List of Bedfordshire County Cricket Club List A players
This is a list of cricketers who have played for Bedfordshire County [Cricket Club] in List A matches. Bedfordshire, one of the Minor Counties, played 27 List A cricket matches – a one-day, limited overs form of cricket – between 1967 and 2005. After making their List A debut in the 1967 Gillette Cup the county played six matches Gillette [Cup (England)|in the competition] up to 1973 and then once in 1977. Minor counties were not a regular feature of List A competitions and Bedfordshire played ten matches in the NatWest Trophy between 1982 and 2000 before playing ten matches in the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy between 2001 and 2005.
The knock-out nature of the Gillette Cup means that in most competitions Bedfordshire only played one match, most often against a first-class county. They won eight matches during the time they competed in List A competitions: the first win coming in their second match in 1968. On three occasions the county reached the third round of a List A competition in 1999, 2001 and 2003, beating other Minor Counties or Cricket Boards, as well as Netherlands national [cricket team|the Netherlands] in 2002.
Players are listed alphabetically with the number of matches played and the calendar years in which they made their first and last appearances in List A cricket for Bedfordshire. Most players also made appearances for Bedfordshire in the Minor [Counties Championship] and some will have represented other teams in top-class cricket. Only their appearances for Bedfordshire are included below.