Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in 2005 are playing their cricket in Division One of both the County Championship and totesport League. They started the Championship at 18–1 to win it, and as one of the teams most likely to be relegated from it. So they were—only their five draws prevented them from finishing bottom, and they were the only team to lose to bottom-placed Glamorgan. By the end of August, they were relegated, with three games to spare. In the National League, they were never better than sixth at any time during the season, and lost three games in succession to be ninth before the final round of matches. They won their last match, but were still relegated due to a worse net run rate than Lancashire. They were thus the first club to suffer double relegation since Leicestershire in 2003. Their Twenty20 and C&G Trophy campaigns ended almost as early as they could have done—Gloucestershire did get past the first round of the C&G Trophy, beating Berkshire, but were knocked out by Surrey. Gloucestershire played 18 first-class matches in 2005, winning two, drawing six and losing ten. In List A cricket, they won seven, lost ten and abandoned one game, while eight Twenty20 matches resulted in three wins, three losses and two no-results. Players Upul Chandana Ramnaresh Sarwan Malinga Bandara Steve Adshead Kadeer Ali Mark Alleyne James Averis Martyn Ball Ian Fisher Alex Gidman Carl Greenidge Tim Hancock Mark Hardinges Steve Kirby Jon Lewis James Pearson William Rudge Roger Sillence Stephen Snell Craig Spearman Phil Weston Matt Windows Tim Hancock Tables Championship totesport League Twenty20 Group Stage (Midlands/Wales/West) Match details April Their first first-class game was against Oxford UCCE, and Gloucestershire used it as batting practice. This was followed by a defeat by 48 runs in their first Championship game, away to Hampshire, and a defeat in the Sunday League at home to Northamptonshire. Gloucestershire then drew with Kent in the Championship. MCC University Match: Oxford UCCE v Gloucestershire (9–11 April) Match drawn Oxford Universities Cricketing Centre of Excellence and Gloucestershire started their 2005 first-class season at the Parks in Oxford on 9 April. Gloucestershire won the toss and chose to bat. They made 305 for 9 declared off 89.2 overs, Phil Weston's 103 making him the first Gloucestershire centurion of the season. The declaration left 9 overs for Oxford to bat through until the end of the first