Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
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Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club are a first-class cricket team who are based in the city of Nottingham in England. They play at the attractive Trent Bridge ground which is also a venue for Test cricket matches.
Beloved of Neville Cardus, Trent Bridge has played host to some of the most famous names of English Cricket. Early professional batting greats such as Shaw and Shrewsbury enabled Nottinghamshire to at least compete with Yorkshire at their peak and 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. 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 Clive Rice and boyish England batting star Derek Randall led their team to the county championship. Chris Broad and Tim Robinson continued the club's long tradition of batting excellence into the England team but the club has since struggled to scale those heights of achievement again.
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 with Stephen Fleming captaining the team to victory.
Notable former players
- Ted Alletson (Mediocre Blocker turned World Record Biffer)
- Sir Richard Hadlee (New Zealand all-rounder)
- Derek Randall (Lovable England batsman and star fielder)
- Clive Rice (South African master-tactician)
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