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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 rebranded ...

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

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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), Twenty ...

in 1963 and as a top-level

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team since the inauguration of the Twenty20 Cup 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

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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 Playfair Cricket Annual, 2022 edition.

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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-confidenc ...

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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 (1893–1911) : A. W. Isaac * Herbert Isaac (1919) : H. W. Isaac * John Isaac (1902–1908) : J. E. V. Isaac *

Derek Isles Derek Isles (born 14 October 1943) is a former English cricketer: a wicket-keeper who played a single first-class match, for Worcestershire against the Pakistanis at Worcester in 1967. In the game against the Pakistanis, his most notable achi ...

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Leonard Oakley Leonard Oakley (11 January 1916 – 9 January 1974) was an English cricketer who played eight first-class games for Worcestershire County Cricket Club either side of the Second World War. A bowler, in 14 innings he never scored more than 11 ru ...

(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 Ladislaus Frederick "Laddie" Outschoorn (26 September 1918 – 9 January 1994) was a Ceylonese first-class cricketer, a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Worcestershire in the years after the Second ...

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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, but later found much more success at Worcestershire, where ...

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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 Louis Vorster (2 November 1966 – 17 April 2012) was a South African-Namibian cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He was born in Potchefstroom. Vorster made his cricketing debut for Albatross cricket club ...

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Jim Yardley James Barrett Yardley (born June 18, 1964) is an American journalist currently working in London. Yardley is a graduate of Walter Hines Page High School in Greensboro, North Carolina and received a B.A. in history from the University of North Ca ...

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Hugo Yarnold Henry Yarnold, known as Hugo (6 July 1917 at Worcester, England, Worcester – 13 August 1974 in a road accident at Leamington Spa), was an English first-class cricketer who became a Test cricket, Test cricket umpire (cricket), umpire. 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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Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

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