Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic

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structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic 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 ...

. The club's limited overs team is called the Notts Outlaws. The county club was founded in 1841, although teams had played first-class cricket under the Nottinghamshire name since 1835. The county club has always held first-class status. Nottinghamshire have competed in the

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since the official start of the competition in 1890 and have played in every top-level elite domestic cricket competition in England. The club plays most of its home games at the Trent Bridge cricket ground in West Bridgford,

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, which is also a venue for Test matches. The club has played matches at numerous other venues in the county.

History

Nottingham Cricket Club is known to have played matches from 1771 onwards and 15 matches involving this side have been awarded first-class status from 1826. A single first-class match was played by a combined Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire side in 1803 but the first Nottinghamshire sides played in 1829. Eight matches played by this side between 1835 and 1840 have first-class status. The formal creation of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club was enacted in March or April 1841 (the exact date has been lost). William Clarke established Trent Bridge as a cricket venue adjacent to the public house he ran. It was Clarke's successor as Nottinghamshire captain, George Parr, who first captained a united England touring team in 1859. The club elected its first president, Sir Henry Bromley, in 1869. Early professional greats such as

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and Arthur Shrewsbury ensured that Notts were a force in the period before 1900. Thanks largely to the outstanding bowling combination of

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and

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, the county won the

in 1907 when George Gunn, John Gunn and

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were also prominent. Between the wars Notts enjoyed the services of the famous bowlers Harold Larwood and

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. Strong batting from George Gunn, Arthur Carr and

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saw them emerge as champions in 1929 after losing the title on the final day of the season in 1927. Prior to the second war, opening batsman Walter Keeton gained Test recognition, though the bowling was less effective. Through the early fifties the team was weak. The signing of the Australian leg break bowler

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, arrested the decline but until the signing of the incomparable

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in 1968, the team was weak. Sobers hit Malcolm Nash of Glamorgan for six sixes in an over in a County Championship game at

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in his first season. Mike Harris scored heavily in the 1970s, including nine centuries in 1971 but apart from Barry Stead, the bowling lacked penetration. Nottinghamshire enjoyed one of their strongest teams in the late seventies and early eighties when the

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Richard Hadlee, South African captain

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and England batsman

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led the team to the County Championship in 1981. The club's most successful season came in 1987, as Rice and Hadlee marked their departure with the 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 repeat those achievements, although they did claim a

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in 1989 and a Sunday League title in 1991 under Robinson's captaincy. Former Warwickshire off spinner Eddie Hemmings made a significant contribution while local seam bowler Kevin Cooper was a consistent wicket taker. 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. In 2008, the first season of

Chris Read Christopher Mark Wells Read (born 10 August 1978) is an English former cricketer who was the captain of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. He played for the England cricket team in 15 Tests and 36 ODIs. He was a wicket-keeper. Personal life C ...

's captaincy, they came close to winning both the County Championship and NatWest Pro40 outright, losing to Hampshire on the final day and Sussex on the final ball respectively. In 2010, Nottinghamshire made it to Finals Day of the

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Twenty20 Cup. Drawn against

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, Notts lost on the Duckworth Lewis method. However, they won the County Championship on the last day, having lost the preceding two matches, with Somerset in second place tied on points but with one less win. 2013 brought a second major trophy of the Read era with victory in the

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one-day competition. While further titles eluded them, Notts remained a fixture in the First Division of the Championship for the next decade under Read's long-running captaincy, also featuring a number of England players including Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann,

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and Samit Patel. In 2017, trophy success returned to Notts. Under the captaincy of Australian

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, they won their first T20 Blast trophy beating Birmingham Bears in the final, whilst in the same season securing the

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with victory over Surrey. Read, by now only captaining the first-class side, retired in 2017 and was replaced as club captain by Steven Mullaney, with Christian continuing to lead the T20 side. Despite struggles in the longer game, Notts won a second T20 Blast title in 2020, beating Surrey in a rain-affected final.

Sponsorship

Players

Current squad

* No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of his shirt. * denotes players with international caps. * denotes a player who has been awarded a county cap.

Former players

The players with over 400 first-class appearances for the club are: * George Gunn 583 (1902–32) * Wilf Payton 489 (1905–31) * John Gunn 489 (1896-1925) * Tom Oates 420 (1897-1925) * Arthur Carr 416 (1910–34) *

Joe Hardstaff Jr Joseph Hardstaff Jr (3 July 1911 – 1 January 1990) was an English cricketer, who played in twenty three Test matches for England from 1935 to 1948. Hardstaff's father, Joe senior played for Nottinghamshire and England and his son, also nam ...

408 (1930–55) *

Willis Walker Willis Walker (24 November 1892 − 3 December 1991) was an English footballer and County Cricketer. He played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Leeds City, South Shields, Bradford Park Avenue and Stockport County. As a Nottinghamsh ...

405 (1913–37) The players with over 600 total club appearances (first-class, list A and twenty20; reflecting the introduction of one day county cricket in 1963) are: *

800 (1971–93) * Paul Johnson 748 (1981-2002) * Tim Robinson 742 (1978–99) *

703 (1998-2017) * Basher Hassan 614 (1966–85) * Bruce French 603 (1976–95)

Club captains

A full list of captains of the club from its formation to the present day:Nottinghamshire Club Captains
Retrieved on 6 February 2011.

Records

Team totals

*Highest total for – 791 v.

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, 2007 *Highest total against – 781/7 dec by Northamptonshire, Northampton, 1995 *Lowest total for – 13 v. Yorkshire, Nottingham, 1901 *Lowest total against – 16 by Derbyshire, Nottingham, 1879

Batting

*Highest score – 312 * W. W. Keeton v. Middlesex, The Oval, 1939 *Most runs in season – 2,620 W. W. Whysall, 1929

Highest partnership for each wicket

*1st – 406 * D. J. Bicknell and G. E. Welton v. Warwickshire, Birmingham, 2000 *2nd – 402 Haseeb Hameed and B. M. Duckett v. Derbyshire, Derby, 2022 *3rd – 367 W. Gunn and J. R. Gunn v. Leicestershire, Nottingham, 1903 *4th – 361 A. O. Jones and J. R. Gunn v. Essex, Leyton, 1905 *5th – 359 D. J. Hussey and C. M. W. Read v. Essex, Nottingham, 2007 *6th – 372 * K. P. Pietersen and J. E. Morris v. Derbyshire, Derby, 2001 *7th – 301 C. C. Lewis and B. N. French v. Durham, Chester-le-Street, 1993 *8th – 220 G. F. H. Heane and R. Winrow v. Somerset, Nottingham, 1935 *9th – 170 J. C. Adams and K. P. Evans v. Somerset, Taunton, 1994 *10th – 152 E. B. Alletson and W. Riley v. Sussex, Hove, 1911

Bowling

*Best bowling – 10/66 K. Smales v. Gloucestershire, Stroud, 1956 *Best match bowling – 17/89 F. C. L. Matthews v. Northamptonshire, Nottingham, 1923 *Wickets in season – 181 B. Dooland, 1954

Honours

First XI honours

(6) – 1907, 1929, 1981, 1987, 2005, 2010 :''Division Two'' (2) –

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, 2022 * Gillette/NatWest/C&G Trophy (1) – 1987 * Sunday/National League (1) – 1991 *

(1) – 1989 *

(1) – 2013 *

(1) – 2017 * T20 Blast (2) – 2017, 2020

Second XI honours

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(3) – 1972, 1985, 2015 * Second XI Trophy (1) – 2011

Notes

References

External links

Notts CCC homepage
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