629 games, 710 innings, 2937 runs and 713 wickets… It’s been quite the career for Leicester born Samit Patel, a Nottinghamshire cricketing all-rounder of the highest quality. After 22 years at Trent Bridge, the 38-year-old will depart the club, not retire though, as he looks like heading to either Derbyshire or his birth county Leicestershire…
There’s a big couple of weeks incoming for Cuckney Cricket Club, one which includes a trip to the home of cricket, Lords, and that could see them walk away not only as National champions, but also with a bulging trophy cabinet. Two more league wins (and a slip from Kimberley Institute CC) will see them…
Trent Rockets men, champions of the last season’s Hundred competition, are currently sitting in the middle of the points table with a win, a loss and a no-result game. They have accrued 3 points from as many games, with the only victory coming in the season opener last week. In their first game of the…
Into the deep end, the business end of the season in the Owzat-Cricket Nottinghamshire Premier League, and it’s still tight at the top of their Premier Division, just eight points splitting the top three sides of Kimberley Institute CC, Cuckney CC, and defending champions, Cavaliers & Carrington CC. The new top two both collected victories…
On Saturday 29th July 2023, Stuart Broad announced his retirement from cricket, at stumps, on day three of the fifth Ashes test, partway through a ninth wicket stand with his old side-kick and mate James Anderson still besides him at the crease, midst a vital match at the Oval, one which England felt they could…
Looking over your shoulder in the County Championship adds nervousness and tension to games especially when you are playing one of those teams below you in the table. Notts thankfully now have a cushion on Kent in one of two relegation places after a 321 run win at Trent Bridge but it didn’t always look…
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club have signed young Worcestershire batter Jack Haynes on a three year deal from the start of the 2024 season. The 22-year-old has a first class average of 34.91 with an even better List A ave at 42.63 and T20 batting figures at 23.06. Worcester born Haynes, son of former professional cricketer…
Nat Sciver-Brunt and Lewis Gregory have been named as the captains of Trent Rockets’ women’s and men’s sides respectively, with The Hundred now just two weeks away. Sciver-Brunt, who has previously captained both England and Trent Rockets, is seeking to guide her side to the final of the competition having finished third in last year’s…
Notts Outlaws failed to reach finals day in the Vitality Blast after losing a dramatic match on Friday night at Somerset who themselves progress to the last four. Going into the game, the 2017 and 2020 winners were second favourites in Taunton, their hosts having headed the South Group with twelve wins from fourteen, Notts…
On a day where England impressively bowled Australia out in the third Ashes test at Headingly (with some thanks to our very own Stuart Broad), before losing the early wicket of Nottinghamshire opener Ben Duckett and falling overnight to 68/3, still 195 runs behind, there was brighter news at Trent Bridge as another England international…
Notts Outlaws have been drawn against Somerset in the knock out stages of the Vitality Blast after finishing fourth in the North section group following a win over Leicestershire Foxes on Sunday. After being beaten by Birmingham Bears in their penultimate group game on Friday night, despite an incredible four wicket first over from Pakistani…
The Owzat Nottinghamshire Premier League Premier currently has a two-way battle between Kimberley Institute CC, and defending champions, Cavaliers & Carrington CC, however, an eye does need to be cast over third place Cuckney CC, and their opening batsman, Nicholas Keast, more if his last two outings are anything to go by. Having racked up…
After defeat at Worcester on Friday night, Nottinghamshire Outlaws bounced back with two victories, on Saturday night against Birmingham Bears at Edgbaston before a win in the sun against Lancashire on Sunday at Trent Bridge. On Friday despite home advantage, Notts were beaten by the Vitality Blast North Group leaders Worcestershire who emulated their ‘Rapids’…
Notts Outlaws 174/4-182/6 Yorkshire Vikings (T20 Blast North Group) 30.05.23 It’s two wins and two defeats from the first four games of the T20 Blast season for Nottinghamshire who couldn’t follow up a win at Durham on Bank Holiday Monday as they were beaten by eight runs against Yorkshire Vikings at Trent Bridge on Tuesday…
The Owzat Nottinghamshire Premier League is very much up-and-running, with sides having played half-a-dozen matches thus far in the Premier League, Cavaliers and Carrington CC (36pts) the early pace-setters with four wins from their opening outings. Cuckney CC are level with Cavaliers (36 pts), with Kimberley Institute CC (34pts) just two behind the early pace-setters;…
Notts Outlaws 182/6-178/6 Derbyshire Falcons (T20 Blast North Group) 26.05.23 What more could you ask for? A scorching Friday night, a packed Trent Bridge, a win for Nottinghamshire against their East Midlands rivals, a perfect start to the Vitality Blast campaign for the Outlaws. It was new overseas signing Shaheen Afridi who had the pleasure…
The Blaze 209/9-23/0 Western Storm (Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy) 10.05.23 *Match abandoned A day that began with sunshine, ended in rain and abandonment, at least preserves the unbeaten start to the season for Nottinghamshire’s newest franchise, the East Midlands establishment now known as ‘the Blaze’ are sitting pretty at the top of the Rachael Heyhoe…
It’s been a stop, start, stumbling season so far and we’ve not even hit the heights of summer yet. Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club have returned to the top tier of domestic red ball action after winning the second division of the county championship last season but it’s not all gone to plan three and a…
Newcomers to the Owzat-Cricket Nottinghamshire Premier League Division Two, Notts Unity Casuals CC have undergone some drastic changes in recent years. They’ve been changes for the better, both on, and off the field of play – however, the more things change, the more things really do stay the same, with several of the ‘old guard’…
The South Nottinghamshire Cricket League, home to fourteen divisions (including a development), has many stories, many tales, and many clubs within – one of which emanates from Lambley Village. Last season, Lambley Village CC were in the ninth of those thirteen, Division J; eighteen matches later, and fifteen wins, saw them edge that of Midlands…
