#worcestershire

3 incidents tagged

The Gillette Cup — Cricket's First Limited-Overs Trophy, September 1963

Sussex vs Worcestershire

1963-09-07

On 7 September 1963 at Lord's, Sussex beat Worcestershire by 14 runs to win the inaugural Gillette Cup — the first organised one-day knockout competition between first-class counties. The 65-overs-a-side format, introduced to revive flagging county attendances, attracted a full Lord's crowd and laid the template for every limited-overs tournament that followed.

#gillette cup#limited overs#one-day

⭐Mild

Patsy Hendren's 277 — Middlesex v Worcestershire, 1925

Middlesex v Worcestershire

1925-07-21

On 21 July 1925 the 36-year-old Patsy Hendren made 277 for Middlesex against Worcestershire at New Road — at the time his career-best, in a 1925 season in which he scored 3,311 runs at 70.44 and was second in the English averages only to Jack Hobbs.

#patsy-hendren#middlesex#worcestershire

⭐Explosive

William Burns Killed on the Somme — Worcestershire All-Rounder, July 1916

Worcestershire

1916-07-07

William 'Billy' Burns, the Worcestershire fast bowler and middle-order batsman who once took a hat-trick against Gloucestershire and bowled out the Australians at Worcester in 1909, was killed near Contalmaison during the Battle of the Somme on 7 July 1916. He was 32.

#william-burns#world-war-i#death