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Worcestershire County Cricket Club Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Worcestershire. Its Vitality Blast T20 team has been rebrande ...

in top-class matches since 1899 when the club joined the

County Championship The County Championship (referred to as the LV= Insurance County Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). It b ...

and the team was elevated to official first-class status. Worcestershire has been classified as a List A team since the beginning of

limited overs cricket Limited overs cricket, also known as one-day cricket or white ball cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed in one day. There are a number of formats, including List A cricket (8-hour games), Twen ...

in 1963 and as a top-level

Twenty20 Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single inn ...

team since the inauguration of the

Twenty20 Cup The T20 Blast, currently named the Vitality Blast for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket competition for English and Welsh first-class counties. The competition was established by the England and Wales Cricket Board (E ...

in 2003. The details are the player's usual name followed by the years in which he was active as a Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire and that some played for the club in

minor counties cricket The National Counties, known as the Minor Counties before 2020, are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that do not have first-class status. The game is administered by the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), which comes und ...

before 1899. 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. The list has been updated to the end of the 2021 cricket season using the data published in

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, 2022 edition.

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Richard Illingworth Richard Keith Illingworth (born 23 August 1963) is an English former cricketer, who is currently an umpire. The bulk of his domestic cricketing career occurred with Worcestershire, although he had a spell with Derbyshire, and overseas with Nat ...

(1982–2000) : R. K. Illingworth *

Imran Arif Imran Arif (born 15 January 1984) is a British first-class cricketer. A fast-medium bowler, he played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club. He played in the second XI for Sussex during the 2007 season before moving to Worcestershire, where he ...

(2008–2010) : Imran Arif *

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confiden ...

(1971–1976) : Imran Khan *

John Inchmore John Darling Inchmore (born 22 February 1949) is a former English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Worcestershire during the 1970s and 1980s. He also played briefly for Northern Transvaal, and later for Wiltshire. Born ...

(1973–1986) : J. D. Inchmore *

Arthur Isaac Arthur Whitmore Isaac (4 October 1873 – 7 July 1916) was an English first-class cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played a number of times, though with only modest success, for Worcestershire in their early seasons in first-class cric ...

(1893–1911) : A. W. Isaac *

Herbert Isaac Herbert Whitmore Isaac (11 December 1899 – 26 April 1962) was an English cricketer who played three first-class games for Worcestershire in 1919 without any great success. None of these games were in the County Championship as Worcesters ...

(1919) : H. W. Isaac * John Isaac (1902–1908) : J. E. V. Isaac * Derek Isles (1967) : D. Isles

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* Leonard Oakley (1935–1948) : L. Oakley * Richard Oliver (2014–2015) : R. K. Oliver *

Alan Ormrod Joseph Alan Ormrod (born 22 December 1942) is a former English first-class cricketer who played for Worcestershire and Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropo ...

(1962–1983) : J. A. Ormrod * Steve O'Shaughnessy (1988–1989) : S. J. O'Shaughnessy * Laddie Outschoorn (1946–1959) : L. F. Outschoorn

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Bernard Quaife Bernard William Quaife (24 November 1899 – 27 November 1984) was an English first-class cricketer who played more than 300 matches between the wars. He played first for Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Warwickshire, but later found much more ...

(1928–1937) : B. W. Quaife

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Chaminda Vaas Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas (born 27 January 1974) is a former Sri Lankan international cricketer, who played all forms of the game, and a former ODI captain who is often described as the greatest fast medium bowl ...

(2005) : W. P. U. J. C. Vaas *

Lou Vincent Lou Vincent (born 11 November 1978) is a former New Zealand cricketer and opening batsman. He has represented New Zealand in Test match, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Auckland in New Zealand do ...

(2006) : L. Vincent * Louis Vorster (1988) : L. P. Vorster

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* Jim Yardley (1967–1975) : T. J. Yardley * Hugo Yarnold (1938–1955) : H. Yarnold * Martin Young (1946–1948) : D. M. Young *

Younis Ahmed Mohammad Younis Ahmed (born 20 October 1947) is a Pakistani former first-class cricketer who played in four Test matches and two One Day Internationals between 1969 and 1987. Primarily a middle-order batsman, he played first-class cricket f ...

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Zaheer Khan Zaheer Khan (born 8 October 1978) is an Indian former professional cricketer who played all forms of the game for the Indian national team from 2000 till 2014. He is a fast-medium left-arm bowler. He was the second-most successful Indian pace ...

(2006) : Zaheer Khan

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Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...

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