Harry Came fell nine runs short of a second century in the match as Derbyshire were forced to settle for a draw in an exciting finish to their County Championship Division Two match with Gloucestershire at Bristol. The hosts declared their second innings at lunch, having progressed from an overnight 364-3 to 526-6. Graeme van...
After retirement he became a nightclub owner and amateur bodybuilder before being named Gloucestershire’s club president in 2022. He continued in the role after his MND diagnosis last year and has been a prominent campaigner to support those with the disease. In an interview with BBC Breakfast in September, Lawrence said he had been inspired...
Runners-up last year and winners in 2023, Somerset’s T20 pedigree was again in evidence at Sophia Gardens. The seam attack of Matt Henry, Riley Meredith and captain Lewis Gregory reduced Glamorgan to 49-5 in the ninth over and the innings did not recover. A total of 130-9 never looked to be enough as T20 specialist...
Looking to win this competition for the first time, Surrey were always on top of Sussex from the moment Will Jacks (43) and Dom Sibley (45) hammered a 52-run opening stand from the opening five overs. Although the tournament’s third-highest run scorer, Jason Roy was out for a two-ball duck but Sam Curran took up...
Daniel Bell-Drummond hammered a 48-ball century as Kent Spitfires ended Somerset’s 100% start to their T20 Blast campaign. Meanwhile, reigning champions Gloucestershire suffered a fifth successive defeat as Glamorgan beat them by 40 runs at Bristol. Matthew Potts inspired Durham to a crushing six-wicket win over Yorkshire, with the England paceman returning Blast-best figures of...
Gloucestershire have signed Australia off-spinner Todd Murphy for their next four County Championship matches. The 24-year-old will arrive in time for the Second Division game against Derbyshire at Bristol on 22 June, and finish with the meeting with Middlesex at the Cheltenham Cricket Festival at the end of July. This will be Murphy’s first experience...
As in Notts game, there was also a hat-trick – of sorts – at Canterbury where Surrey’s Mitchell Santner dismissed Joe Denly and Tom Rogers at the end of the 13th over and produced the throw at the start of the next, bowled by Nathan Smith, to run out Zak Crawley for 46 attempting a...
Rain put paid to the prospect of an exciting finish at Wantage Road as Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire were forced to settle for a draw in the County Championship. The Division Two contest had been nicely poised when the weather intervened, with Gloucestershire on 214-6, needing another 136 from a minimum of 24.2 overs. Northamptonshire had...
Carys Nally & Clara Bullock BBC News, Gloucestershire The highlights from the 2025 Gloucestershire cheese rolling races German Tom Kopke was victorious at the Gloucestershire cheese-rolling event for the second year in a row, saying he “risked his life” to win. Mr Kopke, 23, who runs his own YouTube channel, was one of dozens of...
Australia batter D’Arcy Short has joined Gloucestershire for the defending champions’ 2025 T20 Blast campaign. The left-hander, who can also bowl spin, has played for his country in both white-ball formats and has twice been named ‘Player of the Tournament’ in Australia’s Big Bash. He averages just over 30 with the bat for Australia in...
Cameron Green held his nerve to steer Gloucestershire to a hard-earned three-wicket victory over Kent on the final day of a thrilling County Championship Division Two match at the Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol. Set a modest 162 to win in a minimum 57 overs, the home side made heavy weather of the chase as they...
Gloucestershire called the shots on day three of the County Championship match against Kent at the Seat Unique Stadium to raise the prospect of a first home win in three seasons. The home side posted 516 to establish a useful first-innings lead of 92 courtesy of hundreds from Cameron Green and James Bracey, who scored...
Resolute batting by Lancashire’s Luke Wells and Tom Hartley frustrated Gloucestershire’s bowlers and helped ensure that the County Championship match at Old Trafford ended in a draw. The visitors declared on their overnight score of 589-8, giving them a lead of 139, and when they reduced the home side to 160-6 half an hour before...
Ollie Price and Miles Hammond both made fifties as Gloucestershire produced a determined response to Lancashire’s first-innings 450 on the second day of the County Championship match at Old Trafford. Replying to the home side’s formidable total, in which Marcus Harris made 167 and Ajeet Singh Dale took 3-67, the visitors were 184-2 at the...
Gloucestershire cricket has signed a non-binding heads of terms agreement to explore a new site in Swanmoor Stoke on the edge of Bristol. The county club announced in December 2023 that it was exploring options to move from its historic Bristol County Ground, in Ashley Down, Bristol, where it has played for more than a...