Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

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Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
One-day Name: Nottinghamshire Outlaws
Coach: Flag of England Mick Newell
Captain: Flag of England Chris Read
Overseas Player(s): Flag of Australia Adam Voges
Flag of Australia David Hussey
Founded: 1841
Home Ground: Trent Bridge
Capacity: 15,350
First-class debut: Sussex
in 1835
at Brighton
Championship wins: 5
Pro40 wins: 1
FP Trophy wins: 1
Twenty20 Cup wins: 0
Official Website: Nottinghamshire CCC

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.

The club plays most of its home games at the attractive Trent Bridge Ground in West Bridgford, just outside 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

Most first-class runs for Nottinghamshire
Qualification - 20000 runs [1]

Player Runs
George Gunn 31592
Tim Robinson 24439
Joe Hardstaff 24249
Walter Keeton 23744
John Gunn 23194
Reg Simpson 23088
Derek Randall 23069
Wilfred Payton 22079
Dodger Whysall 20376
Paul Johnson 20256
Arthur Jones 20244

Most first-class wickets for Nottinghamshire
Qualification - 1000 wickets [2]

Player Wickets
Thomas Wass 1653
Bill Voce 1312
William Attewell 1303
Sam Staples 1268
Harold Larwood 1247
Fred Barratt 1176
Len Richmond 1148
John Gunn 1128
Arthur Jepson 1050

Team totals

  • Highest Total For - 791 v Essex at Chelmsford 2007
  • 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 - 359 DJ Hussey and CMW Read v Essex at Nottingham 2007
  • 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

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 Nottinghamshire 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, played its first inter-county match versus Sussex at Brown’s Ground, Brighton on 27, 28 & 29 August 1835. Nottinghamshire was 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. Founding club captain William Clarke formed the All England Eleven team which included great players such as Fuller Pilch and Alfred Mynn, and laid the foundations for the England international team. It was Shaw's successor as Nottinghamshire captain, George Parr, who first captained a united England touring team. Early professional greats such as Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury enabled Nottinghamshire to at least compete with Yorkshire at their peak.

Thanks largely to the outstanding bowling combination of Tom Wass and Albert Hallam, the county won the County Championship in 1907.

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 of 1932-3. A few years earlier, in 1929, he had helped Nottinghamshire to win the County Championship.

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 captain Clive Rice and boyish England batting star Derek Randall led their team to the County Championship in 1981. The club's most successful season came in 1987, as Rice and Hadlee marked their departure with a double of County Championship and NatWest Trophy. Chris Broad and Tim Robinson continued the club's long tradition of batting excellence into the England team but for some years the club struggled to scale those heights of achievement again, although they did claim a Benson & Hedges Cup in 1989 and a Sunday League title in 1991 under Robinson's captaincy.

The following decade was one of underachievement, but 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, New Zealand's Stephen Fleming captaining the team to victory. However, the success was not sustained in 2006 and Notts were relegated by a margin of just half a point, although they had more success in the shorter formats and ended up runners-up on their debut appearance at Twenty20 Cup finals day. In 2007, Notts won promotion back to the top flight of the County Championship, finishing second in Division Two.

[edit] Notable former players

[edit] Players with most first-class appearances

[edit] Club captains

Captains of the club have included:

[edit] 2008 squad

                   Appearances      Runs      Wickets

[edit] Nottinghamshire Facts and Feats

  • Nottinghamshire fielded in lounge suits, rather than whites, on the final day against Hampshire at Southampton in May 1930. The home side had needed just one run for a five wicket victory when the extra half hour ended on the second evening but Notts captain A.W. Carr refused to play on. Notts took to the field the next morning in 'civvies', with Barratt and Voce wearing overcoats, and Kennedy hit the winning runs off Voce's second ball.
  • George Gunn and his son G.V. Gunn scored centuries in Notts' innings against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in 1931, thanks to the home side agreeing to extend play for a couple of overs. George finally retired at the age of 53 in 1932 after being hit on the head by an Alf Gover beamer.

[edit] External sources

[edit] Further reading

  • H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1962
  • Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
  • Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
  • Roy Webber, The Playfair Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1951
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