The National Counties, known as the Minor Counties before 2020, are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that do not have first-class status. The game is administered by the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), which comes under the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). There are currently twenty teams in National Counties cricket: nineteen representing historic counties of England, plus the Wales National County Cricket Club.
Chris Old is a former English cricketer, who played 46 Tests and 32 ODIs from 1972 to 1981. A right-arm fast-medium bowler and lower order left-handed batsman, Old was a key feature of the Yorkshire side between 1969 and 1983, before finishing his career at Warwickshire in 1985. As a Test bowler for England he took 143 wickets, and scored useful runs in the famous 1981 Ashes series' Headingley victory. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup.
James Thomas Anthony Bruce is an English cricketer. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler who is left-eye dominant, and a right-handed batsman.
James Charles Hildreth is a former English professional cricketer who played for Somerset County Cricket Club. He attended Millfield School, Somerset. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. Hildreth represented England at all youth levels including the 2003–04 Under-19 World cup held in Bangladesh. He made his first-class debut in 2003 and became a regular member of the side from the start of the 2004 season. The James Hildreth Stand was opened by him at Somerset County Cricket Ground on 21 September 2022.
Ian David Hunter is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.
Robin Michael Swann Weston is an English cricketer who played for Durham, Derbyshire, and Middlesex.
Colin Campbell was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Durham.
Nicholas Hatch is a former English cricketer. He played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler for Durham County Cricket Club between 2001 and 2003. He was born in Darlington.
Tahir Mahmood Mughal was a Pakistani cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a medium-fast bowler.
Michael Burns is an English first-class list cricket umpire and former first-class cricketer who played county cricket for Warwickshire and Somerset in a first-class career which spanned from 1992 until 2005. He also played Minor Counties cricket for Cumberland and Cornwall. An adaptable cricketer, he appeared for Cumberland and Warwickshire as a wicket-keeper, but when he moved to Somerset he developed into an aggressive batsman who bowled at medium-pace when needed.
Victor John Craven is an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire from 2000 to 2004.
Mitchell Eric Claydon is an Australian-English former first-class cricketer. Although he was born at Fairfield, New South Wales he holds a British passport. Claydon is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. Claydon most recently played for Sussex County Cricket Club. In July 2021, Claydon announced that he would retire from cricket at the end of the 2021 season.
Lee Daggett is an English former cricketer who played for Warwickshire, Leicestershire and Northants as a right-arm medium-pace bowler and a right-handed batsman.
James Lowe is a former English cricketer. He was a right-handed opening batsman and part time off-spin bowler who played for Durham. He was born in Bury St Edmunds but moved to Northallerton in North Yorkshire at an early age.
Ashley Michael Thorpe is an Australian former professional cricketer. He played as a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler for Durham County Cricket Club. He was born in Kiama, New South Wales but attended Kent Street Senior High School in Perth, Western Australia as part of their Specialist Cricket Program.
David Barrington Pennett is a former English cricketer. Pennett was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born at Leeds, Yorkshire.
Thomas Thompson is a former English cricketer. Thompson was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Workington, Cumberland.
Lord Hawke selected a cricket team of ten amateurs and two professional players to tour Australia and New Zealand from November 1902 until March 1903. After an opening game in San Francisco, the tour began of eighteen matches - seven of them considered first-class - in New Zealand followed by three further first-class games in Australia. Hawke's team was the first to tour Australasia with New Zealand as the primary destination and, as was the norm at the time, was privately run and funded. The Australian leg of the tour was a "profit making venture", however the games in New Zealand were scheduled at the behest of the New Zealand Cricket Board in order to raise the profile of cricket in the country. Two of them were against a New Zealand cricket team, before its international Test status. The inclusion of such games on the tour were considered "a sign that cricket in New Zealand was starting to be taken more seriously, and a move towards official international status was possible."
Harry William Podmore is an English professional cricketer who plays for Glamorgan County Cricket Club. A right-arm medium-fast bowler who bats right-handed, he played youth cricket for Middlesex and made his debut for the county in 2014 before spending time on loan with Glamorgan, Durham and Derbyshire over the next two seasons. He made his first-class cricket debut on 1 May 2016 in the 2016 County Championship and played for Kent between 2018 and 2022; he was awarded his county cap in 2019 and left the county at the end of the 2022 season, moving to Glamorgan.
Roland "Ronnie" Miller was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in 133 matches for Warwickshire between 1961 and 1968. He was born in Philadelphia, then in County Durham, now Tyne and Wear, and died at Nuneaton in Warwickshire.