Worcestershire County Cricket Club
| Worcestershire County Cricket Club | |
|---|---|
| One-day name | Worcestershire |
| founded | 1865 |
| Home stadium | New Road |
| capacity | 5,500 |
| Championship wins | 5 |
| One Day Cup victories | FP Trophy : 5 National League : 4 B&H Cup : 1 ECB 40 : 1 RL Cup : 0 |
| T20 Cup victories | 0 |
| website | http://wccc.co.uk |
| As of September 4, 2016 | |
The Worcestershire County Cricket Club represents the traditional county of Worcestershire in the national championships of English cricket .
history
The beginnings
Teams that competed under the name Worcestershire have been known since the 1840s. For example, a team played in Powick Hams in June 1848 against an All-England Eleven led by William Clarke . The County Cricket Club was founded on March 4, 1865 at The Star Hotel in Worcester . After it was founded, the club initially played rather insignificant games. This only changed with the arrival of Paul Foley . He tried to increase the seriousness in the team and founded with others in 1895 the Minor County Championships , the subordinate competition for county teams behind the county championship to this day . Worcestershire was immediately very successful in this competition. So you won the first four editions, the first being shared with Norfolk and Durham . The games were being played at Boughton Park in Worcester at the time .
Participation in the County Championship
Due to these successes, the promotion to first-class county followed in the 1899 season . In addition, Foley was looking for a new home for the club and rented three sheep meadows from the church, from which today's New Road stadium was built. The first captain of the first-class team was Harry Foster , who, like his six brothers later, strongly influenced the club's early days and earned the club the nickname Fostershire . In the first few years the club struggled. Only in 1907 did you get a result in the top of the table when you finished second in the championship. After this success, the team fell back and placed in 1912 for the first time as bottom of the table. This brought the club into financial difficulties and after it was discovered during the 1913 season that it had made losses every season since its promotion, the club was on the verge of extinction. Only a public appeal for donations could secure its existence. After the First World War, the team was so weakened that they could not participate in the first post-war edition of the County Championship in 1919 . In the following years the team was basically one of the worst in the league. Until the Second World War it was only enough in the last season before the war in 1939 with a seventh place for the top half of the table. However, during this time new players such as the bowlers Peter Jackson , Roly Jenkins , Dick Howarth and Reg Perks came into the team, who should bring the team a promotion after the war.
After the Second World War
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In the last 1940s, the team managed regular placements in the top half of the table and in 1949 came third. However, you could not keep the level and from 1952 to 1960 you mostly placed in the lower half of the table. Only then did the big breakthrough come. A second place in 1962 was followed by the first wins of the County Championship in 1964 and 1965 . One-day cricket also started at this time , and Worcestershire was soon to establish itself as successful. At the first edition of the Gillette Cup in 1963 , the team reached the final against Sussex , and in 1966 this could be repeated. Outstanding players of this time were Norman Gifford , Tom Graveney , Jack Flavell , Len Coldwell and Basil D'Oliveira who led the club to success under the leadership of President George Dowty and Captain Don Kenyon . Further successes followed in the 1970s. 1971 succeeded in winning the John Player League , while in the County Championship were initially only achieved moderate success. That changed in 1974 when the third success in first-class cricket was celebrated. Players like John Inchmore and David Humphries came into the team, but until the mid-1980s there was hardly any good results.
The second golden phase
In 1987 the club brought in Graham Dilley from Kent and Ian Botham from Somerset . Together with Graeme Hick it was possible to build a series of successes. In 1987 they won the Refuge Assurance League, which could be repeated the following year . In addition, he won the County Championship in 1988 . This victory was repeated a year later . At the beginning of the 1990s, the first victory of the Benson & Hedges Cup was achieved in 1991 . The last win in this series was the 1994 NatWest Trophy with which the team prevented Warwickshire from winning all of the season's trophies. After the successes there was a lot of ups and downs in the championship. This ultimately led to the fact that one was initially divided into the second division when the County Championship was divided into two leagues for the 2000 season . Since then, you've been up and down there five times. 2007 saw the next success with winning the NatWest Pro40, for which Steven Davies , Moeen Ali and Stephen Moore were mainly responsible. In 2014 and 2018 he won the Twenty20 Cup .
Stadion
The club's home ground is New Road in Worcester . Other stadiums have been used in the past, such as Chester Road North Ground in Kidderminster .
successes
County cricket
Winning the County Championship (5): 1964 , 1965 , 1974 , 1988 , 1989
One-day cricket
Gilette / NatWest / C & G Trophy / FP Trophy (1963-2009) (1): 1994
Sunday / National / Pro40 League (1969–2009) (4): 1971 , 1987 , 1988 , 2007
Benson & Hedges Cup (1972-2002) (1): 1991
ECB 40 / Clydesdale Bank / Yorkshire Bank 40 (2010-2013) (0): -
Royal London One-Day Cup (2014-present) (0): -
Twenty20
Twenty20 Cup / Friends Life t20 / NatWest t20 Blast (1): 2014 , 2018
statistics
Runs
Most of the first-class cricket runs were scored by the following players:
| player | Playing times | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Don Kenyon | 1946-1967 | 34,490 |
| Graeme Hick | 1984-2008 | 31,149 |
| Glenn Turner | 1967-1982 | 22,298 |
| Alan Ormrod | 1962-1983 | 21,753 |
| Harold Gibbons | 1927-1946 | 20,918 |
Wickets
Most of the wickets in first-class cricket were scored by the following players:
| player | Playing times | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Reg Perks | 1930-1955 | 2.143 |
| Norman Gifford | 1960-1982 | 1,615 |
| Jack Flavell | 1949-1967 | 1,507 |
| Fred Root | 1921-1932 | 1,387 |
| Dick Howorth | 1933-1951 | 1,274 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Worcestershire v All England Eleven in 1848 ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d A brief history of Worcestershire ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ↑ Minor County Championship ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ↑ Steven Lynch: Gentlemen, let's pray ( English ) Cricinfo. July 16, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ↑ a b Chris Oldnall: County Cult Heroes - Worcestershire ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ↑ a b Cricket ( English ) Worcestershire County Cricket Club. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ↑ Mike Selvey: Fifty years ago the very first Gillette Cup changed cricket for ever ( English ) Guardian. May 1, 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ↑ Martin Johnson: Cricket / Natwest Trophy: Hick and Moody destroy grand slam dream: Worcestershire pair's 198-run partnership off 212 deliveries puts paid to Warwickshire's title clean sweep ( English ) Independent. September 5, 1994. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ↑ Worcestershire clinch Pro40 title ( English ) BBC. September 13, 2007. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ↑ Most runs for Worcestershire ( English ) Cricket archives. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ Most wickets for Worcestershire ( English ) Cricket archives. Retrieved August 28, 2016.