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cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

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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 ...

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County Championship The County Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Rothesay County Championship, is the only domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales. Established in 1890, it is organised by the England and Wales Cri ...

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 white ball cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed within one day. There are a number of formats, including List A cricket (8-hour games), Twenty20 cricket (3-h ...

in 1963 and as a top-level

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

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Twenty20 Cup The T20 Blast, officially known as the Vitality Blast for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in England and Wales. The competition was established by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003. T20 Blast is ...

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 unde ...

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 ''Playfair Cricket Annual'' is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. It has been published every year since 1948. Its main purposes are to revie ...

, 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 was with Worcestershire, although he had a spell with Derbyshire, and overseas with Natal. H ...

(1982–2000) : R. K. Illingworth * Imran Arif (2008–2010) : Imran Arif *

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi (born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician, philanthropist, and former cricketer who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. He was the founder of the political party Pak ...

(1971–1976) : Imran Khan * John Inchmore (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 (1967) : D. Isles

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* Leonard Oakley (1935–1948) : L. Oakley * Richard Oliver (2014–2015) : R. K. Oliver * Alan Ormrod (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, but later found much more success at Worcestershire, where ...

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Usama Mir Usama Mir (born 23 December 1995) is a Pakistani cricketer who plays for the ODI and T20 teams. Usama Mir made his Pakistan debut in 2023. Background Usama Mir was born to an ethnic Kashmiri family in Sialkot. Domestic career Mir has played for ...

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Chaminda Vaas Deshabandu Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas (born 27 January 1974) is a former Sri Lankan international cricketer who represented the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He is a fast medium pace bowler and regarded as one ...

(2005) : W. P. U. J. C. Vaas * Logan van Beek (2023–2024) : L. V. van Beek *

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 ...

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Amar Virdi Guramar Singh Virdi (born 19 July 1998), known as Amar Virdi, is an English cricketer. An off-spin bowler, Virdi played in two Under-19 internationals for England against Sri Lanka in 2016. He made his first-class debut for Surrey in the 2017 C ...

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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 (1967–1975) : T. J. Yardley *

Hugo Yarnold Henry Yarnold (6 July 1917 – 13 August 1974), known as Hugo Yarnold, was an English first-class cricketer who became a Test match umpire. He was born at Worcester in 1917. Yarnold was a diminutive lower-order right-handed batsman and a wicke ...

(1938–1955) : H. Yarnold * Martin Young (1946–1948) : D. M. Young * Younis Ahmed (1979–1983) : Younis Ahmed

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Zaheer Khan Zaheer Khan (born 8 October 1978) (''Zaheer's official records say he was born in Shrirampur, Maharashtra on October 7. But as it turns out, his actual birth date is October 8, 1978'') is an Indian former professional cricketer who played all f ...

(2006) : Zaheer Khan

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