Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

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Nottinghamshire
Established 1841
First-Class Debut v Sussex at Brighton on August 27, 1835
Captain Stephen Fleming
Coach Mick Newell
County Titles 12 (shared 6 times)

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws.

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The Radcliffe Road stand at Nottinghamshire's home ground, Trent Bridge.

The club plays most of its home games at the attractive Trent Bridge Ground in Nottingham, which is also a venue for Test matches. The club has also played games around and outside the county at Worksop, Cleethorpes and Newark.

In the 2005 season, Notts won Division One of the County Championship, this being the club's fifth title since 1890. However, in 2006, they were relegated from the County Championship First Division after an innings and 245 run defeat to Sussex combined with Yorkshire and Durham drawing with each other in the last round of matches.

Notts were close runners-up in the 2006 Twenty20 cup, losing to Leicestershire after a thrilling finals day at Trent Bridge.

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[edit] Honours

  • Champion County (12) - 1853, 1862, 1865, 1868, 1871, 1872, 1875, 1880, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886; shared (6) - 1852, 1869, 1873, 1879, 1882, 1889
  • County Championship (5) - 1907, 1929, 1981, 1987, 2005
Division Two (1) - 2004
  • Gillette/NatWest/C&G Trophy (1) - 1987
  • Sunday/National League (1) - 1991
  • Twenty20 Cup (0) -
  • Benson & Hedges Cup (1) - 1989

[edit] Second XI honours

  • Second XI Championship (2) - 1972, 1985; shared (0) -
  • Second XI Trophy (0) -
  • Minor Counties Championship (0) - ; shared (0) -

[edit] Records

Highest Total For - 739-7 declared v Leicestershire at Nottingham 1903

Highest Total Against - 781-7dec by Northamptonshire at Northampton 1995

Lowest Total For - 13 v Yorkshire at Nottingham 1901

Lowest Total Against - 16 by Derbyshire at Nottingham 1879


Batting


Highest Score - 312* WW Keeton v Middlesex at The Oval 1939

Most Runs in Season - 2620 WW Whysall in 1929

Most Runs in Career - 31592 G Gunn 1902-1932


Best Partnership for each wicket


1st - 406 DJ Bicknell and GE Welton v Warwickshire at Birmingham 2000

2nd - 398 A Shrewsbury and W Gunn v Sussex at Nottingham 1890

3rd - 369 W Gunn and JR Gunn v Leicestershire at Nottingham 1903

4th - 361 AO Jones and JR Gunn v Essex at Leyton 1905

5th - 266 A Shrewsbury and W Gunn v Sussex at Hove 1884

6th - 303 FH Winrow and PF Harvey v Derbyshire at Nottingham 1947

7th - 301 CC Lewis and BN French v Durham at Chester-le-Street 1993

8th - 220 GFH Heane and R Winrow v Somerset at Nottingham 1935

9th - 170 JC Adams and KP Evans v Somerset at Taunton 1994

10th - 152 EB Alletson and W Riley v Sussex at Hove 1911


Bowling


Best Bowling - 10-66 K Smales v Gloucestershire at Stroud 1956

Best Match Bowling - 17-89 FCL Matthews v Northamptonshire at Nottingham 1923

Wickets in Season - 181 B Dooland in 1954

Wickets in Career - 1653 TG Wass 1896-1920


[edit] Earliest cricket

Curiously, the earliest known reference to cricket in the county is the Nottingham Cricket Club v Sheffield Cricket Club match on the Forest Racecourse at Nottingham on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 August 1771. The outcome of the game was "not determined on account of a dispute having arisen by one of the Sheffield players being jostled"! The match is the first important inter-county match involving teams from either Notts or Yorkshire.

This match involved the old Nottingham town club which continued to play first-class cricket into the 19th century.

For information about first-class cricket in the county before the formation of Notts CCC, see : Nottingham Cricket Club

[edit] Origin of club

Nottinghamshire as a county team, and perhaps also as Notts CCC, played its first inter-county match versus Sussex at Brown’s Ground, Brighton on 27, 28 & 29 August 1835. Notts is recognised as a first-class county team, rather than a town club team, from 1835 but it is doubtful if the organisation at this time was a formally constituted club.

The formal creation of Nottinghamshire CCC was enacted in March or April of 1841 (the exact date has been lost).

[edit] History

Beloved of Neville Cardus, Trent Bridge has played host to some of the most famous names of English Cricket. Early professional greats such as Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury enabled Nottinghamshire to at least compete with Yorkshire at their peak. The tearaway paceman Harold Larwood spearheaded Douglas Jardine's successful assault on Don Bradman and the Australian team to claim the Ashes in the infamous bodyline series. Known for astute foreign signings, the club landed the greatest overseas star of them all in Sir Garfield Sobers in the late sixties. Sobers hit Malcolm Nash of Glamorgan for six sixes in an over in a County Championship game.

Nottinghamshire enjoyed one of their strongest teams in the late seventies and early eighties when the ultra professional New Zealand all-rounder Sir Richard Hadlee, South African strongman Clive Rice and boyish England batting star Derek Randall led their team to the county championship. Chris Broad and Tim Robinson continued the club's long tradition of batting excellence into the England team but the club has since struggled to scale those heights of achievement again.

In 2004, Nottinghamshire enjoyed a highly successful season, gaining promotion to both the Frizzell County Championship Division One, after winning Division Two, and also Totesport Division One. In 2005, Nottinghamshire won their first County Championship title since 1987 with Stephen Fleming captaining the team to victory.

[edit] Notable former players

[edit] Players with most first-class appearances

[edit] Club captains

Captains of the club have included:

[edit] 2006 squad

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Notts CCC homepage

A history of cricket and cricketers in Nottinghamshire


English first-class cricket clubs

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