The Latest Sports News from the University of Gloucestershire
All-rounder Ollie Price has agreed to extend his stay with Gloucestershire County Cricket Club until 2025 having impressed across the formats in the 2022 season. Price scored the fourth most runs for Gloucester in List A cricket, averaging 26.63 across eight games at a strike rate of 92. The best of his performances coming against […]
Summer is on the horizon, and that means the County Championship isn’t far from getting underway. One of the staples of the English cricket season, which was first officially played in 1890, begins on Thursday and runs until the end of September. After a couple of Covid-effected seasons, the tournament will return to two separate […]
Former Gloucestershire opening batsman Kraigg Brathwaite did more than just thwart England as he valiantly helped his team bat out day five of the second test in Barbados. His mammoth match performance saw him face a huge 673 balls across two innings, a number that falls just seven short of his total for his county […]
Gloucestershire’s Tom Borrman and Worcestershire’s Dan Holland are in the academies at their counties and have been doing well for Dumbleton CC the past few weeks. Both cricketers play for Dumbleton CC, located in the outskirts of Cheltenham, who started their 2021 league campaign this weekend, Holland has already scored a century and two other […]
Gloucestershire comfortably beat local rivals Somerset by eight wickets in the County Championship to claim their first win at Taunton since 1993. The final day would usually have hundreds of people in attendance, but that wasn’t the case in a match that was played behind closed doors due to the current coronavirus restrictions. The visitors […]
The 19-year-old right armer as been playing cricket for as long as she can remember, like most, she took it up as it runs in the family. She said “My dad plays semi-professionally, and also my brothers play so I just used to play in the garden with them a lot then when I got […]
The cricket season hadn’t even begun on English soil when Boris Johnson announced the nationwide lockdown in March. The England team soon flew home from Sri Lanka and the ECB announced there would be no cricket in the country until May 28th at the earliest, meaning Gloucestershire’s return to the top flight of county cricket […]
The ECB have announced that professional and recreational cricket in England and Wales has been suspended until at least the May 28 due to the coronavirus outbreak. This has resulted in the start of the English domestic season being delayed, it had been scheduled to get underway on Easter Sunday. Gloucestershire earned promotion to division […]
The coronavirus pandemic may have left a fairly sizeable hole in the sporting calendar. Gloucester Rugby had their most recent match against Worcester Warriors postponed and their upcoming home match against Bristol Bears has also been struck by the virus. Gloucestershire were set to return to the top division of county cricket for the first […]