Sixteen-year-old Nottinghamshire spinner Farhan Ahmed became the youngest ever player to take a County Championship five-for and the youngest to take a 10-wicket haul in first class cricket in England. Farhan, brother of England and Leicestershire all-rounder Rehan, comes from a family of locally born cricketers and it was his performance, largely, that abled Notts…
Basford United hit Sporting Khalsa for a big six in the First Qualifying Round of the FA Cup on Saturday. The Ambers beating the West Midlanders from Willenhall 6-1 at Greenwich Avenue, a stunning display of attacking football from the Northern Premier League side. Jordan Hallam got Martin Carruthers men underway with an 18th minute…
Nottinghamshire 293 & 80 v Essex 253 & 374/9 dec (County Championship Division One) 05.04.24-08.04.24 *four day match Essex win by 254 runs For many a fan of the red ball game, the start of the County Championship summer season brings joy and optimism of those who’ve missed their cricket fix since September the previous…
Ilkeston Town 4-1 Basford United (Northern Premier League) 20.01.24 Less than six miles separates Basford with Derbyshire neighbours Ilkeston, but heavy defeat in the Pitching In Premier Division has former Robin, James Jepson the United Manager and his side now a massive fourteen points below their ‘nearest’ league rivals locally, hovering dangerously above the drop…
It seems we’ve forgotten our roots at Nottingham Sport, in truth we’re struggling for journalists as nobody wants to work for free… And that’s why some of our local sides, unfortunately like Nottingham Wildcats, have been ‘pushed to the side’ when it comes to coverage. As Editor, I feel for those ‘full time’ media outlets…
When Steve Cooper walked through the City Ground doors on 21 September 2021, little did anyone know, expect, or dare to even dream the position the club would be in just twelve months later, let alone where it sits today. In short of a previous Manager once walking on water, this was as big a…
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…
Nottingham Forest are starting to get a bit of a reputation for deadline day dealings after they secured seven September 1st signings in addition to the eleven they had already earlier captured in the summer window. The Reds replacing 33 outgoings in another busy shopping spree since securing their Premier League status last season and…
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…
Andy Murray beat Arthur Cazaux of France to win the Rothesay Nottingham Open men’s singles title and the two-time Wimbledon champion had the perfect father’s day present when post-game, he realised his wife and children were in the audience to watch him win 6-4, 6-4, as he prepares the necessary steps ahead of his return…
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…
The Blaze 212-153 Central Sparks (Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy) 22.04.23 *The Blaze won by 59 runs There’s a new team in Notts… The Cricketing franchise that was Loughborough Lightning has all changed for the 2023 season and The Blaze have been created to participate in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy as the East Midlands newest…
If losing a huge relegation six pointer isn’t bad enough, losing a Manager and the very Head Coach who got you into the Premier League after 23 long years of failed attempts, would spell a disastrous double blow but thankfully that concern was quashed earlier today, by an astute owner in Evangelos Marinakis who understands…
I’m extremely excited by this one. Ever since the news in the summer came through that Gustavo Scarpa was joining Nottingham Forest after he finished his season in Brazil, the Palmeiras playmaker has very much been on my radar, and you can’t help but feel impressed. 31 starts seven goals and twelve assists for the…
It was always going to be the answer to an obvious question asked, ‘let’s just see where we are by the time the World Cup starts’… The English Premier League season split into two, for the first time ‘deliberately’ since it began in 1992, Nottingham Forest returning to the top tier for the first time…
After the jubilation of beating Liverpool at the City Ground last week came the almost inevitable underwhelming deflation of losing at the Emirates on Sunday, not the loss in particular, that was significant against top of the table Arsenal, but the manner of which Steve Cooper’s side performed, the most disappointing aspect to take away…
One of the biggest reasons why we love Steve Cooper? Is that he understands people… He understands ‘us’ as Nottingham Forest fans, and he understands ‘our’ needs and demands (even when sometimes unrealistic). Now, we don’t expect Harlem Globetrotters all of the time, we certainly want to play the right way, but first and foremost…
Yesterday I found myself as a late substitute, asked to be part of an all paid for table at Nottingham Racecourse for Construction Day, and an event which was made for mingling with a number of local companies’ bosses swapping business cards with one another. As Editor of Nottingham Sport, I felt pretty useless in…
