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Gloucestershire fast bowler Luke Charlesworth says “he cant deal with the forceful Monopoly or cards” during prolonged rain delays and long days in the dressing room. For six months of the year fields are turned from football pitches into outfields as the whites are thrown on and a red leather ball is thrown around. County […]
“I remember the summer being really weird, you know we’re in April, May, June and you haven’t bowled a ball yet. “April comes around, you start getting excited about the season, but you know we’re talking a midsummer’s day, hot summer and you’re just in the garden whereas on a normal Saturday you’d be playing […]
“The top seven or eight are all high quality batters, I’m just trying to learn off the local lads, and just watching how they go about it seeing when they get a bit of a trickier wicket how they adapt their game.” Australian international Cameron Green signed for Gloucestershire on a five game County Championship […]
Gloucestershire Women travel to Radlett on Thursday to take on Middlesex Women in the Metro Bank Women’s One Day Cup Division Two. The side hasn’t played since they were knocked out of the Women’s T20 County Cup on May 5 as they fell to a 33-run defeat after they failed to chase down 183. There […]
Gloucestershire Cricket is looking to back up its 2024 Vitality Blast success in 2025 with more white ball victories and a promotion to the County Championship. The 2024 victory was a completely unexpected one as they were without a finals day appearance since 2007 and only managed to scrape into the quarter-finals due to a […]
Hello and welcome to today’s Park Life Sport live blog. We have stories from all around Gloucestershire including Cheltenham Town’s Press conference ahead of their league fixture against Chesterfield, news from Cheltenham Saracens under-18s boss Beckem Foley looking towards their SevernSports semi final clash, deadline day news from Gloucestershire based teams, UoG sporting news and […]
University of Gloucestershire Cricket’s Varsity has been cancelled this year due to circumstances out of their hands, but the team wants to put that behind them to prepare for the outdoor BUCS season. The Social Secretary speaks about the indoor team making it to the national indoor finals “A really successful Indoor BUCS campaign reaching […]
Adam Sercombe, the vice-captain of the University of Gloucestershire’s cricket team, believes the team can “go and win the BUCS outdoor league this season.” After a successful indoor cricket campaign over the winter months, the university’s first team are preparing for the upcoming BUCS outdoor league, which starts in May. Sercombe has high hopes for […]
England once again gave away a strong position to lose a third Test match on the bounce in their tour of India in Ranchi, with the series scoreline now 3-1 with one game to play in Dharamshala. Despite Joe Root’s stunning century in the first innings of the test, in a fashion somewhat akin to […]
“It was a very challenging year for us, a year of near misses really.” Gloucestershire player-coach Tom Smith said, reflecting on finishing bottom of the County Championship. “It was a frustrating year, there were loads of opportunities, especially when we played against Worcestershire, and it was rain affected, we were close to winning that one.” […]