Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club | |
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One-day name | Notts outlaws |
founded | 1841 |
Home stadium | Trent Bridge |
capacity | 17,000 |
Championship wins | 6th |
One Day Cup victories | FP Trophy : 1 National League : 1 B&H Cup : 1 ECB 40 : 1 RL Cup : 1 |
T20 Cup victories | 1 |
website | http://www.trentbridge.co.uk |
As of September 29, 2017 |
The Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club represents the traditional county of Nottinghamshire in the national championships in English cricket .
history
The beginnings
The base for cricket in Nottinghamshire is the Nottingham Cricket Club. This first played a game against Sheffield in 1771. In the 1830s, the Nottingham County Cricket Club was formed from regular gatherings of players in a pub . The first first-class match was played against Sussex in 1835 . The club was finally founded in its current form in 1841. In the first few years they dominated the unofficial championship, the champions of which were still determined by the press at the time. Between 1852 and 1890, they were determined to be sole or shared champions a total of 18 times. A key player at the time was George Parr , who also led the first English team to North America. The first official County Championship was the team in 1907 win. Between the wars she delivered good results, was second in the championship several times and was finally able to secure their win in 1929 .
After the Second World War
After World War II , the club started off weakly and was mostly placed at the end of the County Championship. Things only picked up again in the late 1970s, when New Zealander Richard Hadlee and South African Clive Rice were signed. In 1981 the County Championship was won. In the succession you could regularly place better and in 1987 the most successful season was finally achieved. That year the team won the NatWest Trophy in addition to the County Championship . However, things went downhill for the team after that. You could win the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1989 and the Sunday League in 1991 , but the performance in the County Championship was not satisfactory.
In the new millennium
With the division of the County Championship, the team was initially located in the Second Division, rose in 2002 , but from again in the following season . In 2004 the second division was won. After the associated promotion, the championship could even be won in the 2005 season . However, the success did not last long and in the following season the team rose again to the second division. However, Nottinghamshire stayed there only one season and then established itself permanently in the First Division. After second places in 2008 and 2009 , the championship was won again in 2010 . In 2013, winning the Yorkshire Bank 40 again won a one-day competition. In 2016 , he was relegated from the first division of the County Championship. In 2017, Nottinghamshire managed to win both the One-Day Cup and the Twenty20 Cup for the first time. They also managed to move up to the first division of the County Championship this season .
Stadion
The club's home ground is Trent Bridge in Nottingham .
successes
County cricket
Winning the County Championship (6): 1907 , 1929 , 1981 , 1987 , 2005 , 2010
Second division win (1): 2004
One-day cricket
Gilette / NatWest / C & G Trophy / FP Trophy (1963-2009) (1): 1987
Sunday / National / Pro40 League (1988-2009) (1): 1991
Benson & Hedges Cup (1972-2002) (1): 1989
ECB 40 / Clydesdale Bank / Yorkshire Bank 40 (2010-2013) (1): 2013
Royal London One-Day Cup (2014-present) (1): 2017
Twenty20
Twenty20 Cup / Friends Life t20 / NatWest t20 Blast (0): 2017
statistics
Runs
Most of the first-class cricket runs were scored by the following players:
player | Playing times | Runs |
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George Gunn | 1902-1932 | 31,592 |
Robert Robinson | 1978-1999 | 24,439 |
Joseph Hardstaff | 1930-1955 | 24,249 |
William Keeton | 1926-1952 | 23,744 |
John Gunn | 1896-1925 | 23,194 |
Wickets
Most of the wickets in first-class cricket were scored by the following players:
player | Playing times | Runs |
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Thomas Wass | 1896-1920 | 1,653 |
William Voce | 1927-1952 | 1.312 |
William Attewell | 1881-1899 | 1,303 |
Samuel Staples | 1920-1934 | 1,268 |
Harold Larwood | 1924-1938 | 1,247 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Sam Collins: A brief history of Nottinghamshire ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
- ^ G Parr's XI in North America 1859 ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
- ↑ Most runs for Nottinghamshire ( English ) Cricket archives. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
- ↑ Most wickets for Nottinghamshire ( English ) Cricket archives. Retrieved March 3, 2015.