List of Gloucestershire cricket captains

W. G. Grace was the first club captain of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club are an English cricket club based in Bristol. The club has played first-class cricket since 1870 against Surrey.^[1] The club have played both List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket since their introductions into the English game in 1963 and 2003 respectively.

The county were captained for their first 29 years of first-class cricket by W. G. Grace, whose family had helped form the club.^[1] The 359 first-class matches which he captained are the most by any player, eclipsing the combined 327 matches of Mark Alleyne, who led the county in all three formats of the game. Alleyne captained the county during its most prosperous spell, during which time they won eight one-day trophies.^[2] Gloucestershire have never won the official County Championship, but have runners-up on a number of occasions.^[3] They achieved this twice under the captaincy of Bev Lyon, whose captaincy was the primary factor in him being named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1931. Wisden noted that he was "a possible England captain," though he never went on to appear for England.^[4]

The majority of Gloucestershire's captains have been English, only Mike Procter and Courtney Walsh have played international cricket for a different nation. Walter Troup, Cyril Sewell and George Emmett were all born outside of the United Kingdom, but within the British Empire. Three members of the Graveney family captained the county: Tom Graveney from 1959 to 1960, his brother Ken Graveney from 1963 to 1964, and the latter's son David Graveney between 1982 and 1988.^[5]

Key

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

Official captains

No.	Name	Nationality	Years	First	Last	FC	LA	T20	Total	Refs
1	W. G. Grace	England	1870–1899	000000001870-07-28-000028 July 1870	000000001899-05-25-000025 May 1899	359	-001 !–	-01 !–	359	[6]
2	Walter Troup	England	1899	000000001899-05-15-000015 May 1899	000000001911-06-29-000029 June 1911	21	-001 !–	-01 !–	21	[7]
3	Gilbert Jessop	England	1900–1912	000000001900-05-14-000014 May 1900	000000001913-08-04-00004 August 1913	252	-001 !–	-01 !–	252	[8]
4	Cyril Sewell	England	1913–1914	000000001912-05-23-000023 May 1912	000000001914-08-31-000031 August 1914	47	-001 !–	-01 !–	47	[9]
5	Foster Robinson	England	1919–1921	000000001919-05-23-000023 May 1919	000000001922-08-30-000030 August 1922	62	-001 !–	-01 !–	62	[10]
6	Philip Williams	England	1922–1923	000000001920-06-30-000030 June 1920	000000001925-05-20-000020 May 1925	49	-001 !–	-01 !–	49	[11]
7	Douglas Robinson	England	1924–1926	000000001921-06-11-000011 June 1921	000000001926-08-21-000021 August 1926	86	-001 !–	-01 !–	86	[12]
8	William Rowlands	England	1927–1928	000000001921-05-28-000028 May 1921	000000001928-08-25-000025 August 1928	60	-001 !–	-01 !–	60	[13]
9	Bev Lyon	England	1929–1934	000000001926-05-29-000029 May 1926	000000001939-08-19-000019 August 1939	128	-001 !–	-01 !–	128	[14]
10	Dallas Page	England	1935–1936	000000001934-05-02-00002 May 1934	000000001936-08-29-000029 August 1936	83	-001 !–	-01 !–	83	[15]
11	Basil Allen	England	1937–1938 1947–1950	000000001933-07-22-000022 July 1933	000000001950-09-02-00002 September 1950	190	-001 !–	-01 !–	190	[16]
12	Wally Hammond	England	1939–1946	000000001931-06-06-00006 June 1931	000000001946-08-10-000010 August 1946	63	-001 !–	-01 !–	63	[17]
13	Derrick Bailey	England	1951–1952	000000001949-06-15-000015 June 1949	000000001952-08-30-000030 August 1952	51	-001 !–	-01 !–	51	[18]
14	Jack Crapp	England	1953–1954	000000001951-05-12-000012 May 1951	000000001955-06-01-00001 June 1955	64	-001 !–	-01 !–	64	[19]
15	George Emmett	England	1955–1958	000000001953-06-03-00003 June 1953	000000001959-08-15-000015 August 1959	140	-001 !–	-01 !–	140	[20]
16	Tom Graveney	England	1959–1960	000000001951-06-13-000013 June 1951	000000001960-08-27-000027 August 1960	49	-001 !–	-01 !–	49	[21]
17	Tom Pugh	England	1961–1962	000000001961-04-29-000029 April 1961	000000001962-09-05-00005 September 1962	45	-001 !–	-01 !–	45	[22]
18	Ken Graveney	England	1963–1964	000000001963-05-01-00001 May 1963	000000001964-09-02-00002 September 1964	56	002 !2	-01 !–	58	[23][24]
19	John Mortimore	England	1965–1967	000000001964-04-29-000029 April 1964	000000001967-09-06-00006 September 1967	94	004 !4	-01 !–	98	[25][26]
20	Arthur Milton	England	1968	000000001957-07-17-000017 July 1957	000000001969-09-13-000013 September 1969	45	005 !5	-01 !–	50	[27][28]
21	Tony Brown	England	1969–1976	000000001969-04-27-000027 April 1969	000000001976-09-08-00008 September 1976	165	149	-01 !–	314	[29][30]
22	Mike Procter	South Africa	1977–1981	000000001971-05-26-000026 May 1971	000000001981-07-01-00001 July 1981	93	094 !94	-01 !–	187	[31][32]
23	David Graveney	England	1982–1988	000000001981-05-13-000013 May 1981	000000001988-09-14-000014 September 1988	170	144	-01 !–	314	[33][34]
24	Bill Athey	England	1989	000000001987-07-12-000012 July 1987	000000001992-08-30-000030 August 1992	29	024 !24	-01 !–	53	[35][36]
25	Tony Wright	England	1990–1993	000000001989-05-02-00002 May 1989	000000001993-07-07-00007 July 1993	78	082 !82	-01 !–	160	[37][38]
26	Courtney Walsh	West Indies	1993–1994 1996	000000001990-08-04-00004 August 1990	000000001996-09-19-000019 September 1996	41	036 !36	-01 !–	77	[39][40]
27	Jack Russell	England	1995	000000001993-08-08-00008 August 1993	000000002002-07-19-000019 July 2002	24	037 !37	-01 !–	61	[41][42]
28	Mark Alleyne	England	1997–2005	000000001994-06-25-000025 June 1994	000000002005-09-25-000025 September 2005	115	194	018 !18	327	[43][44][45]
29	Jon Lewis	England	2006–2008	000000002005-07-20-000020 July 2005	000000002009-06-04-00004 June 2009	29	021 !21	014 !14	64	[46][47][48]
30	Alex Gidman	England	2009–2012	000000002005-08-10-000010 August 2005	000000002012-09-11-000011 September 2012	86	073 !73	033 !33	192	[49][50][51]

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