Graeme Hick

Last season, there was just one century in the entire Twenty20 competition, as made by Gloucestershire's Ian Harvey

Graduation to Division One was never likely to be straightforward but Worcestershire have been surprised by the quality of opposition they have faced on their first foray into the Championship's top flight

Down at Worcester last week, there was another, lower-profile, but equally astonishing return to prominence - one which has reawakened a debate that most observers had shelved at the turn of the millennium

Graeme Hick revived memories of summers gone by, with a phenomenal assault on New Zealand's Test attack at New Road

It was an interesting days cricket at the Rose Bowl where Hampshire had made a decent start to their requirement to score 413 for victory in their final home Frizzell Championship match of the season.

A stout innings from Simon Katich and a late flurry from Shaun Udal meant that Hampshire avoided the follow on in their Frizzell County Championship match against league leaders Worcestershire at the Rose Bowl, but at the close of the second day the

Andrew Hall held his nerve to bowl Worcestershire through to the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy final in a nail-biting and topsy-turvey semi-final against Lancashire at New Road

Lancashire's captain Warren Hegg believes that Graeme Hick is his team's biggest obstacle, if they are to overcome Worcestershire and reach the final of the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy

2001 Hamilton Masakadza becomes the first black African to score a Test century - and, for all of 41 days, the youngest debutant centurion in Test history

Graeme Hick is hoping to make a return for Worcestershire this weekend after missing more than a month of the season with a broken hand

Graeme Hick hit the 36th one-day century of his career as Worcestershire Royals marched to victory over Somerset Sabres in the first Division of the Norwich Union League at Taunton

Graeme Hick's fifth CricInfo Championship century of the season and the 116th of his first-class career derailed promotion hopefuls Warwickshire at Edgbaston

Graeme Hick has signed a new three-year contract with Worcestershire CCC that will keep him at the club until 2004

An unbeaten 101 put paid to Herefordshire's chances of causing another upset but could not snaffle the man of the match award from the Minor Counties team's hero, Ravi Nagra

Young wicket keeper Jamie Pipe claimed a competition record eight catches as Worcestershire stormed into the fourth round of the C & G Trophy

Graeme Hick has been confirmed as captain of Worcestershire

England warmed up for the three-match One-Day International series, which commences at the recently constructed Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium on Friday, with a comfortable 51 run victory against a talented Sri Lankan Board President's XI

Graeme Hick confessed he has had to put a "brave face" on being dropped from the team for the Colombo Test

The Graeme Hick saga continues