Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

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Gloucestershire County Cricket Club
One-day name Gloucestershire
founded 1870
Home stadium Bristol County Ground
capacity 8,000
other stages College Ground , Cheltenham
Championship wins 0
One Day Cup victories FP Trophy : 5
National League : 1
B&H Cup : 3
ECB 40 : 1
RL Cup : 1
T20 Cup victories 0
website http://www.gloscricket.co.uk
As of September 15, 2016

The Gloucestershire County Cricket Club represents the traditional county Gloucestershire in the national championships in English cricket .

history

The founding phase

Flat share Grace

The first documented game played in Gloucester took place in September 1729. More information about cricket in Gloucestershire is then known from the 1860s. A team called Gloucestershire played against a team from Devon in 1862 . In 1863 the Cheltenham and County of Gloucester Cricket Club was founded , one of the forerunners of the County Cricket Club, which was officially founded in 1870. The Grace family, known long before as the cricket family, was largely responsible for this. Dr Henry Mills Grace had laid another crucial foundation for this with the establishment of the Mangotsfield Cricket Club . This then merged with the Coalpit Heath CC and formed the West Gloucestershire CC , which then finally traded under Gloucestershire County Cricket. The first county game took place on June 2, 1870 against Surrey . William Grace, better known by his initials WG Grace , the son of Henry Mills Grace, was the captain of the team during that game and would remain so for more than twenty years. The Cheltenham Cricket Festival was held for the first time in 1872 and to this day the club has played two county matches at the College Ground in Cheltenham . From 1873 Gloucestershire then played in the unofficial County Championship and won the title together with Nottingham in the first edition . Gloucestershire was an amateur team until 1876, while other teams had taken this step earlier. Billy Midwinter was the club's first professional player. WG Grace was together with his brothers Edward (EM) and Fred (GF) the decisive player during this time. Gloucestershire remained very successful, won the unofficial championship in 1876 and 1877 and only lost their first home game in 1878 against an Australian selection. In 1879 it was proposed that the games that had previously been played in Cheltenham should also be held in Bristol, which the County Committee rejected. Fred Grace died in 1880 and Gloucestershire could no longer build on the successes. From 1884 Henry Mills Grace tried to lease land for a county ground, but the chosen site on which Bristol Rovers later built its long-lived Eastville Stadium was rejected in 1887. It was then decided in 1888 to buy land at what is now the Bristol County Ground on Nevil Road, where home games were played from 1889.

County Championship

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club performance in First Class, One-Day and T20 Cricket in the English National Competitions.

From the 1890 season Gloucestershire took part in the newly established County Championship and stayed the first few years in the lower half of the table. A third place was achieved in 1898 , before WG Grace resigned from his captaincy the following year, after 51 Centuries for the club. Until the First World War, the club remained mostly in the lower half of the table. Players who dominated the team at this time were Gilbert Jessop , Charlie Townsend , William Brain and Frederick G. Roberts . About the First World War bowler played Charlie Parker , who remained in the club until 1933. In the county championship, the club stabilized in midfield, who sold their county ground in 1919 before repurchasing it in 1933. Mainly responsible for this was Batsman Wally Hammond , who was eligible to play for the club from 1923. This led Gloucestershire season 1930 and season 1931 each to second places in the county championship. He achieved a total of 113 Centuries for the club. Up until the Second World War, placements in the midfield were the rule and in the last pre-war season of 1939 , a third place was achieved again. After the war, the 1947 season again came second before the club fell back into midfield for most of the 1950s. The most important player of the time was Tom Graveney , who brought the team back to second place in the table as the new captain in 1959 . A year later, the team was placed back in midfield and Graveney lost his captaincy and then left the club for Worcestershire . The club tumbled to last place twice in the mid-1960s ( 1965 , 1968 ) before coming second again in 1969 . At that time, the South African Mike Procter, an overseas player, came to the team, who dominated the team so strongly that fans pleaded for the club to be renamed Proctershire . This up and down was repeated in the following years and with the introduction of one-day cricket in 1973 , winning the Gilette Cup, the first title since the 1870s. During that decade, the club also won the 1977 Benson & Hedges Cup and placed third in the County Championship three times ( 1972 , 1976 , 1977 ). The 1980s got off to a disappointing start, with a last place in 1984 being the low point. A third and a second place will be achieved in the two following seasons . The Pakistani Zaheer Abbas had a decisive influence at that time . He was followed as an overseas player by the Jamaican Courtney Walsh who played successfully for the club for 14 years. He determined together with the future captain Jack Russell the game of the club.

Success in one-day cricket

After the final decline in first-class cricket in the 1990s, the club's golden age began at the end of the decade. Jack Russell gave up his captaincy, but stayed with the club. Under captain Mark Alleyne , the club won the NatWest Trophy and the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1999 . These two titles could be repeated in 2000 and the Norwich Union National League was also won. In 2003 and 2004 the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy followed. These two seasons were also the only ones in which Gloucestershire was able to achieve success in first-class cricket, after it had been sorted into the second after being divided into two divisions in the 2000 season . In 2003 they were promoted to the first division and in 2004 they were relegated before relegation in 2005 . Since then, the club remained in the second division. The last success followed in 2015 when the club won the Royal London One-Day Cup under Michael Klinger .

Stadion

The club's home ground is the Bristol County Ground in Bristol . Furthermore, the College Ground in Cheltenham is still used as a home today.

successes

County cricket

One-day cricket

Twenty20

statistics

Runs

Most of the first-class cricket runs were scored by the following players:

player Playing times Runs
Wally Hammond 1920-1951 33,664
Arthur Milton 1948-1974 30,218
Alfred Dipper 1908-1932 27,948
Ron Nicholls 1951-1975 23,607
Martin Young 1949-1964 23,400

Wickets

Most of the wickets in first-class cricket were scored by the following players:

player Playing times Runs
Charlie Parker 1903-1935 3,170
Tom Goddard 1922-1952 2,862
George Dennett 1903-1926 2,082
Sam Cook 1946-1964 1,768
John Mortimore 1950-1975 1,696

Web links

Commons : Gloucestershire County Cricket Club  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

official website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Sam Collins: A brief history of Gloucestershire ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e H. F. Hutt: The great men of Gloucestershire ( English ) Wisden. 1957. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e GCCC History ( English ) Gloucestershire Cricket. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 15, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gloscricket.co.uk
  4. ^ Gloucestershire v Surrey in 1870 ( English ) Cricket Archives. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ Martin Williamson: County Ground ( English ) Cricinfo. January 29, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  6. ↑ England / Players / Wally Hammond ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  7. ↑ Thomas William Graveney ( English ) Wisden. January 29, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ Jim White: England v South Africa: Mike Procter generation denied chance to rule the world ( English ) Telegraph. July 16, 2012. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  9. ↑ Gloucestershire claim Lord's treble ( English ) BBC. June 10, 2000. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  10. ↑ Scyld Berry: Royal London One Day Cup: Gloucestershire beat Surrey by six runs in utterly madcap final ( English ) BBC. September 19, 2015. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  11. ↑ Most runs for Gloucestershire ( English ) Cricket archives. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  12. ↑ Most wickets for Gloucestershire ( English ) Cricket archives. Retrieved August 28, 2016.