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List of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club players

This is a list in alphabetical order of cricketers who have played for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in top-class matches since the club was founded in 1870. Gloucestershire has always had first-class status.[1] It has been a List A team since the beginning of limited overs cricket in 1963;[2] and a top-class Twenty20 team since the inauguration of the Twenty20 Cup in 2003.[3]

The details are the player's usual name followed by the years in which he was active as a Gloucestershire player and then his name is given as it would appear on modern match scorecards. Note that many players represented other top-class teams besides Gloucestershire and some, including the Grace brothers, played for teams styled Gloucestershire before 1870. Current players are shown as active to the latest season in which they played for the club. The list excludes Second XI and other players who did not play for the club's first team; and players whose first team appearances were in minor matches only.[4]

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L

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M

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N

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Q

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See also

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  1. ^ Bailey made his First-class debut in September 2024 against Middlesex. He had previously played for the Gloucestershire Second XI and the Gloucestershire Academy.
  2. ^ Brooks played a single match for the county, taking one wicket and recording a pair in an 1892 match against Sussex. He was a member of the ground staff at the Bristol County Ground but other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known.[5][6]
  3. ^ Born at Redland in Bristol in 1934, Ford played a single first-class match for the county, taking one wicket. He played for the Second XI between 1951 and 1956.[7]
  4. ^ Born at Durban in South Africa in 1931, Greene played for South African schools teams and opened the bowling in a first-class match for a South African XI against the touring Australians in March 1950. He played once for Gloucestershire during 1951, making scores of 23 not out and 26 not out and taking one wicket against Oxford University. He died in 2014 at Southbroom in South Africa.[8]
  5. ^ Matthews, who was born at Clifton in Bristol in 1847, played a single first-class match for the county. He neither batted or bowled in the match, an 1872 fixture against Sussex. He died at Maidenhead in 1912. His brother, Thomas Matthews, also played for Gloucestershire.[9]
  6. ^ Naish made his Twenty20 debut in May 2022 against the Sri Lanka Cricket Development XI. He had previously played for the Gloucestershire Second XI and the Gloucestershire Academy.

References

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  1. ^ Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (1982) A Guide to First-Class cricket matches played in the British Isles (second edition), p. 11. Nottingham: ACS. (Available online. Retrieved 4 March 2022.)
  2. ^ "List A matches played by Gloucestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Twenty20 matches played by Gloucestershire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Gloucestershire players". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  5. ^ J Brooks, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2024. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Today's Cricket: Sussex v Gloucestershire, Yorkshire Evening Post, 13 June 1892. p. 4.
  7. ^ Jon Ford, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2024. (subscription required)
  8. ^ Robin Greene, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2024. (subscription required)
  9. ^ John Matthews, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2024. (subscription required)
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