Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club Totally Explained

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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.

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 ť Division Two (1) - 2004
Gillette/NatWest/C&G Trophy (1) - 1987
Sunday/National League (1) - 1991
Twenty20 Cup (0) -
Benson & Hedges Cup (1) - 1989

Second XI honours

Second XI Championship (2) - 1972, 1985; shared (0) -

Second XI Trophy (0) -

Minor Counties Championship (0) - ; shared (0) -

Records

Most first-class runs for Nottinghamshire
Qualification - 20000 runs (External Link

)

Player	uns
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 (External Link

)

Player	ickets
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

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

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's 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).

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'd 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 wasn't sustained in 2006 and Notts were relegated by a margin of just half a point, although they'd 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.

Notable former players

William Clarke (founder of Trent Bridge and the All-England Eleven)

George Parr (known as "The Lion of the North")

William Gunn (co-founder of Nottingham-based cricket equipment manufacturer Gunn & Moore)

John Jackson (great roundarm fast bowler)

Alfred Shaw (one of the greatest bowlers of the 19th century)

Arthur Shrewsbury (top-class England opening batsman)

Ted Alletson (mediocre blocker turned record-breaking biffer)

W.W. ('Dodger') Whysall (prolific run scorer and England Test player)

George Gunn (fine batsman and noted eccentric)

Harold Larwood (outstanding England fast bowler)

Sir Gary Sobers (brilliant West Indies all rounder)

Sir Richard Hadlee (New Zealand all-rounder)

Derek Randall (lovable England batsman and star fielder)

Clive Rice (South African master-tactician)

Tim Robinson (England opening batsman)

Chris Broad (England opening batsman)

Bruce French (England wicketkeeper)

Franklyn Stephenson (West Indian all-rounder, last player to achieve the 1000 runs/100 wickets season "double" in 1988)

Chris Cairns (big-hitting New Zealand all-rounder)

Kevin Pietersen (powerful South African-born England batsman)

Stephen Fleming (New Zealand's longest-serving Test and ODI captain and aguable the best)

Players with most first-class appearances

George Gunn

JR Gunn

William Gunn

Joe Hardstaff junior

Bruce French

Geoff Millman

Club captains

Captains of the club have included:

George Parr

Alfred Shaw

Arthur Carr

Clive Rice (1979-87)

Tim Robinson (1988-95)

Paul Johnson (1996-98)

Jason Gallian (1998-2004)

Stephen Fleming (2005-2007)

Chris Read (appointed for 2008 season)

2008 squad

Appearances Runs Wickets

Matthew Wood

Gareth Clough

Mark Ealham

Paul Franks

Andrew Harris

David Hussey

Samit Patel

Chris Read

Mark Wagh

Andre Adams

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.

External sources

Notts CCC homepage

A history of cricket and cricketers in Nottinghamshire

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