Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

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Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
File:Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club logo.jpeg
Personnel
CaptainChris Read
CoachPeter Moores
Overseas player(s)James Pattinson
Cheteshwar Pujara
Dan Christian (T20)
Ish Sodhi (T20)
Team information
Founded1841
Home groundTrent Bridge
Capacity17,500
History
Championship wins6
Pro40 wins1
FP Trophy/YB40/Royal London One Day Cup wins3
T20 Blast wins1
B&H Cup wins1
Official websiteNottinghamshire CCC

Test kit

ODI kit

T20I kit

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 Notts Outlaws. Nottinghamshire teams formed by earlier organisations since 1771, essentially the old Nottingham Cricket Club, had senior status and so the county club is rated accordingly from inception: i.e., classified by substantial sources as holding important match status from 1841 to 1894;[1][2] classified as an official first-class team from 1895 by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the County Championship clubs;[3] classified as a List A team since the beginning of limited overs cricket in 1963;[4] and classified as a senior Twenty20 team since 2003.[5]

The club plays most of its home games at the Trent Bridge cricket ground in West Bridgford, Nottingham, which is also a venue for Test matches. The club has played matches at numerous other venues in the county.[6] Their kit colours are dark green with a gold/yellow trim for the Natwest T20 Blast and more yellow dominant for the Royal London One Day Cup.

Honours

See also: List of the competitive honours won by county cricket clubs in England and Wales

First XI honours

Division Two (1) – 2004

Second XI honours

Records

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 – 372* KP Pietersen and JE Morris v Derbyshire at Derby 2001
  • 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.[7] 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 important matches into the 19th century.

Origin of club

Nottinghamshire as a county team, played its first inter-county match versus Sussex at Brown's Ground, Brighton on 27, 28 and 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 1841 (the exact date has been lost).

History

Founding club captain William Clarke formed the All-England Eleven team which included great players such as Fuller Pilch and Alfred Mynn. It was Clarke's successor as Nottinghamshire captain, George Parr, who first captained a united England touring team in 1859. Early professional greats such as Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury ensured that Notts were a force in the period before 1900. Thanks largely to the outstanding bowling combination of Tom Wass and Albert Hallam, the county won the County Championship in 1907 when George Gunn, John Gunn and Wilfred Payton were also prominent.

Between the wars Notts enjoyed the services of the famous bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce. Strong batting from George Gunn, Arthur Carr and Dodger Whysall 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 Bruce Dooland, arrested the decline but until the signing of the incomparable Garfield Sobers in 1968, the team was weak. Sobers hit Malcolm Nash of Glamorgan for six sixes in an over in a County Championship game at Swansea 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 New Zealand all-rounder Richard Hadlee, South African captain Clive Rice and England batsman Derek Randall 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 Benson & Hedges Cup 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'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 Friends Provident Twenty20 Cup. Drawn against Somerset, 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 YB40 one-day competition. While further titles and a first T20 Blast success have eluded them, Notts have remained a fixture in the First Division of the Championship this decade under Read's long-running captaincy, also featuring a number of England players including Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, Alex Hales, James Taylor and Samit Patel.

Players

Current squad

  • No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt.
  • ‡ denotes players with international caps.
  •  *  denotes a player who has been awarded a county cap.
No. Name Nat Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
2 Jake Libby  England (1993-01-03) 3 January 1993 (age 31) Right-handed Right arm off break
3 Cheteshwar Pujara ‡  India (1988-01-25) 25 January 1988 (age 36) Right-handed Right arm leg break Overseas player
10 Alex Hales* ‡  England (1989-01-03) 3 January 1989 (age 35) Right-handed Right arm medium England white-ball contract
71 Billy Root  England (1991-08-05) 5 August 1991 (age 32) Left-handed Right arm off break
All-rounders
5 Steven Mullaney*   England (1986-11-19) 19 November 1986 (age 37) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
21 Samit Patel* ‡  England (1984-11-30) 30 November 1984 (age 39) Right-handed Slow left arm orthodox
54 Dan Christian* ‡  Australia (1983-05-04) 4 May 1983 (age 40) Right-handed Right arm fast-medium T20 captain, Overseas player
Wicket-keeper
1 Brendan Taylor ‡  Zimbabwe (1986-02-06) 6 February 1986 (age 38) Right-handed Right arm off break Kolpak registration
7 Chris Read* ‡  England (1978-08-10) 10 August 1978 (age 45) Right-handed Right arm off break Club captain (First-class and List A cricket), retiring at end of 2017 season
9 Riki Wessels*   Australia (1985-11-12) 12 November 1985 (age 38) Right-handed — England qualified
23 Tom Moores  England (1996-09-04) 4 September 1996 (age 27) Left-handed —
Bowlers
4 James Pattinson ‡  Australia (1990-05-03) 3 May 1990 (age 33) Left-handed Right arm medium-fast Overseas player
8 Stuart Broad* ‡  England (1986-06-24) 24 June 1986 (age 37) Left-handed Right arm fast-medium England test contract
11 Harry Gurney*  ‡  England (1986-10-25) 25 October 1986 (age 37) Right-handed Left arm fast
14 Luke Wood  England (1995-08-02) 2 August 1995 (age 28) Left-handed Left arm medium
17 Ben Kitt  England (1995-01-18) 18 January 1995 (age 29) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
18 Mark Footitt  England (1985-11-25) 25 November 1985 (age 38) Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium
19 Luke Fletcher*   England (1988-09-18) 18 September 1988 (age 35) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
20 Matthew Carter  England (1996-05-26) 26 May 1996 (age 27) Right-handed Right arm off break
26 Brett Hutton  England (1993-02-06) 6 February 1993 (age 31) Right-handed Right arm medium
28 Jake Ball* ‡  England (1991-03-14) 14 March 1991 (age 33) Right-handed Right arm fast-medium
61 Ish Sodhi ‡  New Zealand (1989-10-31) 31 October 1989 (age 34) Right-handed Right arm leg break Overseas player (T20 only)

Notable former players

Further information: List of Nottinghamshire CCC players

Players with most first-class appearances

Club captains

A full list of captains of the club from its formation to the present day:[8]

Notes

  1. ^ An unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed.
  2. ^ Formerly known as the Gillette Cup (1963–1980), NatWest Trophy (1981–2000) and C&G Trophy (2001–2006).
  3. ^ Formerly known as the Sunday League (1969–1998).

References

  1. ^ ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
  2. ^ ACS (1982). A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles. Nottingham: ACS.
  3. ^ Birley, p. 145.
  4. ^ "List A events played by Nottinghamshire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Twenty20 events played by Nottinghamshire". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  6. ^ Cricket grounds in Nottinghamshire. Retrieved on 18 March 2010.
  7. ^ J. Pycroft The Cricket Field: Or the History and Science of the Game of Cricket (1868), p.44
  8. ^ Nottinghamshire Club Captains. Retrieved on 6 February 2011.

Further reading

External links

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