“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 […]
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Gloucestershire Women travel to Radlett to take on Middlesex in Women’s One Day Cup
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 […]
Vitality Blast holders Gloucestershire Cricket look to make new memories in their 2025 campaign
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 […]
Park Life Sport Live Blog: Cheltenham Town press conference, Swindon Town protest group & More
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 […]
“We couldn’t show the Freshers what it is like” Charlie Gould spoke about the cancellation of Cricket Varsity 2024
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 […]
University of Gloucestershire’s cricket vice-captain on the upcoming outdoor season, a successful indoor campaign, and dealing with varsity cancellation
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 falter as India take series win with a game to play
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 […]
Gloucestershire player-coach Tom Smith looks forward to the 2024 County season
“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.” […]
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club look to move away from historic home ground
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club are looking at opportunities into selling their home ground, since 1889, the Bristol County Ground as they looked to become more competitive and sustainable for a long period of time. With Nevil Road being located near the centre of Bristol, the potential of expanding and improving the facilities, on the pitch […]
Major staff changes at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club while two players get winter playing opportunities
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club head coach Dale Benkenstein and bowling coach Robbie Joseph have recently left the club, taking opportunities with Lancashire and Kent for the upcoming 2024 season. Before spending two years as head coach of Gloucestershire, Benkenstein had previously worked for Lancashire as batting coach on a short-term basis in the summer of […]