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Nottingham Cricket Club was an English
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club which played in
Nottingham Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robi ...
during the 18th and 19th centuries. Matches have been recorded between 1771 to 1848 and the team played in 15
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between 1826 and 1848. The earliest reference to cricket in the county of
Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...
is a match between Nottingham and
Sheffield Cricket Club The Sheffield Cricket Club was founded in the 18th century and soon began to play a key role in the development of cricket in northern England. It was the direct forerunner of Yorkshire County Cricket Club and some of the teams fielded by Sheffi ...
at the Forest Racecourse in Nottingham in August 1771. In many sources, the Nottingham team is called the "Nottingham Old Club" or as the "town club" to distinguish it from
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Nottinghamshire. The club's limited overs team is called the ...
, which began playing in the 1840s. Nottinghamshire as a county team played its first inter-county match versus
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at Brown's Ground in
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in August 1835,First-class matches played by Nottinghamshire
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
with early matches probably being organised by the town club. There is still a Nottingham Cricket Club, known as Nottinghamians which is part of the
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club of that name.


First-class matches played by Nottingham Cricket Club

Nottingham played 15 first-class matches between July 1826 and August 1848. Their first first-class opponents were a Sheffield and Leicester side. Their opponents were most frequently Sheffield, with 12 of the 15 matches against this side. The team also played two matches against the Cambridge Town Club.First-class matches played by Nottingham
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-27.


See also

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List of Nottingham Cricket Club players This is a complete list, in alphabetical order, of cricketers who played for Nottingham Cricket Club in first-class cricket matches. Nottingham played a total of 15 first-class matches, 13 of them between 1826 and 1834 and two in 1848 after the ...


References

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