After three years leading the county championship team, graeme van buuren will step down as club captain.

The all-rounder will continue to feature across all three formats in 2025 as he returns his full focus to capabilities as a middle-order batter and left-arm othodox spinner.

Across three seasons as red ball skipper, van Buuren scored 1668 runs at an average of 37.07 with four hundreds.

In his first season leading gloucestershire’s red ball set up, van buuren led the shire to wins over warwickshire at bristol and yorkshire at headingley. his high score of 127* at cheltenham in 2022 helped set up an aggressive declaration against northants, a match glos narrowly lost by two wickets on the final day.