List of Gloucestershire cricket captains

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club are an English cricket club based in Bristol. The club has played first-class cricket since 1870 against Surrey.[1] The club have played both List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket since their introductions into the English game in 1963 and 2003 respectively.

W. G. Grace was the first club captain of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

The county were captained for their first 29 years of first-class cricket by W. G. Grace, whose family had helped form the club.[1] The 359 first-class matches which he captained are the most by any player, eclipsing the combined 327 matches of Mark Alleyne, who led the county in all three formats of the game. Alleyne captained the county during its most prosperous spell, during which time they won eight one-day trophies.[2] Gloucestershire have never won the official County Championship, but have runners-up on a number of occasions.[3] They achieved this twice under the captaincy of Bev Lyon, whose captaincy was the primary factor in him being named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1931. Wisden noted that he was "a possible England captain," though he never went on to appear for England.[4]

The majority of Gloucestershire's captains have been English, only Mike Procter and Courtney Walsh have played international cricket for a different nation. Walter Troup, Cyril Sewell and George Emmett were all born outside of the United Kingdom, but within the British Empire. Three members of the Graveney family captained the county: Tom Graveney from 1959 to 1960, his brother Ken Graveney from 1963 to 1964, and the latter's son David Graveney between 1982 and 1988.[5]

Key
  • Years denotes the years in which the player was named as official club captain for Gloucestershire.
  • First denotes the date of the first match in which the player captained Gloucestershire.
  • Last denotes the date of the last match in which the player captained Gloucestershire.
  • FC denotes the number of first-class matches in which the player captained Gloucestershire.
  • LA denotes the number of List A matches in which the player captained Gloucestershire.
  • T20 denotes the number of Twenty20 matches in which the player captained Gloucestershire.
  • Total denotes the total number of first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches in which the player captained Gloucestershire.

Official captains
No. Name Nationality Years First Last FC LA T20 Total Refs
1 W. G. Grace  England1870–189928 July 187025 May 1899 359––359 [6]
2 Walter Troup  England189915 May 189929 June 1911 21––21 [7]
3 Gilbert Jessop  England1900–191214 May 19004 August 1913 252––252 [8]
4 Cyril Sewell  England1913–191423 May 191231 August 1914 47––47 [9]
5 Foster Robinson  England1919–192123 May 191930 August 1922 62––62 [10]
6 Philip Williams  England1922–192330 June 192020 May 1925 49––49 [11]
7 Douglas Robinson  England1924–192611 June 192121 August 1926 86––86 [12]
8 William Rowlands  England1927–192828 May 192125 August 1928 60––60 [13]
9 Bev Lyon  England1929–193429 May 192619 August 1939 128––128 [14]
10 Dallas Page  England1935–19362 May 193429 August 1936 83––83 [15]
11 Basil Allen  England1937–1938
1947–1950		22 July 19332 September 1950 190––190 [16]
12 Wally Hammond  England1939–19466 June 193110 August 1946 63––63 [17]
13 Derrick Bailey  England1951–195215 June 194930 August 1952 51––51 [18]
14 Jack Crapp  England1953–195412 May 19511 June 1955 64––64 [19]
15 George Emmett  England1955–19583 June 195315 August 1959 140––140 [20]
16 Tom Graveney  England1959–196013 June 195127 August 1960 49––49 [21]
17 Tom Pugh  England1961–196229 April 19615 September 1962 45––45 [22]
18 Ken Graveney  England1963–19641 May 19632 September 1964 562–58 [23][24]
19 John Mortimore  England1965–196729 April 19646 September 1967 944–98 [25][26]
20 Arthur Milton  England196817 July 195713 September 1969 455–50 [27][28]
21 Tony Brown  England1969–197627 April 19698 September 1976 165149–314 [29][30]
22 Mike Procter  South Africa1977–198126 May 19711 July 1981 9394–187 [31][32]
23 David Graveney  England1982–198813 May 198114 September 1988 170144–314 [33][34]
24 Bill Athey  England198912 July 198730 August 1992 2924–53 [35][36]
25 Tony Wright  England1990–19932 May 19897 July 1993 7882–160 [37][38]
26 Courtney Walsh  West Indies1993–1994
1996		4 August 199019 September 1996 4136–77 [39][40]
27 Jack Russell  England19958 August 199319 July 2002 2437–61 [41][42]
28 Mark Alleyne  England1997–200525 June 199425 September 2005 11519418327 [43][44][45]
29 Jon Lewis  England2006–200820 July 20054 June 2009 29211464 [46][47][48]
30 Alex Gidman  England2009–201210 August 200511 September 2012 867333192 [49][50][51]
31 Michael Klinger  Australia2013–201420132017 ----
32 Geraint Jones  England201520142015 ----
33 Gareth Roderick  South Africa2016-20172013- ----
34 Chris Dent  England2018 to date-- ----

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  15. "DAC Page as captain in first-class matches where team is Gloucestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
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  46. "J Lewis as captain in first-class matches where team is Gloucestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
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  49. "APR Gidman as captain in first-class matches where team is Gloucestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
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