Bromsgrove Cricket Club is an amateur cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 club based in Worcestershire

Worcestershire

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. Founded in 1842, the club now play in the Birmingham and District Premier League

Birmingham and District Premier League

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. The 3XI and 4XI play in the Worcestershire county cricket league. The club has close links with Worcestershire County Cricket Club

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire...

. County players who have played for Bromsgrove include Stephen Peters

Stephen Peters

Stephen David Peters is an English cricketer. He has played for the county cricket teams of Essex and Worcestershire...

, Nadeem Malik

Nadeem Malik

Nadeem Malik , known by his last two names, is an English cricketer, a right-arm fast-medium seam bowler and right-handed lower-order batsman....

 and Kadeer Ali

Kadeer Ali

Abdul-Kadeer Ali is an English cricketer of Pakistani descent. Kadeer is currently at minor counties side Staffordshire. He has played for Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, as well as appearing for England A. He was capped by Gloucestershire in 2005...

. The most high profile player is Alexei Kervezee

Alexei Kervezee

Alexei Nicolaas Kervezee is a Namibian -born Dutch cricketer.Kervezee rose rapidly and smartly through age-group cricket in the Netherlands, and in late July 2005, aged only 15, he made his first-class debut for his national team against Scotland in the Intercontinental Cup...

 who plays international cricket for Netherlands. Former Indian Test

Test cricket

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 cricketer Sairal Bahutule also played for Bromsgrove in 1992. Other famous people but less noted for their cricket include English professional footballer Kevin Poole

Kevin Poole

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, poet A.E.Houseman and deputy controller of BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

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; Ben Cooper.