Frederick Sewards Trueman,was an English cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. He had professional status and later became an author and broadcaster.
Charles Frederick Root was an English cricketer who played for England in 1926 and for Derbyshire between 1910 and 1920 and for Worcestershire between 1921 and 1932.
Richard Keith Illingworth is an English former cricketer,who is currently an umpire. The bulk of his domestic cricketing career was with Worcestershire,although he had a spell with Derbyshire,and overseas with Natal. He played in nine Tests and twenty-five ODIs for England,including participating in the 1992 and 1996 Cricket World Cups. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
Norman Gifford is a retired English cricketer,who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. Gifford played county cricket for Worcestershire,and Warwickshire County Cricket Clubs,and represented England in fifteen Test matches and two One Day International between 1964 and 1985.
Colin Leslie McCool was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Test matches between 1946 and 1950. McCool,born in Paddington,New South Wales,was an all-rounder who bowled leg spin and googlies with a round arm action and as a lower order batsman was regarded as effective square of the wicket and against spin bowling. He made his Test début against New Zealand in 1946,taking a wicket with his second delivery. He was part of Donald Bradman's Invincibles team that toured England in 1948 but injury saw him miss selection in any of the Test matches.
Daryl Keith Henry Mitchell is an English former first-class cricketer. Primarily a right-handed batsman who often opened the innings,Mitchell also bowled right-arm medium pace. He played for Worcestershire. He was appointed vice-captain for the 2010 season,and made captain when Vikram Solanki resigned in mid-August.
The 2006 English cricket season was the 107th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. It included home international series for England against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. England came 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. The One Day International series against Pakistan and India both ended in losses.
George Owen Dawkes was a first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire between 1937 and 1939 and for Derbyshire between 1947 and 1961 as a wicket keeper and a lower-order right-handed batsman. During the 1949–50 season he toured India with a team of players making up a Commonwealth XI.
William Roy Genders was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1946,for Worcestershire from 1947 to 1948 and for Somerset in 1949.
The Professional Cricketers' Association is the representative body of past and present first-class cricketers in England and Wales,founded in 1967 by former England fast bowler Fred Rumsey. In the 1970s,the PCA arranged a standard employment contract and minimum wage for professional cricketers in first-class cricket in England and Wales. In 1995 it helped create a pension scheme for cricketers,and in 2002 launched the magazine All Out Cricket,as well as the ACE UK Educational Programme
Bernard William Quaife was an English first-class cricketer who played more than 300 matches between the wars. He played first for Warwickshire,but later found much more success at Worcestershire,where he became the usual wicket-keeper. He was the son of England Test player Willie Quaife.
Thomas Riley Armstrong was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1929 to 1950
William Territt Greswell was an English first-class cricketer who played for Somerset from 1908 to 1930. But his career as a tea-planter with the family company in Ceylon meant that he appeared in only 115 first-class matches for the county in that period,and was a regular player in only five seasons,dotted over almost 20 years.
Geoffrey Harold Hall was an English cricketer. He was born in Colne,Lancashire. During his career,he played for Somerset County Cricket Club,and made a total of 48 first-class appearances for the county.
Cleveland Vincent Lindo was a Jamaican cricketer. He played first-class cricket in one match for Nottinghamshire in 1960 and in another single match for Somerset in 1963. He was born at Bigwoods,St Elizabeth.
In the final round of group matches during the 1979 Benson &Hedges Cup,a one-day cricket competition,Somerset County Cricket Club faced Worcestershire County Cricket Club at New Road,Worcester,on 24 May 1979. The result of the match would help to determine which teams progressed to the quarter-finals. If Somerset lost and Glamorgan won their match,Somerset,Worcestershire and Glamorgan would have been level on points;bowling strike rate would have then been used as a tie-breaker. The Somerset team,led by their captain,Brian Rose,realised that if they batted first and declared the innings closed after just one over,it would protect their strike rate advantage to guarantee their qualification. Somerset scored one run from their over and declared;Worcestershire took ten deliveries to score the two runs they needed to win. The match was completed in 18 minutes,and consisted of only 16 legal deliveries.
The 2020 Bob Willis Trophy was a first-class cricket tournament held in the 2020 English cricket season,and the inaugural edition of the Bob Willis Trophy. It was separate from the County Championship,which was not held in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. The eighteen county cricket teams were split into three regional groups of six,with the two group winners with the most points advancing to a final held at Lord's. The maximum number of overs bowled in a day was reduced from 96 to 90,and the team's first innings could be no longer than 120 overs.
Sarah Glenn is an English cricketer who plays for the England women's cricket team as a leg break bowler. She also plays for Derbyshire,The Blaze,London Spirit and Brisbane Heat. After making her England debut in 2019,she played in the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup and broke into the top 10 of the ICC T20I Bowling Rankings later that year. In September 2022,she rose to second in the Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) bowling rankings.
The 2021 County Championship was the 121st cricket County Championship season in England and Wales. For the first phase of the tournament,the teams were split into three groups of six,with each side playing ten matches. The top two teams from each group progressed into Division One for the second phase of the competition,with the other teams progressing to Divisions Two and Three. The team that finished top of Division One became the county champions;and the top two teams from Division One contested a five-day match at Lord's for the Bob Willis Trophy. On 17 December 2020,the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed all the fixtures for the tournament. After completion of the group stage on 14 July 2021,the ECB confirmed the fixtures for the division stage on 22 July 2021.
Emily Louise Arlott is an English cricketer who currently plays for Worcestershire,Central Sparks and Birmingham Phoenix. She plays primarily as a right-arm medium-fast bowler. In June 2021,Arlott received her maiden call-up to the England women's cricket team,ahead of their home series against India.
