Berkshire County Cricket Club

Berkshire County Cricket Club

Personnel
Captain	Daniel Lincoln
Coach	Tom Lambert
Team information
Founded	1895
Home ground	No fixed address
History
NCCC  wins	10
MCCAT  wins	7
FP Trophy  wins	0
Official website	http://www.berkshirecountycricketclub.org

Berkshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor counties clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Berkshire.

The team is currently a member of the National Counties Championship Western Division and plays in the NCCA Knockout Trophy. Berkshire played List A matches occasionally until 2005, but is not classified as a List A team per se. ^[1]

History

Main article: Berkshire county cricket team (1769–1795)

The first definite mention of cricket in Berkshire relates to the famous all rounder Thomas Waymark who resided at Bray Wick, near Maidenhead in the 1740s. In 1740, a combined Berkshire/Buckinghamshire/Hertfordshire team played two matches against London. ^[2] Berkshire as a county team in its own right was first recorded in June 1769 when it played Surrey. From then until 1795, Berkshire's matches are recognised as important. ^{[3] [note 1]} The strength of Berkshire lay in the Maidenhead aka Oldfield Cricket Club which was based at Old Field in Bray, which was Berkshire's usual home venue. In August 1795, Berkshire lost to Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's and then abruptly ceased to appear in the records.^{[ citation needed ]}

Rowland Bowen's researches discovered evidence of a county organisation by 1841, but it may only have been a loose association of local clubs, as was sometimes the case elsewhere. Berkshire County Cricket Club was founded on 17 March 1895, the same year that the Minor Counties Championship began. Berkshire did not compete in the first year of the competition, but joined for 1896.^{[ citation needed ]}

Current squad

• * denotes the team captain
• ‡ denotes players who have played first-class cricket.

Name	Nat	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batsmen
Waqas Hussain	England	(1992-05-11) 11 May 1992 (age 33)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Brandon Gilmour	England	(1996-04-11) 11 April 1996 (age 29)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
Andy Rishton ‡	England	(1995-02-14) 14 February 1995 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Oliver Birts	England	(1997-08-21) 21 August 1997 (age 28)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Dan Lincoln	England	(1995-05-26) 26 May 1995 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Adam Dewes	England	(1995-10-27) 27 October 1995 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Euan Woods	England	(1998-09-30) 30 September 1998 (age 27)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
Archie Carter	England	(2000-10-15) 15 October 2000 (age 25)	Right-handed	—
All-rounders
Richard Morris* ‡	England	(1987-09-25) 25 September 1987 (age 38)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
James Morris ‡	England	(1985-01-17) 17 January 1985 (age 40)	Right-handed	Leg break
Adam Dewes	England	(1996-11-26) 26 November 1996 (age 29)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Jarryd Wallace	England	Unknown	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Wicket-keepers
Joe Thomas	England	(1998-02-10) 10 February 1998 (age 27)	Right-handed	—
Stewart Davison ‡	England	(1991-04-06) 6 April 1991 (age 34)	Right-handed	—
Joe Cracknell	England	(2000-03-16) 16 March 2000 (age 25)	Right-handed	—
Jack Davies	England	(2000-03-30) 30 March 2000 (age 25)	Left-handed	—	England Under-19 player
Bowlers
Chris Peploe ‡	England	(1981-04-26) 26 April 1981 (age 44)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Callum Gregory	England	(1997-02-14) 14 February 1997 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Akbar Raja	England	(1991-05-06) 6 May 1991 (age 34)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Alexander Russell ‡	England	(1998-05-28) 28 May 1998 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
Toby Greatwood	England	Unknown	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
Tom Nugent ‡	England	(1994-07-11) 11 July 1994 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
Ethan Bamber ‡	England	(1998-12-17) 17 December 1998 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium

• Squad information correct as of 14 February 2019 ^[8]

Notable players

International

This list includes those Berkshire players who have played in Test cricket since 1877, One Day International cricket since 1971, or a Twenty20 International since 2004.

England

• Danny Briggs
• Percy Chapman
• Tom Dollery
• John Emburey
• Aftab Habib
• Alan Igglesden
• Richard Johnson
• Peter May
• Albert Relf
• Graham Roope
• Shaun Udal
• Shoaib Bashir

Netherlands

• Billy Stelling

South Africa

• Charl Willoughby

West Indies

• Jimmy Adams

Other

For cricketers who have played minor counties cricket for Berkshire, and have also played domestic cricket at first-class/List A/Twenty20 level, or are notable in fields outside of cricket, see Category:Berkshire cricketers.

Honours

• National Counties Championship (10) - 1924, 1928, 1953, 2008, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024 (shared)
• NCCA Knockout Trophy (8) – 2004, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
• NCCA T20 Champions (1) - 2018
• NCCA Western Division Champions (7) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024

Grounds

For a complete list of grounds used by Berkshire, see List of Berkshire County Cricket Club grounds.

Notes

1. Some eleven-a-side matches played from 1772 to 1863 have been rated "first-class" by certain sources. ^[4] However, the term only came into common use around 1864, when overarm bowling was legalised. It was formally defined as a standard by a meeting at Lord's, in May 1894, of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the county clubs which were then competing in the County Championship. The ruling was effective from the beginning of the 1895 season, but pre-1895 matches of the same standard have no official definition of status because the ruling is not retrospective. ^[5] Matches of a similar standard since the beginning of the 1864 season are generally considered to have an unofficial first-class status. ^[6] Pre-1864 matches which are included in the ACS' "Important Match Guide" may generally be regarded as important or, at least, historically significant. ^[7] For further information, see First-class cricket.

References

1. "List A events played by Berkshire" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
2. Waghorn 1899, p. 25.
3. Berkshire (pre-county club, CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 June 2024. (subscription required)
4. "First-Class Matches in England in 1772" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
5. Wisden (1948). Preston, Hubert (ed.). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (85th ed.). London: Sporting Handbooks Ltd. p. 813. OCLC   851705816.
6. ACS 1982, pp. 4–5.
7. ACS 1981, pp. 1–40.
8. "Berkshire's First Team". Berkshire County Cricket Club. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

External links

• Berkshire CCC website Archived 25 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine
• Minor Counties CA website

Bibliography

• ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709–1863. Nottingham: ACS. OCLC   85045528.
• ACS (1982). A Guide to First-class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles. Nottingham: ACS. OCLC   10586869.
• Bowen, Rowland (1970). Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. ISBN   978-04-13278-60-9.
• Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Birmingham: Cotterell & Co. OCLC   23450280.
• Waghorn, H. T. (1899). Cricket Scores, Notes, &c. From 1730–1773. Edinburgh: Blackwood. OCLC   1086375331.
• Waghorn, H. T. (2005) [1906]. The Dawn of Cricket. London: J. W. McKenzie. ISBN   978-09-47821-17-3.