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Warwickshire County Cricket Club start 2005 as defending county champions and 11–4 favourites to retain their title. They play their totesport League cricket in Division Two. Warwickshire won the title in 2004 through their batting,and they have further enhanced it with the addition of Alex Loudon.
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.
Glamorgan County Cricket Club started their 2005 season as defending totesport League champions,but the 2005 season ended without a trophy –instead,they suffered relegation in the first-class form. They played their first-class cricket in the First Division of the County Championship. They started the Championship season at 25–1 to win,and favourites to be relegated –which they eventually were,winning one of sixteen games in the Championship season to finish bottom –nearly 100 points behind the first team to avoid relegation. By the end of August,they had confirmed relegation with three games remaining. In the National League,they hovered around mid-table for most of the season,before a run of three unbeaten games at the end of August sent them out of the relegation zone,and they finished the season in fourth place. In the C&G Trophy,they were knocked out at the second round stage by eventual champions Hampshire,while the Twenty20 campaign saw them finish bottom of their group with two wins from eight matches.
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club in 2005 are playing their cricket in Division Two of the County Championship and Division One of the totesport League. They started the season at 12–1 to win the Division Two title. During the off season 9 players left.
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.
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club played their cricket in 2005 in Division One of both the County Championship and the totesport League. They started the season at 7–1 to win the title,and with a new captain,New Zealand's Stephen Fleming.
Worcestershire County Cricket Club in 2005 played their County Championship games in Division Two and their Totesport League games in Division One. Under their new captain,Vikram Solanki,they were tipped to go straight back up to the top flight of the County Championship and started the season 9–2 second favourites to end up as Division Two champions.
Hampshire County Cricket Club played their cricket in Division One of both the County Championship and the National League in 2005. They started the season at 10–1 odds to win the Championship. With the first eleven including seven players who had represented their country at Test or ODIs at the end of the season,they nearly won the County Championship,beating eventual County Champions Nottinghamshire both home and away,and ended with the same win–loss record as Notts. However,with two bonus points less and half a point deducted due to a slow over rate against Sussex in July,they finished behind –something that had been apparent the week before the Championship ended. They did win the C&G Trophy,defeating three League Division Two sides and a minor county on the way to the title,in addition to Glamorgan from Division One,but their other limited-overs forays ended in relegation and elimination due to head-to-head results in the Twenty20 Cup.
Surrey County Cricket Club in 2005 are playing 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 for 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.
Middlesex 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 season at 9–1 to win the County Championship title.
Twenty20 cricket is played over 20 overs according to normal limited-over rules,the one exception being the rule for "timed out",where the time by which an incoming batsman must be at the crease ready to receive his first ball is reduced to 90 seconds after the outgoing batsman has been dismissed. This amendment to the rules helps speed up the game. Additionally,boundary ropes tend to be shorter in Twenty20 cricket than for normal limited over games.
Robert James Kirtley is a former English Test cricketer. He is a right arm fast medium bowler and a right hand batsman. After prep school at St. Andrews School,Eastbourne,he was educated at Clifton College.
Malcolm Andrew Nash was a Welsh cricket player and coach. He played first-class cricket for Glamorgan. Nash was a left-arm medium-pace bowler and useful lower-order left-handed batsman. He made his debut for the county in 1966 and was released by the county after the 1983 season. He captained the county in 1980 and 1981. He took the most wickets for Glamorgan in 1969 when it won the county championship. In 1985,he played his last one-day match for Shropshire. Between 1966 and 1983 in his 17 years career,Nash took 993 first-class wickets,scored 7,129 runs and held 148 catches. He died on 30 July 2019 in London at the age of 74 years.
Oswald William"Lofty" Herman was an English first-class cricketer and cricket umpire. Herman played county cricket either side of the Second World War for Hampshire,taking over 1,000 wickets as a right-arm fast-medium and later off break bowler,whilst also scoring over 4,000 runs. He later became an umpire,standing in over 200 first-class and 50 List A one-day matches.
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.
Richard James Edward Hindley is a former English first-class cricketer.
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- ↑ Matthew Scott, Cricinfo. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
- ↑ Matthew Scott, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2023-04-22. (subscription required)
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