Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
One-day Name:	Nottinghamshire Outlaws
Coach:	Mick Newell
Captain:	Chris Read
Overseas Player(s):	Adam Voges
Founded:	1841
Home Ground:	Trent Bridge
Capacity:	17,000
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. Their kit colours are dark green with gold trim and the shirt sponsors are Abacus Sports Lighting.

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, Shireoaks, Welbeck Abbey, Cleethorpes and Newark.

Contents 1 Honours 1.1 Second XI honours 2 Records 3 Earliest cricket 4 Origin of club 5 History 6 2009 squad 7 Notable former players 8 Players with most first-class appearances 9 Club captains 10 Nottinghamshire facts and feats 11 References 12 External sources 13 Further reading

[edit] Honours

• Champion County (10) - 1853, 1862, 1865, 1871, 1872, 1875, 1880, 1884, 1885, 1886; shared (9) - 1852, 1868, 1869, 1873, 1878, 1879, 1882, 1883, 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 1841 (the exact date has been lost).

[edit] 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 Shaw'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 week. 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 whilst 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, they came close to winning both the County Championship and NatWest Pro40 outright, losing to Hampshire on the final day and Sussex in the final ball respectively, and had progressed by 2009 to being the most consistent county in the Championship and leading the division tables.^[1]

[edit] 2009 squad

Name	Nat	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
Ali Brown		RHB	OB	Former England ODI player
Alexander Hales		RHB	RM
Will Jefferson		RHB	RMF
Akhil Patel		RHB	OB
Adam Voges		RHB	SLC	Australia ODI player, Overseas player
Mark Wagh		RHB	OB
Matthew Wood		RHB	OB
All-rounders
Andre Adams		RHB	RFM	Former New Zealand Test and ODI player, Kolpak player
Mark Ealham		RHB	RMF	Former England Test and ODI player
Paul Franks		LHB	RFM	Former England ODI player
Samit Patel		RHB	SLA	England ODI player
Kevin O'Brien		RHB	RMF	Ireland ODI player
Graeme Swann		RHB	OB	England Test and ODI player, England central contract
Stuart Broad		LHB	RFM	England Test and ODI player, England central contract
Batsmen-Wicket-keeper
Bilal Shafayat		RHB	RMF	back-up wicketkeeper
Wicket-keeper
Chris Read		RHB	OB	Captain, Former England Test and ODI player
Bowlers
Jason Brown		RHB	OB
Andrew Carter		RHB	RM
Luke Fletcher		RHB	RMF
Mark Footitt		RHB	LFM
Darren Pattinson		RHB	RFM	Former England Test player
Charlie Shreck		RHB	RFM
Ryan Sidebottom		LHB	LFM	England Test and ODI player, England central contract

[edit] Notable former players

Lists of "famous" or "notable" sports persons with no clear inclusion or exclusion criteria should be avoided. Such lists should be removed or replaced with verifiable lists of players recognized by the club, league, or another reliable source and be properly referenced.

• 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)
• Bill Voce (formed an outstanding fast bowling partnership with Larwood for county and country)
• Joe Hardstaff junior (batsman who played for England with some success)
• Reg Simpson (prolific batsman who played for England)
• 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 and captain)
• Stephen Fleming (New Zealand's longest-serving Test and ODI captain)

[edit] Players with most first-class appearances

• George Gunn
• JR Gunn
• William Gunn
• Joe Hardstaff junior
• Bruce French
• Geoff Millman

[edit] Club captains

Captains of the club have included:

• William Clarke
• George Parr
• Richard Daft
• Alfred Shaw
• Arthur Jones
• Arthur Carr
• Garry Sobers
• Clive Rice (1979-87)
• Tim Robinson (1988-95)
• Paul Johnson (1996-98)
• Jason Gallian (1998-2004)
• Stephen Fleming (2005-2007)
• Chris Read (2008-)

[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] References

[edit] External sources

• Notts CCC homepage
• A history of cricket and cricketers in Nottinghamshire

[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

• Playfair Cricket Annual – various editions
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack – various editions

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