Gloucestershire County Cricket Club are an English cricket club based in Bristol. The club has played first-class cricket since 1870 against Surrey. 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. 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. Gloucestershire have never won the official County Championship, but have been runners-up on a number of occasions. 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.
The majority of Gloucestershire's captains have been English, as only Mike Procter, Courtney Walsh and Cameron Bancroft have played Test cricket for different nations (Michael Klinger played T20I cricket for Australia). 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.
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 1870–1899 359 359 2 Walter Troup 1899 21 21 3 Gilbert Jessop 1900–1912 252 252 4 Cyril Sewell 1913–1914 47 47 5 Foster Robinson 1919–1921 62 62 6 Philip Williams 1922–1923 49 49 7 Douglas Robinson 1924–1926 86 86 8 William Rowlands 1927–1928 60 60 9 Bev Lyon 1929–1934 128 128 10 Dallas Page 1935–1936 83 83 11 Basil Allen 1937–19381947–1950 190 190 12 Wally Hammond 1939–1946 63 63 13 Derrick Bailey 1951–1952 51 51 14 Jack Crapp 1953–1954 64 64 15 George Emmett 1955–1958 140 140 16 Tom Graveney 1959–1960 49 49 17 Tom Pugh 1961–1962 45 45 18 Ken Graveney 1963–1964 56 58 19 John Mortimore 1965–1967 94 98 20 Arthur Milton 1968 45 50 21 Tony Brown 1969–1976 165 149 314 22 Mike Procter 1977–1981 93 187 23 David Graveney 1982–1988 170 144 314 24 Bill Athey 1989 29 53 25 Tony Wright 1990–1993 78 160 26 Courtney Walsh 1993–19941996 41 77 27 Jack Russell 1995 24 61 28 Mark Alleyne 1997–2005 115 194 327 29 Jon Lewis 2006–2008 29 64 30 Alex Gidman 2009–2012 86 192 31 Michael Klinger 2013–2014 2013 2017 - - 32 Geraint Jones 2015 2014 2015 - - 33 Gareth Roderick 2016-2017 2013 2020 - - 34 Chris Dent 2018-2021 2009 2021 - - 35 Graeme van Buuren 2021-2024 2021 2024 - 36 Cameron Bancroft 2025-2026 2025 - - Notes
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