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Garry Sobers Hits Six Sixes off Malcolm Nash — Swansea, 31 August 1968

Glamorgan vs Nottinghamshire

1968-08-31

On 31 August 1968 at the St Helen's ground in Swansea, Nottinghamshire captain Garfield Sobers became the first batsman to strike six sixes in a single first-class over. The bowler was Glamorgan's Malcolm Nash, experimenting with slow left-arm round the wicket as Notts pushed for a declaration. A BBC Wales camera crew, on site for training, captured the fifth and sixth sixes — and Wilf Wooller's commentary — for posterity.

#garry sobers#malcolm nash#swansea
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Hedley Verity's 10 for 10 — The Best Figures in First-Class History, 1932

Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire

1932-07-12

On 12 July 1932, slow left-armer Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs at Headingley, dismissing a strong Nottinghamshire side for 67 in their second innings. The figures — 19.4 overs, 16 maidens, 10 for 10 — remain the best bowling analysis in the history of first-class cricket. Inside the spell were seven wickets in 15 deliveries, and a hat-trick. Yorkshire won by 10 wickets.

#hedley-verity#yorkshire#nottinghamshire
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Harold Larwood Emerges — Nottinghamshire's Pace Spearhead, 1927-28

Nottinghamshire and English county cricket

1928-09-30

Across the 1927 and 1928 county seasons the 23-year-old Notts miner Harold Larwood took 100, 138 and then 138 wickets — establishing himself as the fastest bowler in England and securing his place in the 1928-29 Ashes side that would, four years later, take its leg-theory plans to Australia.

#harold-larwood#nottinghamshire#england
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Charlie Macartney's 345 in Under Four Hours — Trent Bridge, 1921

Australians v Nottinghamshire

1921-06-25

Between lunch on a June Saturday and tea on the Monday after, Charlie Macartney made 345 against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge — for almost two decades a world record for runs scored by a batsman in a single day, and an innings that announced the man Sydneysiders called the 'Governor-General' to the wider cricket world.

#charlie-macartney#australia#1921
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Arthur Shrewsbury's Suicide — 'Give Me Arthur' Shoots Himself in Gedling, May 1903

Nottinghamshire, England

1903-05-19

Arthur Shrewsbury, the Nottinghamshire opener whom W.G. Grace called the only contemporary he would 'rather have in my side', shot himself at his sister's home in Gedling on 19 May 1903 aged 47. Convinced he was incurably ill — though doctors had repeatedly told him otherwise — he had bought a revolver in mid-April and shot himself first in the chest, then in the head when the first wound proved non-fatal. The Notts side at Hove abandoned their match the next morning.

#arthur-shrewsbury#1903#suicide
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'Give Me Arthur' — Shrewsbury, the Best Pro of the 1880s

England (Notts)

1886-08-10

When asked who he would prefer as his batting partner, WG Grace replied simply, 'Give me Arthur' — meaning Arthur Shrewsbury of Nottinghamshire. Shrewsbury was the best professional batsman of the 1880s, the leader of the 1881 Notts strike, the co-organiser of three private tours of Australia, and Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the inaugural 1890 list (the second list, for batsmen). He killed himself in 1903 aged 47, after years of paranoid hypochondria.

#arthur-shrewsbury#1880s#give-me-arthur
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The Nottinghamshire Players' Strike of 1881

Nottinghamshire CCC v Captain Henry Holden (committee)

1881-06-01

In the summer of 1881 seven of Nottinghamshire's leading professionals — Alfred Shaw, Arthur Shrewsbury, Fred Morley, John Selby, William Barnes, Wilfrid Flowers and (briefly) Mordecai Sherwin — refused to play for the county after a dispute with the secretary, Captain Henry Holden, over fixtures, pay and the right to a guaranteed benefit. The strike crippled Notts' season, was the first major industrial action in English cricket, and laid the groundwork for the formal employment contracts that professionals would gradually win across the next two decades.

#nottinghamshire#strike#professionals
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Alfred Shaw Bowls the First Ball in Test Cricket — Melbourne, 15 March 1877

Australia vs England

1877-03-15

Alfred Shaw of Nottinghamshire, the most accurate slow-medium bowler in England, delivered the first ball in Test cricket — to Charles Bannerman at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the morning of 15 March 1877. Bannerman took a single off the fourth ball of the over to register the first Test run.

#alfred-shaw#first-ball#melbourne
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George Parr's Final Season — The Lion of the North Retires, 1869

Nottinghamshire and All-England representative sides

1869-08-01

George Parr, the Lion of the North, played his final first-class season in 1869 and retired from the game he had dominated as England's premier batsman for fifteen years. His career spanned the transition from roundarm to overarm bowling, from county cricket without a championship to county cricket in its organised modern form, and from the All-England Eleven touring era to the beginnings of Test cricket. His farewell was the end of an epoch.

#overarm-era#early-county-cricket#1860s
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Nottinghamshire — Powerhouse of 1860s County Cricket

Nottinghamshire vs other first-class counties

1865-09-01

Nottinghamshire was the strongest county side of the 1860s. Captained throughout the decade by George Parr from his home village of Radcliffe-on-Trent, the county won the unofficial championship in 1865, 1867 and 1869, fielded the leading English fast bowler of the era in John Jackson, the leading slow left-armer in George Wootton, and the rising star Alfred Shaw, who would later bowl the first ball in Test cricket. Nottinghamshire's players dominated the All-England Eleven and provided the bulk of touring sides to America and Australia.

#nottinghamshire#george-parr#richard-daft
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Richard Daft — Nottinghamshire's Prince and England's Premier Batsman, 1860s

Nottinghamshire and All-England representative sides

1864-07-01

Richard Daft of Nottinghamshire was, in the mid-1860s, the successor to George Parr as the country's leading professional batsman — elegant, technically correct, and prolific on the rough wickets of the early county cricket era. His Trent Bridge centuries and his representative appearances for the Players against the Gentlemen defined the standard of professional batsmanship in the decade before W.G. Grace's arrival reset all comparisons.

#overarm-era#early-county-cricket#1860s
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Alfred Shaw's Emergence — Notts Debut and the Slow-Medium Revolution, 1864-66

Nottinghamshire vs Kent

1864-06-13

On 13 June 1864 a 21-year-old slow-medium bowler from Burton Joyce in Nottinghamshire made his first-class debut at Trent Bridge against Kent. Alfred Shaw — later 'the Emperor of Bowlers', the man who would bowl the first ball in Test cricket — had spent two seasons as a club professional at Grantham and had taken seven Notts wickets for the Colts in 1863. The 1864-66 emergence at Trent Bridge began a career that, more than any other, established the slow-medium length-and-line bowling that defined the next century of cricket.

#alfred-shaw#nottinghamshire#1864
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Trent Bridge and the County Ground Revolution — Victorian Cricket's Infrastructure Built, 1860s

Nottinghamshire CCC and county cricket administration

1863-04-01

Trent Bridge underwent significant improvements through the 1860s as Nottinghamshire county cricket consolidated its position as one of England's strongest counties. The ground that William Clarke had developed from the 1830s was enlarged, a proper pavilion constructed, and the playing surface improved to a standard that attracted major representative fixtures. The Trent Bridge of the 1860s was the prototype of the modern county ground.

#overarm-era#early-county-cricket#1860s
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Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club — Formally Constituted, 1859

Nottinghamshire Cricket Club

1859-01-01

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club was formally constituted in 1859, giving official structure to the county cricket that had been played under the Nottinghamshire name since the 1820s. The formal club provided a stable foundation for the professional staff — Parr, Guy, Jackson and the emerging Daft — and for the Trent Bridge ground that William Clarke had leased and developed. Nottinghamshire would be one of the two dominant counties of the 1860s and 1870s.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s
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George Parr's 130 — Only First-Class Century, Notts v Surrey, the Oval, July 1859

Nottinghamshire vs Surrey

1859-07-14

On 14 July 1859 the Nottinghamshire captain George Parr — the 'Lion of the North' and Clarke's heir as captain of the All-England Eleven — scored 130 against Surrey at the Oval. It was the only first-class century of his career, and a public confirmation that he was now the leading professional batsman in England, the man widely held to be the best cricketer in the world in his prime.

#george-parr#century#oval
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The Parr Tree at Trent Bridge — The Elm Hit for Six for 28 Summers

Nottinghamshire and All-England Eleven home matches

1859-08-01

An elm tree standing inside the boundary at Trent Bridge on the Bridgford Road side became the most famous tree in cricket because George Parr — the dominant Nottinghamshire batsman from the late 1840s to the late 1860s — habitually hit it for six with his trademark leg-side sweep. Parr's Tree stood for more than a century until it was felled by gales at New Year 1976; a branch had earlier been laid on Parr's coffin in 1891.

#parr-tree#trent-bridge#george-parr
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Richard Daft — Nottinghamshire's Next Great Batsman Makes His First-Class Debut, 1858

Nottinghamshire and All-England elevens

1858-06-01

Richard Daft of Nottingham made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire in 1858, at twenty years of age, and immediately announced himself as the finest young batsman in the north of England. An elegant right-hander with a perfect upright technique and an exceptional off-drive, Daft would by the mid-1860s succeed Parr as Nottinghamshire's leading professional and England's most admired batsman after Grace.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s
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Surrey vs Nottinghamshire — The Premier County Rivalry of the Late 1850s

Surrey vs Nottinghamshire

1858-07-01

By the late 1850s the fixture between Surrey and Nottinghamshire had become the most important county match in England, pitting the dominant southern side against the strongest county in the Midlands. Surrey, with Caffyn and Lockyer, faced Nottinghamshire with Parr and Guy; the matches at Trent Bridge and The Oval were the best-attended county cricket of the decade and the closest thing to a championship decider.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s
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John 'Foghorn' Jackson — 8 for 20 for North v South, 1857

North vs South

1857-07-13

The Nottinghamshire fast bowler John Jackson, nicknamed 'Foghorn' for the loud nose-blow with which he marked every wicket, took eight for 20 for the North against the South in 1857 and confirmed his reputation as the most prominent fast bowler in England. Jackson would become the dominant pace bowler of the late 1850s and early 1860s and the foremost roundarm 'demon' before overarm was legalised.

#john-jackson#foghorn#north-v-south
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William Clarke's Death — End of the Founder of the All-England Eleven, 25 August 1856

n/a

1856-08-25

William Clarke, the Nottinghamshire slow underarm bowler who founded the All-England Eleven in 1846 and turned professional touring cricket into a paying business, died on 25 August 1856 at Priory Lodge, Wandsworth Road, London, of paraplegia. He was 57. His death ended the four-year boycott of the United All-England Eleven and opened the way for the AEE v UAEE annual match that would shape the next decade of English cricket.

#william-clarke#all-england-eleven#death
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George Parr — 'The Lion of the North' Established as England's Premier Batsman, 1855

Nottinghamshire and All-England elevens

1855-07-01

With Fuller Pilch's retirement in 1854, George Parr of Nottinghamshire assumed the mantle of England's premier batsman. Known as 'the Lion of the North' for his ferocious pull shot to leg — the celebrated stroke that hit the ball into the elm tree at Trent Bridge that would bear his name — Parr was the acknowledged best in the country from 1855 until the emergence of W.G. Grace in the late 1860s.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s
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John 'Foghorn' Jackson — The Fastest Bowler in England Through the 1850s

Nottinghamshire and All-England Eleven

1855-07-01

John 'Foghorn' Jackson of Bungay was through the 1850s and early 1860s the fastest roundarm bowler in England, a right-arm quick of exceptional pace and hostility. Playing principally for Nottinghamshire and the All-England Eleven, he took 796 first-class wickets at 10.52, a remarkable average for the era, and was feared by even the best professional batsmen for the speed he could generate on the rough, unprepared pitches of the period.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s
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Joseph Guy — Nottinghamshire's Veteran Batsman in His Final Years, 1853

Nottinghamshire and All-England Eleven

1853-07-01

Joseph Guy of Nottingham, one of the leading professional batsmen of the 1840s, continued to play for Nottinghamshire through the early 1850s, providing a bridge between the Pilch era and the Parr generation. A technically correct batsman with a strong forward game, Guy scored over 5,000 first-class runs and was regarded by Pilch himself as one of the finest players of the forward stroke in the country.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s
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George Parr Emerges — Notts Run-Maker and AEE Heir Apparent, 1846-1849

Nottinghamshire / All-England Eleven

1848-07-01

George Parr of Nottinghamshire, who would later succeed William Clarke as captain of the All-England Eleven and lead the second English tour of Australia, emerged in the late 1840s as the most powerful leg-side hitter in English cricket. By 1849, aged 23, he was the leading batsman in the AEE and the natural heir to Clarke's professional empire.

#george-parr#nottinghamshire#1848
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William Clarke Founds the All-England Eleven — 1846

n/a

1846-08-31

In late August 1846 the Nottinghamshire lob-bowler William Clarke, then a 48-year-old professional working as the practice bowler at Lord's, gathered eleven of England's leading professional cricketers and founded the All-England Eleven. The travelling side that resulted would, over the next two decades, take first-class standard cricket to every corner of the British Isles and create the commercial template for professional touring.

#william-clarke#all-england-eleven#aee
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Joseph Guy of Nottinghamshire — Stylist of the 1840s

Nottinghamshire / All-England Eleven

1846-08-01

Joseph Guy of Nottinghamshire — a graceful right-handed batsman whose style Lord Frederick Beauclerk likened to 'cricket of the most gentlemanly kind' — was a charter member of William Clarke's All-England Eleven in 1846 and one of the leading professional batsmen of the 1840s.

#joseph-guy#nottinghamshire#1846
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George Parr's Early Career — The Lion of the North Emerges, 1845–1847

Nottinghamshire and All-England elevens

1845-07-01

George Parr of Nottinghamshire made his first-class debut in 1844 and by 1845–47 had established himself as the most promising young batsman in England, succeeding Fuller Pilch as the country's leading run-scorer in the 1850s. In the mid-1840s his leg-side hitting — which would eventually send a famous elm branch into orbit at Trent Bridge — was already drawing comment from critics who regarded him as the game's next great figure.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s
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Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club Constituted — William Clarke's Role, 1841

Nottinghamshire cricket establishment

1841-03-01

The Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club was formally constituted in 1841, initially under the management of William Clarke who had developed Trent Bridge as a first-class ground after marrying its landlady in 1838. Clarke's entrepreneurial energy turned Nottingham's cricket infrastructure into one of the strongest in the provinces, though his founding of the All-England Eleven five years later would divert his attention from county to national cricket.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s