List of Worcestershire cricket captains

Worcestershire County Cricket Club are an English cricket club based in Worcester, Worcestershire. The club was founded in 1865 and played their first first-class cricket match in 1899 after being accepted into the County Championship.^[1] The club have played both List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket since their introductions into the English game in 1963 and 2003 respectively.

Key

• Years denotes the years in which the player was named as official club captain for Worcestershire.
• First denotes the date of the first match in which the player captained Worcestershire.
• Last denotes the date of the last match in which the player captained Worcestershire.
• FC denotes the number of first-class matches in which the player captained Worcestershire.
• LA denotes the number of List A matches in which the player captained Worcestershire.
• T20 denotes the number of Twenty20 matches in which the player captained Worcestershire.
• Total denotes the total number of first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches in which the player captained Worcestershire.

Official captains

Harry Foster was the first official captain of Worcestershire

Vikram Solanki captained Worcestershire to the 2007 Pro40 title

No.	Name	Nationality	Years	First	Last	FC	LA	T20	Total	Refs
1	Harry Foster	England	1899–1900 1902–1910 1913	4 May 1899	25 August 1920	214	–	–	214	[2]
2	Reginald Foster	England	1901	13 August 1900	17 June 1907	24	–	–	24	[3]
3	George Simpson-Hayward	England	1911–1912	22 June 1908	22 June 1914	47	–	–	47	[4]
4	William Taylor	England	1914–1919 1922	9 May 1914	19 August 1922	45	–	–	45	[5]
5	Maurice Jewell	England	1920–1921 1926 1928–1929	23 June 1919	31 May 1933	81	–	–	81	[6]
6	Maurice Foster	England	1923–1925	9 August 1909	20 June 1934	86	–	–	86	[7]
7	Cecil Ponsonby	England	1927	4 May 1927	29 August 1928	27	–	–	27	[8]
8	John Coventry	England	1929–1930	8 June 1927	23 August 1930	23	–	–	23	[9]
9	Cyril Walters	England	1931–1935	3 May 1930	3 August 1935	127	–	–	127	[10]
10	Charles Lyttelton	England	1936–1939	25 July 1934	30 August 1939	82	–	–	82	[11]
11	Sandy Singleton	England	1946	23 August 1939	24 August 1946	24	–	–	24	[12]
12	Allan White	England	1947–1949	21 June 1939	10 August 1949	65	–	–	65	[13]
13	Bob Wyatt	England	1949–1951	7 June 1947	29 August 1951	41	–	–	41	[14]
14	Ronald Bird	England	1952–1954	21 May 1949	14 August 1954	107	–	–	107	[15]
15	Reg Perks	England	1955	27 May 1950	31 August 1955	50	–	–	50	[16]
16	Peter Richardson	England	1956–1958	20 June 1953	3 September 1958	61	–	–	61	[17]
17	Don Kenyon	England	1959–1967	18 June 1958	30 August 1967	260	10	–	270	[18][19]
18	Tom Graveney	England	1968–1970	15 May 1965	6 September 1970	69	33	–	102	[20][21]
19	Norman Gifford	England	1971–1980	4 June 1969	15 May 1982	204	206	–	410	[22][23]
20	Glenn Turner	New Zealand	1981	22 May 1971	13 September 1981	40	28	–	68	[24][25]
21	Phil Neale	England	1982–1991	25 July 1981	26 July 1991	229	221	–	450	[26][27]
22	Tim Curtis	England	1992–1995	28 May 1988	13 June 1995	84	87	–	171	[28][29]
23	Tom Moody	Australia	1995–1999	15 June 1995	12 September 1999	64	83	–	147	[30][31]
24	Graeme Hick	England	2000–2002	16 July 1997	19 June 2005	57	70	1	128	[32][33][34]
25	Ben Smith	England	2003–2004	22 September 2002	12 June 2005	32	40	10	82	[35][36][37]
26	Steve Rhodes	England	2004	6 June 1993	9 September 2004	28	23	–	51	[38][39]
27	Vikram Solanki	England	2005–2010	20 June 2001	9 August 2010	85	85	39	173	[40][41][42]
28	Daryl Mitchell	England	2010–2016	11 June 2010	20 September 2016	101	60	79	240	[43][44][45]
29	Joe Leach	England	2017-2021	10 June 2016	25 September 2017	14	10	14	38	[46][47][48]
30	Brett D'Oliveira	England	2022 to date	7 April 2022	26 September 2022	13	-	-	-

Unofficial captains

This is a list of players who have captained Worcestershire without having been appointed official club captain.

Name	Nationality	First	Last	FC	LA	T20	Total	Refs
Granville Bromley-Martin	England	30 July 1903	30 July 1903	1	–	–	1	[49]
Geoffrey Foster	England	13 July 1905	7 July 1910	5	–	–	5	[50]
Reginald Brinton	England	10 May 1906	18 June 1906	2	–	–	2	[51]
William Hutchings	England	26 July 1906	26 July 1906	1	–	–	1	[52]
William Burns	England	5 August 1909	4 August 1913	17	–	–	17	[53]
Charles Frederick Lyttelton	England	1 September 1910	1 September 1910	1	–	–	1	[54]
George Crowe	England	31 July 1911	31 July 1911	1	–	–	1	[55]
J. W. Cecil Turner	England	4 August 1919	27 July 1921	2	–	–	2	[56]
Humphrey Gilbert	England	7 June 1922	18 July 1928	3	–	–	3	[57]
Leonard Crawley	England	12 August 1922	12 August 1922	1	–	–	1	[58]
Harry Higgins	England	23 May 1923	23 May 1923	1	–	–	1	[59]
John Higgins	England	27 July 1927	25 August 1928	9	–	–	9	[60]
Denys Hill	England	28 April 1928	11 August 1928	10	–	–	10	[61]
Albert Lane	England	2 May 1928	29 June 1929	5	–	–	5	[62]
Bernard Quaife	England	1 August 1928	28 August 1937	65	–	–	65	[63]
Denis Evers	England	12 June 1937	29 June 1938	4	–	–	4	[64]
Roger Human	England	25 August 1937	10 August 1938	5	–	–	5	[65]
Bob Crisp	South Africa	11 June 1938	11 June 1938	1	–	–	1	[66]
Harold Gibbons	England	22 June 1938	27 May 1939	2	–	–	2	[67]
Cecil Pullan	England	16 July 1938	13 August 1938	2	–	–	2	[68]
George Abell	England	7 June 1939	5 July 1939	3	–	–	3	[69]
Charles Palmer	England	13 August 1949	17 August 1949	2	–	–	2	[70]
Joseph Lister	England	11 June 1955	27 June 1959	2	–	–	2	[71]
George Chesterton	England	17 August 1955	17 August 1955	1	–	–	1	[72]
Roly Jenkins	England	26 May 1956	7 June 1958	24	–	–	24	[73]
George Dews	England	11 June 1960	19 August 1961	7	–	–	7	[74]
Martin Horton	England	17 June 1961	12 June 1965	9	–	–	9	[75]
Bob Broadbent	England	2 June 1962	2 June 1962	1	–	–	1	[76]
Roy Booth	England	16 August 1961	4 September 1968	20	–	–	20	[77]
Alan Ormrod	England	14 May 1966	24 June 1978	2	–	–	2	[78]
Dick Richardson	England	26 July 1967	26 July 1967	1	–	–	1	[79]
Doug Slade	England	12 July 1969	12 July 1969	1	–	–	1	[80]
Ron Headley	West Indies	20 June 1971	16 June 1974	14	9	–	23	[81][82]
Basil D'Oliveira	England	14 August 1971	7 August 1976	2	1	–	3	[83][84]
Ted Hemsley	England	29 May 1974	29 June 1980	5	2	–	7	[85][86]
Greg Watson	Australia	30 August 1978	30 August 1978	1	–	–	1	[87]
David Humphries	England	24 August 1980	12 June 1985	1	1	–	2	[88][89]
Dipak Patel	New Zealand	15 June 1983	25 August 1985	5	1	–	6	[90][91]
Ian Botham	England	28 April 1988	13 May 1989	3	5	–	8	[92][93]
Neal Radford	England	11 June 1989	11 June 1989	–	1	–	1	[94]
Richard Illingworth	England	17 June 1994	17 June 1994	1	–	–	1	[95]
Phil Weston	England	10 August 1999	10 August 1999	1	–	–	1	[96]
Stephen Peters	England	8 May 2005	8 May 2005	1	–	–	1	[97]
Gareth Batty	England	22 June 2005	30 June 2009	6	4	9	19	[98][99][100]
Moeen Ali	England	11 May 2011	29 May 2011	3	2	–	5	[101][102]
Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan	5 August 2015	5 August 2015	–	1	–	1	[103]
Alex Gidman	England	7 August 2015	18 August 2015	1	1	–	2	[104][105]

See also

• List of Worcestershire County Cricket Club players