Warwickshire County Cricket Club

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Warwickshire County Cricket Club
One-day name Birmingham Bears
founded 1882
Home stadium Edgbaston Cricket Ground
capacity 21,000
Championship wins 7th
One Day Cup victories FP Trophy : 5
National League : 3
B&H Cup : 2
ECB 40 : 1
RL Cup : 1
T20 Cup victories 1
website http://warwickshireccc.com
As of August 29, 2016

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

history

The beginnings

The origins of the teams that represented Warwickshire lie in the Wellesborne Cricket Club, which renamed itself Warwickshire in 1826. He played his games near what is now Warwick Racecourse in Warwick , before retiring to Wellesborne . The first game on record today (most pre-county club-era records have been lost in the past) took place in Coventry in 1843 on Highfield Road (home to Coventry City until 2005 ) . The County Cricket Club was founded in 1882 on the initiative of a teacher from Birmingham, William Ansell, who organized a meeting at the Regent Hotel in Leamington Spa . There were long discussions about the location of the association. Ultimately, the choices were Leamington and Birmingham and the latter was ultimately chosen. Four years later the Edgbaston Cricket Ground was founded and the first games were played against other selections in the counties. However, this was not enough to participate in the County Championship founded in 1890 , and to achieve first-class status.

The beginning of the County Championship

Entry into the County Championship took place in 1895 . At first, Warwickshire started poorly in first-class cricket . Although the team had a strong batting team to offer, bowling was not competitive. This improved from 1899 when Sam Hargreave and Frank Field joined the team. For the next few years until 1906 they were able to establish themselves in the upper half of the County Championship. Several weak years followed before they won the first championship in 1911 . The star of the team was their captain Frank Foster , who managed 1,383 runs and 116 wickets. In the remaining seasons before the First World War, however, they slipped back into the middle third of the table. After the war, Warwickshire continued to slide. Foster had an accident that ended his career and so one remained with a few exceptions in the 1920s in the lower half of the table. In the 1930s you could re-establish yourself in the middle of the table and in 1934 managed a fourth place. The three bowlers Joseph Mayer , George Paine and Eric Hollies were primarily responsible for this performance . However, Paine in particular could not keep up the level and so much up until World War II and the first few years thereafter.

After the Second World War

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

After the war came from 1948 the New Zealander Tom Pritchard in the team, which stabilized the bowling again. So you found yourself back in the upper half of the table. In 1951 , bowler Charlie Groves got 103 wickets in his final season, securing Warwickshire's second championship with these performances. However, this time too, the success was not stable. The batting got worse and so one slipped back into the lower regions of the table. A fourth place was only achieved in 1959 before the decade was over when Mike Smith impressed with his batting. In the 1960s it started off weakly, but was able to stabilize over the course of the decade. Several challenging places were completed with second place in 1964 . So you could at least establish yourself in the upper half of the table. The newly introduced one-day cricket also brought new opportunities and so the team won the Gillette Cup twice ( 1966 , 1968 ). Players like Dennis Amiss , the West Indians Lance Gibbs , Rohan Kanhai and Alvin Kallicharan made the team one of the strongest, so that Warwickshire could secure the third championship of the County Championship in 1972 .

Unsuccessful years and the rise to the top team

As before, winning a championship was the beginning of a long dry spell. For years they were at the bottom of the table and in the one-day championships only in 1980 won the John Player League . Good players, like Bob Willis , were part of the national team and so they finished the County Championship in 1981 and 1982 for the first time bottom of the table. It was not until the late 1980s that the team experienced a rise again. In 1989 they won the NatWest Trophy and with the engagement of Bob Woolmer as coach and captain Dermot Reeve they established themselves among the top teams in both one-day and first-class cricket. It started with winning the NatWest Trophy in 1993 . In 1994 Brian Lara was engaged , who in April on a tour against England had set the record with 375 runs in one innings in the test of cricket . The season was outstanding for the team. Not only did they win two of the three one-day trophies with the AXA Equity & Law League and the Benson & Hedges Cup , but also the County Championchip . Only in the NatWest Trophy did they narrowly fail against Worcestershire in the final. Brian Lara once again attracted attention when he set the new world record in first-class cricket with 501 not out in the County Championship game against Durham . In the following year it was the South African Allan Donald who scored 89 wickets for Warwickshire and so the title of County Championchip could be defended. The overall fifth victory of the NatWest Trophy was achieved . Another trophy was narrowly missed in the final of the AXA Equity & Law League . After this high-altitude flight, the AXA Life League was won again in 1997 , but a relegation in the County Championship could no longer be avoided. When the championship was split into two divisions in 2000 , you found yourself in the second division.

The new millennium

From the 2001 season, the team was able to establish itself again in the top English cricket. So one rose in the year in the first division of the County Championship. In 2002, in addition to a second place in the first-class league, he also won the last edition of the Benson & Hedges Cup . Captain Nick Knight used a defensive strategy in 2004 when the team ended 11 of 16 games in the County Championship in a draw. However, since they did not lose a game, they were champions at the end of the season. However, this success did not last either, because in 2007 the first division was relegated again. Then you brought big changes in the team and the management level of the club and rose again in 2008 as first in the second division. In 2010 they won the Clydesdale Bank 40 and in 2012 they won the County Championship for the seventh time. For the 2014 season, the club decided amid protests to rename its one-day team to Birmingham Bears , making it the only county cricket club to use a city name for one of its teams instead of the traditional county name. The first success in the Twenty20 Cup was in the same season . In the 2016 season they managed to beat Surrey in the final of the Royal London One-Day Cup with a unified team performance .

Stadion

The club's home ground is the Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham . Other cricket fields have been used for home games in the past, but not in recent years.

successes

County cricket

Winning the County Championship (7): 1911 , 1951 , 1972 , 1994 , 1995 , 2004 , 2012

One-day cricket

Gilette / NatWest / C & G Trophy / FP Trophy (1963-2009) (5): 1966 , 1968 , 1989 , 1993 , 1995

Sunday / National / Pro40 League (1969-2009) (3): 1980 , 1994 , 1997

Benson & Hedges Cup (1972-2002) (2): 1994 , 2002

ECB 40 / Clydesdale Bank / Yorkshire Bank 40 (2010-2013) (1): 2010

Royal London One-Day Cup (2014-present) (1): 2016

Twenty20

Twenty20 Cup / Friends Life t20 / NatWest t20 Blast (1): 2014

statistics

Runs

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

player Playing times Runs
Dennis Amiss 1960-1987 35,146
Willie Quaife 1894-1928 33,987
Mike Smith 1956-1975 27,672
Tim Dollery 1934-1955 23,479
Bob Wyatt 1923-1939 21,687

Wickets

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

player Playing times Runs
Eric Hollies 1932-1955 2,201
Sydney Santall 1894-1914 1,207
Jack Bannister 1950-1968 1,181
Danny Mayer 1926-1939 1,142
Tom Cartwright 1952-1969 1,058

Web links

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

official website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Sam Collins: A brief history of Warwickshire ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Almost 200 years of greatness ( English ) BBC. April 14, 2005. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  3. ↑ Other matches played by Warwickshire (pre County Club) ( English ) Cricinfo. January 29, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i About Us ( English ) Warwickshire CCC. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 29, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / warwickshireccc.com
  5. ↑ England tour of West Indies, 5th Test: West Indies v England at St John's, Apr 16-21, 1994 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  6. ↑ Martin Williamson: The world record that nearly wasn't ( English ) Cricinfo. April 19, 2014. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  7. ↑ 501 not out ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  8. ↑ Alan Wilson: Warwickshire cricket fans in uproar over name change to Birmingham BEARS ( English ) Cricinfo. November 28, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  9. ↑ Ged Scott: One-Day Cup: Warwickshire thrash Surrey in Lord's final ( English ) BBC. September 17, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  10. ↑ Most runs for Warwickshire ( English ) Cricket archives. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  11. ↑ Most wickets for Warwickshire ( English ) Cricket archives. Retrieved August 29, 2016.