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.
Somerset County Cricket Club played in Division Two of both the County Championship and the Sunday League in 2005. Somerset started at 10–1 to finish Division Two County Champions. Batting seems strong with Smith,Jayasuriya,Blackwell and Trescothick. But the same cannot be said of the bowling,which will find it difficult to dismiss teams twice on the flat Taunton pitch.
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.
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 2005 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and thirty-five years. They reached the semi-final in the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy. In the County Championship,they finished ninth in the second division and in the National League,they finished sixth in the second division. They were eliminated at group level in the North section of the Twenty20 Cup.
Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet was an English amateur cricketer who played for Somerset and Oxford University. A graceful right-handed batsman,he was selected to play Test cricket for England twice in 1902. Contemporaries judged Palairet to have one of the most attractive batting styles of the period. His obituary in The Times described him as "the most beautiful batsman of all time". An unwillingness to tour during the English winter limited Palairet's Test appearances;contemporaries believed he deserved more Test caps.
Mark Andrew Robinson is the current Warwickshire coach and a former English cricketer.
Alan Melville was a South African cricketer who played in 11 Tests from 1938 to 1949. He was born in Carnarvon,Northern Cape,South Africa and died at Sabie,Transvaal.
Michael Alexander Carberry is an English former professional cricketer who most recently played for Leicestershire County Cricket Club. Carberry is a left-handed opening batsman who bowls occasional right-arm off breaks.
David Bartlett Pithey was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in eight Tests for South Africa from 1963 to 1967. As well as playing for Rhodesia and Western Province,he played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Northamptonshire. Christopher Martin-Jenkins described him as "spasmodically brilliant". His brother,Tony,also played Test cricket for South Africa;they played together in five of the Tests on the 1963–64 tour of Australasia.
Roy Thomas Virgin is a former English cricketer who played for Somerset and Northamptonshire County Cricket Clubs.
Michael John Lumb is a former South African-born English cricketer,who played for Yorkshire,Hampshire,and Nottinghamshire at county level and England in Twenty20 International cricket and One Day International cricket. Born and raised in South Africa,Lumb is a left-handed opening batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He became only the second cricketer after Dennis Amiss to score a century on ODI debut for England and ninth player overall to do so. Lumb was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.
Christopher Gladwin is a retired English first-class cricketer who played for Essex County Cricket Club from 1981 to 1987,and for Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1989. He also played for Suffolk County Cricket Club in List A matches from 1988 to 1990. He was born at East Ham,Essex.
Alec James Swann is a former English cricketer who played for Northamptonshire and Lancashire in county cricket. A right handed batsman,he scored 3,305 first-class runs including eight centuries. He is the older brother of Graeme Swann and is a journalist who was the cricket correspondent of the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph.
Edward Mark Sprot was a Scottish first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Following a seven year commission with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry,Sprot played first-class cricket for Hampshire from 1898 to 1914,captaining the county from 1903 to 1914. As a captain,Sprot was known for his dynamic and unusual tactics,which sought to gain positive results from matches. In all,Sprot made 270 appearances in first-class cricket,scoring over 12,000 runs and making thirteen centuries. He additionally took 55 wickets,alongside taking 228 catches in the field. His first-class career came to an end with the beginning of the First World War.
Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1994 achieved the unprecedented feat of winning three trophies in an English domestic season. The treble included titles in the County Championship,Sunday League and Benson &Hedges Cup while the grand slam was narrowly missed as they lost to Worcestershire in the final of the Natwest Trophy. Wisden described it as the 'most remarkable season by any side in the history of county cricket'.
James Geoffrey Lomax played first-class cricket as a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler for Lancashire and Somerset between 1949 and 1962. He was born at Rochdale,then in Lancashire,and died at Frenchay Hospital,near Bristol.
The 1979 Gillette Cup Final was a cricket match between Somerset County Cricket Club and Northamptonshire County Cricket Club played on 8 September 1979 at Lord's in London. It was the seventeenth final of the Gillette Cup,which had been the first English domestic knock-out competition between first-class sides. Northamptonshire had won the competition in 1976;Somerset were playing their second consecutive final,having lost to Sussex in 1978.
Robert Strickland Gilbert Scott played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Sussex between 1930 and 1934. A right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler,he was Sussex captain in a few matches in 1932 and regularly in 1933,at first unofficially because of the ill-health of K. S. Duleepsinhji,and then as the official captain later in the 1933 season.
Arthur Keith Wilson was an English cricketer. Wilson was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break. He was born at Brighton,Sussex.
