Queens’ College Cricket Club

Men’s Cricket Captain

Aditya Kalra (2022)

Blues

Grace Burton (2021) (Half Blue)

Sophie Hicks Beach (2021) (Half Blue)

Hon Life Patrons:

Dr Geoff Cook (1955): Cambridge University & Kent

Mr John Spencer (1969): Cambridge University & Sussex

Mr Nick Cosh (1965): Cambridge University & Surrey

Mr Stephen Fry (1978): MCC President-elect 2022-23

Mr Tom Holland (1986): Queens’ & Authors XI

Mr Roger Maynard (1962): Queens’ 1965 Cuppers winning Team

Mr Ruel Brathwaite (2008): Cambridge University, Durham & Hampshire

Baroness Bryony Worthington (1990): Queens’

The Club normally runs a JCR XI and an MCR XI in both the Cuppers and League competitions. Please note that, as there is not a separate women’s cricket competition, women are warmly invited to play equally for their respective JCR/MCR teams.

Fellow Patron: Prof Richard Rex rawr1@cam.ac.uk

Cuppers Champions: 1965.
Runners-up: 1980, 2016

Internationals

Walter Robins (1925): captain of England; 19 Test matches

• http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/155449.html

Gamini Goonesena (1953): captain of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

• the first Asian player to captain Cambridge University
• As captain he scored 211 in the University match in 1957, still the highest individual score by a Cambridge player in the annual fixture, and then took 4–40 in Oxford second innings to secure a crushing victory for Cambridge by an innings and 186 runs, the biggest margin of defeat since the series began in 1827.
• Gamini and Geoffrey Cook (also Queens’), who scored 111, put on 289 runs for the seventh wicket, thereby registering the highest partnership for any wicket by either side in this series and it also constituted the record partnership in first-class cricket for the seventh wicket at Lord’s.

Ian Pieris (1955): All-Ceylon

County Players

Gamini Goonesena (1953, Notts); Gwyn Hughes (1964, Glamorgan); Nick Cosh (1965, Surrey); John Spencer (1969, Sussex); Alastair Scott (1984), Sussex); Tim Head (1985, Sussex), Ruel Brathwaite (2008, Durham & Hampshire)

Blues

Stuart Squires (1944), Sir Oliver Popplewell (1948), Mike Bushby (1951), Gamini Goonesena (1953), Geoff Cook (1955), Ian Pieris (1955), John Rutherford (1956), Bob Chambers (1962), Gwyn Hughes (1964), David Aers (1965), Nick Cosh (1965), John Spencer (1965), Barry Bennett (1976), Alastair Scott (1984), Mike Yeabsley (1994), Adrian Shankar (2001), Ian Massey (2004), Anand Ashok (2004), Ruel Brathwaite (2008), Alex Hunt (2014), James Onley-Gregson (2020)