and cricketer. ... George Hayward Thomas Simpson-Hayward (born June 7, 1875, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, died October 2, 1936, Icomb Place, Gloucestershire) was an English cricketer who played in 5 Tests in 1910. ... William Herbert Taylor (23 June 1885 - 27 May 1959) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler who played 107 times for Worcestershire between 1909 and 1925, captaining the county in 1914, 1919 and 1922. ... Maurice Frederick Stewart Jewell, CBE (15 September 1885 - 28 May 1978) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and slow left arm bowler who played the bulk of his first-class cricket for Worcestershire between the wars. ... Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby (26 December 1889 - 11 May 1945) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played 74 times for Worcestershire between 1911 and 1928, captaining the county in 1927; he also made a single appearance each for MCC and HK Fosters XI. Born... John Bonynge Coventry (9 January 1903 - 4 July 1969) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and slow left arm bowler who played 75 times in first-class cricket for Worcestershire between 1919 and 1935, captaining the county for the latter part of the 1929 and the whole of... He captained England once, which England lost, against the touring Australians in 1934, when he stood in for Bob Wyatt. ... Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham KG GCMG GCVO TD PC (8 August 1909 – 20 March 1977) was a New Zealand political figure and English cricketer. ... Alexander Parkinson Singleton, known as Sandy (5 August 1914 - 22 March 1999), was an English all-round cricketer: a right-handed opening batsman and slow left arm bowler. ... Allan Frederick Tinsdale White (5 September 1915 - 16 March 1993) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played for both Warwickshire and Worcestershire, captaining the latter county between 1947 and 1949, though sharing the captaincy with Bob Wyatt in the last of those three seasons. ... Robert Bob Elliott Storey Wyatt (2 May 1901, Milford Heath House, Surrey, England _ 20 April 1995, Truro, Cornwall) was an English cricket player. ... Reg Perks (in full Reginald Thomas David Perks; born October 4, 1911, Hereford, died November 22, 1977, Worcester) was an English cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1939, and was the mainstay of Worcestershires bowling for a long period from the middle 1930s until the middle 1950s. ... Peter Edward Richardson, born July 4, 1931, was a cricketer who played for Worcestershire, Kent and England. ... Donald Kenyon (born May 15, 1924, Wordsley, Staffordshire, died November 12, 1996, Worcester) was an English cricketer who played in 8 Tests from 1951 to 1955. ... Thomas William Graveney (born 16 June 1927) is a former English cricketer and the president of the Marylebone Cricket Club for 2004/5. ... Norman Gifford was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. ... Glenn Maitland Turner (b. ... Phillip Anthony Neale, born at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, on June 5, 1954, was a cricketer who played for Worcestershire and captained the team to success in the County Championship in 1988 and 1989. ... Timothy Stephen Curtis (born Chislehurst, Kent on 15 January 1960) was an England cricketer. ... Thomas Masson Moody (born October 2, 1965, Adelaide, South Australia) is a former Australian cricketer and the current coach of the Sri Lankan cricket team. ... Graeme Ashley Hick (born 23 May 1966) is a former England cricketer. ... Benjamin Francis Smith (born 3 April 1972 in Corby, Northamptonshire) is an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler. ... Steven John Rhodes (born 17 June 1964 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is an English cricketer. ... Vikram Singh Solanki (born 1 April 1976) is an English cricketer, a right-handed opening batsman. ...

Notable past players

Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... George Alfred Wilson (5 April 1877 - 3 March 1962) 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. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Charles Frederick Root (16 April 1890 - 20 January 1954) was an English cricketer. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Reg Perks (in full Reginald Thomas David Perks; born October 4, 1911, Hereford, died November 22, 1977, Worcester) was an English cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1939, and was the mainstay of Worcestershires bowling for a long period from the middle 1930s until the middle 1950s. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... John Alfred Flavell (born May 15, 1929, Wall Heath, Staffordshire, died February 25, 2004, Barmouth, Gwynedd) was an English cricketer who played in 4 Tests from 1961 to 1964. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Leonard John Coldwell (born January 10, 1933, Newton Abbot, Devon, died August 6, 1996, Teignmouth, Devon) was an English cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1962 to 1964. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Norman Gifford was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Graham Roy Dilley (born 18 May 1959 in Dartford, Kent) was an English cricketer whose main role was as a fast bowler. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Andrew John Bichel (born August 27, 1970) is an Australian cricket player. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Shoaib Akhtar (Urdu: شعیب اختر) (born 13 August 1975 in Rawalpindi, Punjab) is a Pakistani cricket player, widely recognized the fastest bowler in the world, earning him the name Rawalpindi Express. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Sri_Lanka. ... Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas, (born 27 January 1974 in Mattumagala), usually known as Chaminda Vaas, is a Sri Lankan cricketer who is regarded as being the best fast bowler to come out of the country. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... Zaheer Khan   (born October 7, 1978, Srirampur, Maharashtra) is an Indian cricketer who has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000. ...

County caps awarded

Note: Worcestershire no longer award traditional caps, instead awarding "colours" on a player's Championship debut.

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Richard Howorth (born April 26, 1909, Bacup, Lancashire, died April 2, 1980, Worcester) was an English cricketer who played in 5 Tests from 1947 to 1948. ... Edwin Cooper (30 November 1915 – 29 October 1968) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played 249 first-class matches for Worcestershire (and one for North of England) between 1936 and 1951. ... Roland Oliver Jenkins (born November 24, 1918, Rainbow Hill, Worcester, died July 22, 1995, Worcester) was an English cricketer who played in 9 Tests from 1948 to 1952. ... Charles Henry Palmer (born 15 May 1919 at Old Hill, Staffordshire, England; died 31 March 2005 in England) was a cricketer who played for Leicestershire and Worcestershire from 1938 to 1959. ... Allan Frederick Tinsdale White (5 September 1915 - 16 March 1993) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played for both Warwickshire and Worcestershire, captaining the latter county between 1947 and 1949, though sharing the captaincy with Bob Wyatt in the last of those three seasons. ... Robert Bob Elliott Storey Wyatt (2 May 1901, Milford Heath House, Surrey, England _ 20 April 1995, Truro, Cornwall) was an English cricket player. ... Donald Kenyon (born May 15, 1924, Wordsley, Staffordshire, died November 12, 1996, Worcester) was an English cricketer who played in 8 Tests from 1951 to 1955. ... Henry Yarnold (July 6, 1917 - August 13, 1974) was an English first class cricketer who became a Test cricket umpire. ... Ladislaus Frederick Outschoorn (26 September 1918 – 9 January 1994), usually known as Laddy Outschoorn, was a cricketer: a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Worcestershire in the years after the Second World War. ... Michael Lionel Yeoward Ainsworth (13 May 1922 - 28 August 1978) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played his county cricket for Worcestershire but also appeared on a number of occasions for Combined Services and Free Foresters. ... George Dews (5 June 1921 - 29 January 2003) was an English cricketer and footballer. ... Peter Edward Richardson, born July 4, 1931, was a cricketer who played for Worcestershire, Kent and England. ... John Alfred Flavell (born May 15, 1929, Wall Heath, Staffordshire, died February 25, 2004, Barmouth, Gwynedd) was an English cricketer who played in 4 Tests from 1961 to 1964. ... Martin John Horton (born April 21, 1934, Worcester) is a former English cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1959. ... Roy Booth, born at Marsden, West Yorkshire on October 1, 1926, was a first class cricketer who played for both Yorkshire and Worcestershire. ... Derek Walter Richardson (born November 3, 1934, Hereford) is a former English cricketer who played in one Test in 1957. ... Robert Berry (born January 29, 1926, Gorton, Lancashire) is a former English cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1950. ... Keith John Aldridge (born March 13, 1935) was an English cricketer. ... Leonard John Coldwell (born January 10, 1933, Newton Abbot, Devon, died August 6, 1996, Teignmouth, Devon) was an English cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1962 to 1964. ... Douglas Norman Frank Slade (born August 24, 1940, Feckenham) is a former English cricketer who played for Worcestershire and Shropshire. ... Norman Gifford was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. ... Ronald George Alphonso Headley (born June 29, 1939, Mountain View,Vineyard Town, Kingston, Jamaica) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests and one ODI in 1973. ... Thomas William Graveney (born 16 June 1927) is a former English cricketer and the president of the Marylebone Cricket Club for 2004/5. ... Basil Lewis DOliveira (born 4 October 1931) is a retired cricketer. ... Brian Maurice Brain (born 13 September 1940 in Worcester) is an English former cricketer whose career with Worcestershire and Gloucestershire stretched over more than two decades. ... Joseph Alan Ormrod (born December 22, 1942 in Ramsbottom) is a former English first class cricketer who played with Worcestershire. ... Glenn Maitland Turner (b. ... Edward John Orton Hemsley (born September 1, 1943, in Stoke-on-Trent, England) was a professional footballer, playing at left-back for Sheffield United and Shrewsbury Town. ... Vanburn Alonzo Holder (born October 10, 1945, Deans Village, St Michael, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in 40 Tests and 12 ODIs from 1969 to 1979. ... Thomas James Yardley (born 27 October 1946) is a former English cricketer: a left-handed batsman, occasional wicket-keeper and even more occasional right-arm medium pace bowler (he bowled only eight overs in first-class cricket) who played for Worcestershire and Northamptonshire between 1967 and 1982. ... John Morton Parker (born 21 February 1951, Dannevirke) was a New Zealand cricketer. ... Imran Khan (Urdu/Pashto: عمران احمد خان نیازی) (Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi; son of Ikram Ullah Khan Niazi Shermankhel) born November 25, 1952, in Mianwali is an Oxbridge educated Pakistani former cricketer turned politician and philanthropist. ... James Cumbes (born 4 May 1944), often known as Jim Cumbes, is a former English cricketer: a right-arm fast-medium bowler and lower-order right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for four counties, and later served as Chief Executive of Lancashire. ... Phillip Anthony Neale, born at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, on June 5, 1954, was a cricketer who played for Worcestershire and captained the team to success in the County Championship in 1988 and 1989. ... Dipak Narshibhai Patel (b. ... Mohammad Younis Ahmed (born October 20, 1947, Jalandhar, India) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 4 Tests and 2 ODIs from 1969 to 1987. ... Hartley Leroy Alleyne (born 28 February 1957 in Derricks, St James) is a former Barbadian cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Barbados, Worcestershire, Kent and Natal between 1978-79 and 1989-90. ... Timothy Stephen Curtis (born Chislehurst, Kent on 15 January 1960) was an England cricketer. ... David Mark Smith (born January 9, 1956, Balham, London) is a former English cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 2 ODIs from 1986 to 1990. ... Damian Basil DOliveira (born 19 October 1960 in Cape Town, also known as Dolly South Africa) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Worcestershire from 1982 to 1995, and is the current Academy director of Worcestershire County Cricket Club. ... Neal Victor Radford (born 7 June 1957) was an English cricketer. ... Graeme Ashley Hick (born 23 May 1966) is a former England cricketer. ... Richard Keith Illingworth (born 23 August 1963, Bradford, Yorkshire) was an English cricketer. ... Philip John Newport (born 11 October 1962 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a seam and swing bowler. ... Steven John Rhodes (born 17 June 1964 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is an English cricketer. ... Martin Weston born April 8, 1959 in Worcester is a retired professional cricketer who played for Worcestershire from 1979 to 1995. ... Ian Terence Botham OBE, (born November 24, 1955 in Heswall, Cheshire) (nicknamed Both, Beefy, Beef or Guy the Gorilla) is a retired England Test cricketer. ... Graham Roy Dilley (born 18 May 1959 in Dartford, Kent) was an English cricketer whose main role was as a fast bowler. ... Stuart Lampitt (born July 29, 1966 in Wolverhampton) was an English cricketer. ... Steven Michael McEwan (born 5 May 1962 in Worcester) is a former English cricketer: a right-arm fast-medium bowler and lower-order right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for Worcestershire and Durham. ... Gordon John Lord (born 25 April 1961) is a former cricketer: a left-handed batsman who played for Warwickshire and Worcestershire, but who despite a promising start in which he played three Youth Tests for England never fulfilled this promise and retired well short of 100 first-class games. ... Thomas Masson Moody (born October 2, 1965, Adelaide, South Australia) is a former Australian cricketer and the current coach of the Sri Lankan cricket team. ... Chris Tolley born December 30, 1967 in Kidderminster is a retired professional cricketer who played for Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire during a career which lasted from 1989 to 2002. ... Gavin Haynes born September 29, 1969 in Stourbridge is a retired professional cricketer who played for Worcestershire from 1991 to 1999. ... David Antony Leatherdale (born 26 November 1967 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is an English cricketer. ... Phil Weston (born William Phillip Christopher Weston on June 16, 1973 in Durham) is an English cricketer. ... Alamgir Sheriyar (born 15 November 1973 in Birmingham, Warwickshire) is an English cricket player. ... Karl Reuben Spiring (born 13 November 1974 in Southport) was an English cricketer. ... Vikram Singh Solanki (born 1 April 1976) is an English cricketer, a right-handed opening batsman. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Andrew John Bichel (born August 27, 1970) is an Australian cricket player. ... This article deals with the English cricketer. ... Ray Price (born June 12, 1976 in Salisbury - now Harare) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. ...

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 2006 season. The 2006 English cricket season includes home international series for England against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. ...

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. Haden Hill Park is a park in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England. ... Old Hill is a locality in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell in West Midlands, England. ... The County of West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a population of around 2,600,000 people. ... The Benson & Hedges Cup was a one day cricket competition for English first class counties which was held from 1972 to 2002. ...

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Records

First-class

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Batting

• Highest team total: 701/6 declared v Surrey, Worcester, 2007
• Lowest team total: 24 v Yorkshire, Huddersfield, 1903
• Highest individual innings: 405* by Graeme Hick v Somerset, Taunton, 1988
• Most runs in a season: 2,654 by Harold Gibbons, 1934
• Most runs in a career: 34,490 by Don Kenyon, 1946–1967

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Bowling

• Best bowling in an innings: 9-23 by Fred Root v Lancashire, Worcester, 1931
• Best bowling in a match: 15-87 by Arthur Conway v Gloucestershire, Moreton-in-Marsh, 1914
• Most wickets in a season: 207 by Fred Root, 1925

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Highest partnership for each wicket

• 1st: 309 by Frederick Bowley and Harry Foster v Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Derby, 1901
• 2nd: 300 by Phil Weston and Graeme Hick v Indians, Worcester, 1996
• 3rd: 438* by Graeme Hick and Tom Moody v Hampshire, Southampton, 1997
• 4th: 330 by Ben Smith and Graeme Hick v Somerset, Taunton, 2006
• 5th: 393 by Ted Arnold and William Burns v Warwickshire, Birmingham, 1909
• 6th: 265 by Graeme Hick and Steve Rhodes v Somerset, Taunton, 1988
• 7th: 256 by David Leatherdale and Steve Rhodes v Nottinghamshire, Nottingham, 2002
• 8th: 184 by Steve Rhodes and Stuart Lampitt v Derbyshire, Kidderminster, 1991
• 9th: 181 by John Cuffe and Robert Burrows v Gloucestershire, Worcester, 1907
• 10th: 119 by William Burns and George Alfred Wilson v Somerset, Worcester, 1906

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List A

• Highest team total: 404/3 in 60 overs vs Devon, Worcester, 1987
• Lowest team total: 70 all out in 22 overs vs Gloucestershire, Worcester, 2002
• Highest individual innings: 180* by Tom Moody vs Surrey, The Oval, 1994
• Best bowling: 7-19 by Neal Radford vs Bedfordshire, Bedford, 1991

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Worcestershire Facts and Feats

• No fewer than seven Foster brethren represented Worcestershire during the period 1899-1934, with six appearing during the seasons 1908-11. The full list, with Worcestershire careers in brackets is: BS (1902-11), GN (1903-14), HK (1899-1925), MK (1908-34), NJA (1914-23), RE (1899-1912) and WL (1899-1911). Not surprisingly the county became known as 'Fostershire'.

• 29 year old batsman Worcestershire batsman Maurice Nichol 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 Walters 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 Perks 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.

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See also

• Worcestershire CCC history

Notes

1. ^ Largest Margin of Innings Defeat. CricketArchive. Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
2. ^ Four other List A matches, all involving Worcestershire Cricket Board, have been played at Kidderminster.
3. ^ One other first-class match, a 1972 England v Rest of England Test trial, has been played at New Road.
4. ^ Three One-Day Internationals have also been played at New Road: West Indies v Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup, and Australia v Scotland and Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe in the 1999 World Cup. The 2003 C&G Trophy game between Worcestershire Cricket Board and Worcestershire is included in this figure, although it was technically a Worcs CB home fixture.
5. ^ One other first-class match, between HK Foster's XI and the Australian Imperial Forces, has been played at the Racecourse Ground.

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References

• Cricket: History of its Growth and Development by Rowland Bowen
• Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records by Peter Wynne-Thomas
• Playfair Cricket Annual
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack

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External links

• Grounds in England from CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 December 2006.

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External links

• Worcestershire County Cricket Club