Warwickshire Cricket

Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs that make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, currently playing their home games at Edgbaston in Birmingham. The club's limited overs side is called the Warwickshire Bears, playing most of their matches in black and gold. The club has won seven County Championships spread out through their history, most recently coming in 2012. Warwickshire have also won 11 major one-day titles, including six over the space of four years under the captaincy of Dermot Reeve. 

Warwickshire County Cricket Club was officially founded in April. 1882, going on to play their first County Championship in 1890, reaching full first-class status four years later. The club enjoyed a solid if unspectacular period between 1900 and 1906, only for a decline in fortunes in 1907 that saw the club spend more than a decade wallowing in the lower reaches of the table. 

All rounder Frank Foster inspired the club to the 1911 County Championship and the county's first major title, topping both the batting and bowling averages. The club weren't competitive again until after the war, when the signing of New Zealand fast bowler Tom Pritchard, alongside England bowler Eric Hollies, saw the club win the 1948 and 1951 County Championship. 

Warwickshire had to wait 21 years until 1971 before winning their next County Championship, with Lance Gibbs' bowling and a strong batting attack enabling the county to win the 1972 championship. Although the club went on to win the NatWest Trophy in 1989, it wasn't until a Brian Lara-inspired season in 1994 before Warwickshire won their next trophy, making up for the wait by clinching a historic treble. In that season Lara set the world record for a first-class cricket score of 501 against Durham. In 1995 they won the County Championship and the C&G Trophy, with Lara again playing a key role under Dermot Reeve's captaincy as the club won a double.

2004 saw the club clinch their sixth County Championship title, with captain Nick Knight leading the team to the title with help from England batsman Ian Bell, who finished the season with 1,498 runs at an average of over 70. Jim Troughton took over the captaincy in 2011, leading the club to the 2012 County Championship title. 

As well as Brian Lara, a host of international stars have spent time at Warwickshire, including the likes of Allan Donald, Shaun Pollock Waqar Younis and Kumar Sangakkara and Mohammad Yousuf.  

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