List of Worcestershire County Cricket Club players

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This is a list in alphabetical order of cricketers who have played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club in top-class matches since 1899 when the club joined the County Championship and the team was elevated to official first-class status. [1] Worcestershire has been classified as a List A team since the beginning of limited overs cricket in 1963 [2] and as a top-level Twenty20 team since the inauguration of the Twenty20 Cup in 2003. [3]

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The details are the player's usual name followed by the years in which he was active as a Worcestershire player and then his name is given as it would appear on modern match scorecards. Note that many players represented other top-class teams besides Worcestershire and that some played for the club in minor counties cricket before 1899. Current players are shown as active to the latest season in which they played for the club. [4] The list excludes Second XI and other players who did not play for the club's first team and players whose first team appearances were in minor matches only. [5] The list has been updated to the end of the 2021 cricket season using the data published in Playfair Cricket Annual, 2022 edition. [6]

As of 27 October 2023

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See also

Notes

  1. Amjad was born in 1971 at Marston Green in Warwickshire and made a single first-class appearance against South Africa A in 1996, scoring eight runs. He had played Second XI cricket for Warwickshire, Derbyshire and Somerset as well as Worcestershire and went on to play Minor Counties cricket for Cornwall in 1998. [7]
  2. Baker played twice for the county in 1920, both appearances coming in County Championship matches. Other than a surname and initial, no biographical details are known. [8] [9]
  3. Cullen played in four List A matches for the county in 2022. He was born at Redditch in 2003 and has played for Herefordshire. [10]
  4. Edavalath made his first-class debut for the county in June 2023. He was born at Wolverhampton in 2004 and educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme School and Malvern College. [11]
  5. Evitts, who was born in 2005 at Lichfield, played a single List A match for the county during the 2022 season. [12]
  6. Jones played a single List A match for the county in 2023. He was born at Wolverhampton in 2005. [13]
  7. Mehraj was born in January 1989 at Birmingham and played club cricket in the city. A right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler he played for the county Second XI from 2006 before making his List A debut in May 2008, and his first-class debut against Loughborough UCCE in the same week. He played one more first-class match the following season. In total he took three wickets for the county in senior cricket. [14]
  8. Morris was born in 1890 at Kington in Herefordshire and educated at Hereford Cathedral School before working as a bank clerk, later becoming a bank manager. He played a single first-class match for the county, scoring 74 runs, with a highest score of 71, against Leicestershire in 1914. He died at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire in 1965. [15]
  9. Williams played four matches for the side in 1927. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known. [16]

References

  1. "First-class events played by Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  2. "List A events played by Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  3. "Twenty20 matches played by Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  4. Ian Marshall (ed.). Playfair Cricket Annual (2019 ed.). Headline. pp. 197–201.
  5. "Worcestershire players". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  6. Ian Marshall, ed. (7 April 2022). Playfair Cricket Annual 2022 (2022 ed.). Headline. p. 185189. ISBN   978-1-4722-9086-1.
  7. "Player profile: Mohammed Amjad". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
  8. W Baker, CricInfo. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  9. W Baker, CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 April 2021. (subscription required)
  10. Henry Cullen, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2023-10-27. (subscription required)
  11. Rehaan Edavalath, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2023-10-27. (subscription required)
  12. Reeve Evitts, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2023-10-27. (subscription required)
  13. Cameron Jones, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2023-10-27. (subscription required)
  14. Mehraj Ahmed, CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 October 2023. (subscription required)
  15. Percy Morris, CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 October 2023. (subscription required)
  16. H Williams, CricInfo. Retrieved 8 November 2022.