Abdul Razzaq is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer,who played all formats of the game. Known as a gifted all-rounder,he was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-handed batsman. He emerged in international cricket in 1996 with his One Day International debut against Zimbabwe at his home ground in Gaddafi Stadium,Lahore;just one month before his seventeenth birthday. He was part of the Pakistan Cricket squad that won the ICC World Twenty20 2009. He was a part of the Pakistan squad which finished as runners-up at the 1999 Cricket World Cup. He played 265 ODIs and 46 Tests.
Vikram Singh Solanki is an English cricket coach and former first-class cricketer. In limited over international cricket,he played over 50 One Day Internationals for England as a batsman and occasional off-spinner.
George Alfred Lohmann was an English cricketer,regarded as one of the greatest bowlers of all time. Statistically,he holds the lowest lifetime Test bowling average among bowlers with more than fifteen wickets and he has the second highest peak rating for a bowler in the ICC ratings. He also holds the record for the lowest strike rate in all Test history.
Kenneth Frank Barrington,was an English international cricketer who played for the England cricket team and Surrey County Cricket Club in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a right-handed batsman and occasional leg-spin bowler,known for his jovial good humour and long,defensive innings "batting with bulldog determination and awesome concentration".
In cricket,a century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings by a batter. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for batters and a player's number of centuries is generally recorded in their career statistics. Scoring a century is loosely equivalent in merit to a bowler taking a five-wicket haul,and is commonly referred to as a ton or hundred. Scores of more than 200 runs are still statistically counted as a century,although these scores are referred to as double,triple,and quadruple centuries,and so on. Reaching 50 runs in an innings is known as a half-century.
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in 2005 are playing their cricket in Division One of both the County Championship and totesport League. They started the Championship at 18–1 to win it,and as one of the teams most likely to be relegated from it. So they were—only their five draws prevented them from finishing bottom,and they were the only team to lose to bottom-placed Glamorgan. By the end of August,they were relegated,with three games to spare. In the National League,they were never better than sixth at any time during the season,and lost three games in succession to be ninth before the final round of matches. They won their last match,but were still relegated due to a worse net run rate than Lancashire. They were thus the first club to suffer double relegation since Leicestershire in 2003. Their Twenty20 and C&G Trophy campaigns ended almost as early as they could have done—Gloucestershire did get past the first round of the C&G Trophy,beating Berkshire,but were knocked out by Surrey.
The MCC University matches in 2005 are games played between the University Centre of Cricketing Excellence ("UCCEs") and first-class opposition. This is the first year the games are called "MCC" University matches,after the MCC announced a funding plan to support the development of student cricket.
Kent County Cricket Club in 2005 played their cricket in Division One of the County Championship and Division Two of the totesport League. They started the Championship at 11–2 to win it,behind Surrey and Warwickshire. Their first first-class game,however,was against the students of Cardiff UCCE. They fell to 104 for 6 before rain prevented any further play. They had little luck in their first Sunday League game,against Derbyshire,which was also abandoned through rain.
Surrey County Cricket Club,in 2005, played their cricket in the First Division of the County Championship and the Second Division of the totesport League. The 2004 season was a disappointment for Surrey under the captaincy of Jonathan Batty,who was replaced by Mark Butcher in 2005. However,Butcher was out for most of the season due to an injury to his left wrist,leaving Mark Ramprakash as interim captain –one of the few,maybe the only,man to captain both Surrey and their arch-rivals Middlesex.
Rikki Clarke is a retired English cricketer,who last played for Surrey. He was educated at Broadwater School and then Godalming College. Clarke began his career as a professional cricketer with Surrey in 2000,making his list A debut in 2001 and First Class debut in 2002,and the following year made his One Day International debut for England;later in 2003 he played his first Test match. Between 2003 and 2006 he played two Tests,both against Bangladesh and 20 ODIs.
Bangladesh A toured England in July and August 2005 for first class and List A cricket matches against English domestic teams. The team struggled in the first class matches,where they drew two and lost three matches,and only looked like having a chance of winning in the last match against Kent. The one-day series went slightly better,with Bangladesh A winning two,losing one and abandoning a fourth,but for a second string national team against mainly second elevens from English domestic cricket,it was a highly disappointing tour.
Jacobus Andries "Jacques" Rudolph is a former South African cricketer who played for Yorkshire,Glamorgan and in South Africa with Titans.
William Wilfrid Whysall,generally known as "Dodger" Whysall,was an English professional cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club from 1910 to 1930,and in four Test matches for England from 1925 to 1930. He was born at Woodborough,Nottinghamshire,and died in a Nottingham hospital.
Daniel David Cherry is a Welsh cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Glamorgan and represented England up to under 17 level.
Graham Richard Napier is an English former cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. Napier played first-class cricket for his home county of Essex since the outset of his senior career in 1997. Between 1997 and 1999 Napier played in four Youth Test matches in England against Zimbabwe,South Africa (twice) and Australia's respective under-19 teams. He was also a member of the 1998 Under-19 Cricket World Cup winning squad. Napier was on the books of Ipswich Town as a goalkeeper and played for a season on loan at Felixstowe Town. He retired at the end of the 2016 season.
The Indian cricket team toured England in the 1971 season and played 19 first-class fixtures,winning 7,losing only one and drawing 11.
Jason Jonathan Roy is an English cricketer who plays for England in One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket,and previously played for the Test team. In domestic cricket,he represents Surrey,and has played in multiple Twenty20 leagues,including for Gujarat Lions,Delhi Daredevils,Sunrisers Hyderabad,and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League and Paarl Royals (SA20).
The 2005 Cheltenham &Gloucester Trophy was the 4th Cheltenham &Gloucester Trophy,an English county cricket tournament,held between 3 May and 3 September 2005. The competition was contested by all 18 first-class counties,as well as 10 minor counties and the national teams of Scotland,Ireland,the Netherlands and Denmark,to make up a full 32-team tournament. The final was won by the Hampshire Hawks,who beat the Warwickshire Bears by 18 runs at Lord's on 3 September 2005.
Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1994 achieved the unprecedented feat of winning three trophies in an English domestic season. The treble included titles in the County Championship,Sunday League and Benson &Hedges Cup while the grand slam was narrowly missed as they lost to Worcestershire in the final of the Natwest Trophy. Wisden described it as the 'most remarkable season by any side in the history of county cricket'.
Benjamin Andrew Stokes is an English international cricketer who is the captain of the England Test team and plays for the England team in ODIs and T20Is. Stokes is regarded as one of England's greatest all-rounders in the history of the sport. In domestic cricket,he represents Durham and has played in multiple Twenty20 leagues around the world. He was part of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and 2022 T20 World Cup.
