Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Worcestershire. Its Vitality Blast T20 team has been rebranded the Worcestershire Rapids,but the county is known by most fans as 'the Pears'. The club is based at New Road,Worcester. Founded in 1865,Worcestershire held minor status at first and was a prominent member of the early Minor Counties Championship in the 1890s,winning the competition three times. In 1899,the club joined the County Championship and the team was elevated to first-class status. Since then,Worcestershire have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.
The NatWest Pro40 League was a one-day cricket league for first-class cricket counties in England and Wales. It was inaugurated in 1999,but was essentially the old Sunday League retitled to reflect large numbers of matches being played on days other than Sunday.
The Friends Provident Trophy was a one-day cricket competition in the United Kingdom.
Moeen Munir Ali is an English cricketer who serves as vice-captain for England in limited overs cricket. He played Test cricket for England between 2014 and 2023,when he became only the 16th person to hit 3,000 runs and take 200 wickets in Tests. In domestic cricket he represents Warwickshire,having previously played for Worcestershire. He has also played in multiple Twenty20 leagues,including for Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League.
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.
Adam Lyth is a former English Test cricketer,who has played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club since 2007. He is a left-handed opening batsman.
Gary Simon Ballance is a Zimbabwean former cricketer who represented England internationally from 2013 to 2017,and also represented Zimbabwe in 2023. He is a left-handed batsman and a leg break bowler,who last played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He was born in Harare,Zimbabwe. He is known for his style of striking deep in the crease. He qualified to play for England through residency and British passports.
The 2011 Friends Life t20 was the second season of the Friends Life t20,England's premier domestic Twenty20 competition. The season ran from 1 June to 27 August 2011. The teams in the tournament remained the same as the previous season.
Jordan Clark is an English cricketer. Clark is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace and who occasionally fields as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Whitehaven,Cumbria and was educated at Sedbergh School.
Alex Lloyd Hughes is a retired English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. Born in Wordsley,West Midlands,he played county cricket for Derbyshire between 2011 and 2022.
Jacob Daniel Libby is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman who plays for Worcestershire.
The 2017 Royal London One-Day Cup tournament was a limited overs cricket competition that forms part of the 2017 domestic cricket season in England and Wales. Matches were contested over 50 overs per side and had List A cricket status. All eighteen First-class counties competed in the tournament which ran from the end of April with the final taking place at Lord's on 1 July. Nottinghamshire won the tournament,defeating Surrey in the final. The defending champions were Warwickshire.
The 2019 Vitality Blast is the 2019 season of the t20 Blast,a professional Twenty20 cricket league that was played in England and Wales. It was the second season in which the domestic T20 competition,run by the ECB,has been branded as the Vitality Blast due to a new sponsorship deal. The league consisted of the 18 first-class county teams divided into two divisions of nine teams each with fixtures played,slightly later than usual,between July and September. Finals Day took place at Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham on 21 September 2019. Worcestershire Rapids were the defending champions.
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.
The 2020 Vitality Blast was the 2020 season of the t20 Blast,a professional Twenty20 cricket league being played in England and Wales. It was the third season in which the domestic T20 competition,run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB),which was branded as the Vitality Blast due to the tournament's sponsorship deal. On 12 August 2020,following a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic,the ECB confirmed the fixtures for the tournament.
The 2021 Vitality Blast was the 2021 season of the T20 Blast,a professional Twenty20 cricket league played in England and Wales. It was the fourth season in which the domestic T20 competition,run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB),that was branded as the Vitality Blast due to the tournament's sponsorship deal. The Notts Outlaws were the defending champions.
Seren Anna Smale is a Welsh cricketer who currently plays for Lancashire,North West Thunder and Southern Brave. She plays as a right-handed batter and wicket-keeper. She has previously played for Cheshire,as well as making appearances for North Representative XI and Cumbria in 2021.
The 2022 Vitality Blast was the 2022 season of the T20 Blast,a professional Twenty20 cricket league played in England and Wales. The tournament was held from 25 May to 16 July 2022. It was the fifth season in which the domestic T20 competition,run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB),was branded as the Vitality Blast due to the tournament's sponsorship reason. The Kent Spitfires were the defending champions,having won their second title during previous season. On 20 January 2022,the ECB announced the fixtures for the tournament.
The 2023 Vitality Blast was the 2023 season of the T20 Blast,a professional Twenty20 cricket league played in England and Wales. The tournament was held from 20 May to 15 July 2023. It was the sixth season in which the domestic T20 competition,run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB),is branded as the Vitality Blast due to the tournament's sponsorship. The Hampshire Hawks were the defending champions,having won their third title during the previous season. On 30 November 2022,the ECB announced the fixtures for the tournament.
The 2023 season was Glamorgan County Cricket Club's 136th year in existence and their 102nd as a first-class cricket county. They competed in the Second Division of the County Championship,as well as Group B of the One-Day Cup and the South Group of the T20 Blast. Just two of their fourteen County Championship matches produced results,meaning they finished in fifth place in the eight-team division;meanwhile,they failed to capitalise on a good start in the T20 Blast,winning four of their first five matches before losing eight of their next nine to finish eighth out of the nine teams in the South Group. In the One-Day Cup,they failed to put together any consistent form;they won four of their eight matches,finishing in fourth place,three points behind Gloucestershire and Worcestershire in quarter-final places. Glamorgan played two 50-over matches at The Gnoll in Neath for the second year in a row,while also not returning to Penrhyn Avenue in Rhos-on-Sea for the fourth year in a row.
