Former fast bowler Richardson took over as head coach in 2022 after an 18-year playing career and won promotion in his first season, but says last year’s trophy win holds a special place.<\/p>\n
Losing left-arm spinner Josh Baker, who died in May 2024 at the age of 20, gave the trophy win extra meaning.<\/p>\n
“No matter how long you’re in cricket you get a handful of amazing days that you want to really remember and hold on to, and that is one for many reasons,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Obviously the club winning a trophy, but also in the memory of Josh as well. <\/p>\n
“We played some really good cricket in the campaign and it culminated in that very special day for us.”<\/p>\n
Worcestershire will face a rematch with Hampshire and also play 2024 winners Glamorgan in a hectic schedule of eight group matches in 18 days.<\/p>\n
They will be without Jack Home for a spell following his injury last week, while fellow bowler Adam Finch will represent Manchester Super Giants in the Hundred.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had a lot of things thrown at us in this competition over the last couple of years, a lot of injuries and a lot of other things,” said Richardson. <\/p>\n
“No doubt we’ll have a lot of things thrown at us again, but this group are amazingly resilient and stick together really well, so the next three weeks should be something we really enjoy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former fast bowler Richardson took over as head coach in 2022 after an 18-year playing career and won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}