Constantine wrote letters to the bus company and Stephenson and spoke out against the colour bar to reporters when he attended the cricket match between the West Indies and Gloucestershire at the County Ground, which took place from the 4th to 7 May.
Gregg played cricket for Gloucestershire up to under-16 level before deciding to concentrate on his football career.
Reid gave up the chance of a professional cricket career with Gloucestershire, having played for their second XI, to pursue his career with Argyle and was rewarded with a professional contract in February 2006, along with fellow trainees Scott Laird and Chris Zebroski.
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Gloucestershire became the first side to concede 500 against the Australians, and suffered the largest defeat margin thus far on tour, losing by an innings and 222 runs at Ashley Down.
Ben Matthew Edmondson (born 28 September 1978 in Southport, Queensland) is an Australian cricketer who has played for the Western Warriors, Southern Redbacks and Gloucestershire.
Forming a formidable opening combination with Fred Trueman, Platt, a right arm medium bowler, took 301 wickets at an average of 22.58, with a best of 7 for 40 against Gloucestershire.
He played 2 further List A matches for Oxfordshire, against Cornwall and Gloucestershire in the 1975 Gillette Cup.
In 2005, the ground hosted its first Twenty20 match when Northamptonshire played Gloucestershire in the 2005 Twenty20 Cup.
Charles Roden Filgate (16 October 1849 (Lissrenny, Ardee, County Louth, Ireland) – 1 September 1930 (Grove House, Pinner, Middlesex, England)) was an Irish amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1869 to 1877 for Gloucestershire and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), where he was a member.
Van der Gucht’s grandfather, Paul van der Gucht, was a first-class cricketer between 1932 and 1947, who played for Gloucestershire and Bengal.
During the same season he also represented the county in 2 List-A matches against the touring New Zealanders and Gloucestershire in the totesport League.
Following independence the ground has been used by the Zambia national cricket team, who played county opponents in the form of Gloucestershire, Glamorgan and Warwickshire at the ground in the 1970s, though the matches held no official status.
Vassila played a single first-class match for Middlesex in 1880 against Gloucestershire at the Clifton College Close Ground in Clifton, Bristol.
In the match against Gloucestershire at Bristol, he came to the wicket with Somerset at 331 for five, with Dar Lyon having already scored a century.
In 1954 Lobban made only two first-class appearances, and managed only the single wicket of Gloucestershire tail-ender Bomber Wells.
Witchell made a single first-class appearance for Gloucestershire against Hampshire in the 1923 County Championship at the Spa Ground, Gloucester.
The 1926 season was Hill's best with the bat and against Gloucestershire at Taunton, batting at No 10, he hit 60 in "just over half an hour", with two sixes and 10 fours and including 18 off a single over from Charles Parker.
Mark Ramprakash was dismissed 'Obstructing the field' on 30 July 2011, in a County Championship Division 2 match between Surrey and Gloucestershire.
In-between his university appearances, Samson had hit the only century of his first-class cricket career for Somerset in the match against Gloucestershire at Gloucester; the century, 105, came after Gloucestershire had been dismissed for just 61, and Beaumont Cranfield and Len Braund bowled unchanged through the two Gloucestershire innings.
There were a couple of minor bright spots only: he hit a fighting 36 not out as part of an unbroken last-wicket stand of 58 with Norman Gifford (30*) against Gloucestershire, and he also took the first of only two career one-day wickets when he dismissed Kent's John Shepherd in June.
All of his four remaining first-class matches were for MCC: two at Lord's (against Gloucestershire in June 1955 and against Cambridge University a year later) and two at Dublin in September 1956 and September 1958, both against Ireland.
From 1991 to 2005, the ground hosted 6 List-A matches, with the final List-A match played at the ground between Berkshire and Gloucestershire in the 2005 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy.
The ground has also played host to 6 matches involving the Gloucestershire Second XI in the Second XI Championship and Second XI Trophy.