LOCAL CRICKET INTEREST
BLACK COUNTRY-BORN FIRST-CLASS CRICKETERS
In 2022, the Stourbridge & District Cricket Society will celebrate its 50th birthday!
To commemorate the occasion, we are embarking on a project that will honour all Black Country-born men – and women – who have played first-class cricket.
So far, we have identified nearly 100 cricketers – including nine Test players – who qualify for inclusion! The number identified so far has now reached 108!
Don Kenyon (pictured), the former Worcestershire captain and the first president of Stourbridge & District Cricket Society, is probably the best-known of the nine Black Country-born Test cricketers.
Please click here to view the A-Z list of Black Country-born cricketers known to have played cricket at first-class class level. The list does not include the latest additions.
We want to include a photograph of each person, many of whom are no longer alive.
If you are a family descendant, we hope you can help us!
At the end of each cricketer’s entry it states if we require their photograph or not.
If it says, ‘Yes, please!’ and you have a photograph of your relative (in cricket attire preferably, but it’s not essential), we will be more than delighted to hear from you.
Further information about our criteria for all identified cricketers’ inclusion can be viewed on the final page of the attached list.
If you can help please contact the project co-ordinator either by email to: b.lester@btinternet.com – or phone 07802 475691
Further information about the project’s progress will appear on the dedicated page on this website soon.
Thank you in anticipation of your help!
To commemorate the occasion, we are embarking on a project that will honour all Black Country-born men – and women – who have played first-class cricket.
So far, we have identified nearly 100 cricketers – including nine Test players – who qualify for inclusion! The number identified so far has now reached 108!
Don Kenyon (pictured), the former Worcestershire captain and the first president of Stourbridge & District Cricket Society, is probably the best-known of the nine Black Country-born Test cricketers.
Please click here to view the A-Z list of Black Country-born cricketers known to have played cricket at first-class class level. The list does not include the latest additions.
We want to include a photograph of each person, many of whom are no longer alive.
If you are a family descendant, we hope you can help us!
At the end of each cricketer’s entry it states if we require their photograph or not.
If it says, ‘Yes, please!’ and you have a photograph of your relative (in cricket attire preferably, but it’s not essential), we will be more than delighted to hear from you.
Further information about our criteria for all identified cricketers’ inclusion can be viewed on the final page of the attached list.
If you can help please contact the project co-ordinator either by email to: b.lester@btinternet.com – or phone 07802 475691
Further information about the project’s progress will appear on the dedicated page on this website soon.
Thank you in anticipation of your help!
UPDATE - BLACK COUNTRY - BORN FIRST CLASS CRICKETERS
DUAL ACHIEVEMENT FOR ADAM
It was a proud day for Worcestershire paceman Adam Finch when he made his senior debut for the County.
The 19-year-old received his cap before the start of play on 10 June in the Specsavers County Championship match with Lancashire at Blackfinch New Road.
Consequently, the Wordsley-born teenager becomes the latest and, possibly, the youngest entry into a list of more than ninety ‘Black Country-born First-Class Cricketers’. It is planned that each player will be featured in a book to commemorate the jubilee of Stourbridge & District Cricket Society in 2022. For more information, please see the following story.
Adam was born at Wordsley in 2000 and was educated at Kingswinford and Old Swinford Hospital 6th Form College.
A fast-medium right-arm bowler, he first gained international honours with England under 19s against South Africa in 2018 and in the following winter against Bangladesh.
Locally, Adam has progressed from the thirds to the 1st XI to play Birmingham League cricket for Himley CC
The 19-year-old received his cap before the start of play on 10 June in the Specsavers County Championship match with Lancashire at Blackfinch New Road.
Consequently, the Wordsley-born teenager becomes the latest and, possibly, the youngest entry into a list of more than ninety ‘Black Country-born First-Class Cricketers’. It is planned that each player will be featured in a book to commemorate the jubilee of Stourbridge & District Cricket Society in 2022. For more information, please see the following story.
Adam was born at Wordsley in 2000 and was educated at Kingswinford and Old Swinford Hospital 6th Form College.
A fast-medium right-arm bowler, he first gained international honours with England under 19s against South Africa in 2018 and in the following winter against Bangladesh.
Locally, Adam has progressed from the thirds to the 1st XI to play Birmingham League cricket for Himley CC
