List of Worcestershire cricket captains

Worcestershire County Cricket Club are an English cricket club based in Worcester, Worcestershire. The club was founded in 1865 and played their first first-class cricket match in 1899 after being accepted into the County Championship.[1] The club have played both List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket since their introductions into the English game in 1963 and 2003 respectively.

Key

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

Official captains

Harry Foster was the first official captain of Worcestershire
Vikram Solanki captained Worcestershire to the 2007 Pro40 title
No. Name Nationality Years First Last FC LA T20 Total Refs
1Harry Foster England1899–1900
1902–1910
1913
4 May 189925 August 1920 214214 [2]
2Reginald Foster England1901 13 August 190017 June 1907 2424 [3]
3George Simpson-Hayward England1911–1912 22 June 190822 June 1914 4747 [4]
4William Taylor England1914–1919
1922
9 May 191419 August 1922 4545 [5]
5Maurice Jewell England1920–1921
1926
1928–1929
23 June 191931 May 1933 8181 [6]
6Maurice Foster England1923–1925 9 August 190920 June 1934 8686 [7]
7Cecil Ponsonby England1927 4 May 192729 August 1928 2727 [8]
8John Coventry England1929–1930 8 June 192723 August 1930 2323 [9]
9Cyril Walters England1931–1935 3 May 19303 August 1935 127127 [10]
10Charles Lyttelton England1936–1939 25 July 193430 August 1939 8282 [11]
11Sandy Singleton England1946 23 August 193924 August 1946 2424 [12]
12Allan White England1947–1949 21 June 193910 August 1949 6565 [13]
13Bob Wyatt England1949–1951 7 June 194729 August 1951 4141 [14]
14Ronald Bird England1952–1954 21 May 194914 August 1954 107107 [15]
15Reg Perks England1955 27 May 195031 August 1955 5050 [16]
16Peter Richardson England1956–1958 20 June 19533 September 1958 6161 [17]
17Don Kenyon England1959–1967 18 June 195830 August 1967 26010270 [18][19]
18Tom Graveney England1968–1970 15 May 19656 September 1970 6933102 [20][21]
19Norman Gifford England1971–1980 4 June 196915 May 1982 204206410 [22][23]
20Glenn Turner New Zealand1981 22 May 197113 September 1981 402868 [24][25]
21Phil Neale England1982–1991 25 July 198126 July 1991 229221450 [26][27]
22Tim Curtis England1992–1995 28 May 198813 June 1995 8487171 [28][29]
23Tom Moody Australia1995–1999 15 June 199512 September 1999 6483147 [30][31]
24Graeme Hick England2000–2002 16 July 199719 June 2005 57701128 [32][33][34]
25Ben Smith England2003–2004 22 September 200212 June 2005 32401082 [35][36][37]
26Steve Rhodes England2004 6 June 19939 September 2004 282351 [38][39]
27Vikram Solanki England2005–2010 20 June 20019 August 2010 858539173 [40][41][42]
28Daryl Mitchell England2010–2016 11 June 201020 September 2016 1016079240 [43][44][45]
29Joe Leach England2017–present 10 June 201625 September 2017 14101438 [46][47][48]

Unofficial captains

This is a list of players who have captained Worcestershire without having been appointed official club captain.

Name Nationality First Last FC LA T20 Total Refs
Granville Bromley-Martin England 30 July 190330 July 1903 11 [49]
Geoffrey Foster England 13 July 19057 July 1910 55 [50]
Reginald Brinton England 10 May 190618 June 1906 22 [51]
William Hutchings England 26 July 190626 July 1906 11 [52]
William Burns England 5 August 19094 August 1913 1717 [53]
Charles Frederick Lyttelton England 1 September 19101 September 1910 11 [54]
George Crowe England 31 July 191131 July 1911 11 [55]
J. W. Cecil Turner England 4 August 191927 July 1921 22 [56]
Humphrey Gilbert England 7 June 192218 July 1928 33 [57]
Leonard Crawley England 12 August 192212 August 1922 11 [58]
Harry Higgins England 23 May 192323 May 1923 11 [59]
John Higgins England 27 July 192725 August 1928 99 [60]
Denys Hill England 28 April 192811 August 1928 1010 [61]
Albert Lane England 2 May 192829 June 1929 55 [62]
Bernard Quaife England 1 August 192828 August 1937 6565 [63]
Denis Evers England 12 June 193729 June 1938 44 [64]
Roger Human England 25 August 193710 August 1938 55 [65]
Bob Crisp South Africa 11 June 193811 June 1938 11 [66]
Harold Gibbons England 22 June 193827 May 1939 22 [67]
Cecil Pullan England 16 July 193813 August 1938 22 [68]
George Abell England 7 June 19395 July 1939 33 [69]
Charles Palmer England 13 August 194917 August 1949 22 [70]
Joseph Lister England 11 June 195527 June 1959 22 [71]
George Chesterton England 17 August 195517 August 1955 11 [72]
Roly Jenkins England 26 May 19567 June 1958 2424 [73]
George Dews England 11 June 196019 August 1961 77 [74]
Martin Horton England 17 June 196112 June 1965 99 [75]
Bob Broadbent England 2 June 19622 June 1962 11 [76]
Roy Booth England 16 August 19614 September 1968 2020 [77]
Alan Ormrod England 14 May 196624 June 1978 22 [78]
Dick Richardson England 26 July 196726 July 1967 11 [79]
Doug Slade England 12 July 196912 July 1969 11 [80]
Ron Headley West Indies 20 June 197116 June 1974 14923 [81][82]
Basil D'Oliveira England 14 August 19717 August 1976 213 [83][84]
Ted Hemsley England 29 May 197429 June 1980 527 [85][86]
Greg Watson Australia 30 August 197830 August 1978 11 [87]
David Humphries England 24 August 198012 June 1985 112 [88][89]
Dipak Patel New Zealand 15 June 198325 August 1985 516 [90][91]
Ian Botham England 28 April 198813 May 1989 358 [92][93]
Neal Radford England 11 June 198911 June 1989 11 [94]
Richard Illingworth England 17 June 199417 June 1994 11 [95]
Phil Weston England 10 August 199910 August 1999 11 [96]
Stephen Peters England 8 May 20058 May 2005 11 [97]
Gareth Batty England 22 June 200530 June 2009 64919 [98][99][100]
Moeen Ali England 11 May 201129 May 2011 325 [101][102]
Saeed Ajmal Pakistan 5 August 20155 August 2015 11 [103]
Alex Gidman England 7 August 201518 August 2015 112 [104][105]

See also

References

General

"WCCC Roll of Honour". Worcestershire County Cricket Club. Retrieved 24 February 2016.

Specific
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  8. "CB Ponsonby as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  9. "JB Coventry as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  10. "CF Walters as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  11. "CJ Lyttelton as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  12. "AP Singleton as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
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  18. "D Kenyon as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
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  20. "TW Graveney as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
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  24. "GM Turner as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
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  26. "PA Neale as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
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  32. "GE Hick as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
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  35. "BF Smith as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
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  49. "GE Bromley-Martin as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  50. "GN Foster as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  51. "RS Brinton as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  52. "WG Hutchings as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  53. "WB Burns as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  54. "CF Lyttelton as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  55. "GL Crowe as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  56. "JWC Turner as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  57. "HA Gilbert as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  58. "LG Crawley as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  59. "HL Higgins as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  60. "JB Higgins as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  61. "DV Hill as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  62. "AF Lane as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  63. "BW Quaife as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  64. "RDM Evers as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  65. "RHC Human as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  66. "RJ Crisp as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  67. "HHIH Gibbons as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  68. "CDA Pullan as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  69. "GEB Abell as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  70. "CH Palmer as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  71. "J Lister as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  72. "GH Chesterton as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  73. "RO Jenkins as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  74. "G Dews as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  75. "MJ Horton as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  76. "RG Broadbent as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  77. "R Booth as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  78. "JA Ormrod as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  79. "DW Richardson as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  80. "DNF Slade as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  81. "RGA Headley as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  82. "RGA Headley as captain in listA matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  83. "BL D'Oliveira as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  84. "BL D'Oliveira as captain in listA matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  85. "EJO Hemsley as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  86. "EJO Hemsley as captain in listA matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  87. "GG Watson as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  88. "DJ Humphries as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  89. "DJ Humphries as captain in listA matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  90. "DN Patel as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  91. "DN Patel as captain in listA matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  92. "IT Botham as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  93. "IT Botham as captain in listA matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  94. "NV Radford as captain in listA matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  95. "RK Illingworth as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  96. "WPC Weston as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  97. "SD Peters as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  98. "GJ Batty as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  99. "GJ Batty as captain in listA matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  100. "GJ Batty as captain in Twenty20 matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  101. "MM Ali as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  102. "MM Ali as captain in listA matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  103. "Saeed Ajmal as captain in listA matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  104. "APR Gidman as captain in first-class matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  105. "APR Gidman as captain in listA matches where team is Worcestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

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