England vs India
12 July 2014
An alleged physical altercation between Ravindra Jadeja and James Anderson in the players' tunnel at Trent Bridge led to charges, counter-charges, and a messy ICC hearing that satisfied nobody.
England vs India
13 July 2014
James Anderson allegedly pushed Ravindra Jadeja in the players' corridor at Trent Bridge during the 2014 Test series, leading to ICC charges and hearings.
England vs Australia
2013-07-10
Stuart Broad edged massively to slip but stood his ground and was given not out by the umpire, brazenly refusing to walk in one of the Ashes' most shameless moments.
England vs Australia
4 August 2005
Ricky Ponting was furious after being run out by England substitute fielder Gary Pratt during the 2005 Ashes, accusing England of abusing the substitute fielder rule to gain an unfair tactical advantage.
England vs Australia
2005-08-25
Unknown substitute fielder Gary Pratt ran out Ricky Ponting with a direct hit, triggering an epic tantrum from Ponting who ranted at the England dressing room as he walked off.
South Africa vs Various
1965-07-06
Graeme Pollock of Eastern Province was one of the two or three best batsmen in the world in the 1960s — a left-hander of such natural genius that Don Bradman rated him alongside Sobers as the finest post-war player he had seen. In 23 Tests he scored 2,256 runs at 60.97. South Africa's isolation ended his career at 26, depriving him of at least a decade of Test cricket.
England vs Australia
1964-06-04
Geoffrey Boycott of Yorkshire made his Test debut at Trent Bridge in June 1964, opening the batting against Neil Hawke and Graham McKenzie and scoring 48 — cautious, correct and utterly determined. It was the beginning of a Test career of 108 matches and 8,114 runs, the most polarising batting career England has produced.
England v Australia
1938-06-11
Following on 247 behind at Trent Bridge in June 1938, Stan McCabe played what Don Bradman would call the greatest innings he ever saw. With wickets falling at the other end, McCabe scored 232 in 235 minutes, the last 72 of those runs in just 28 minutes; he reached his double-hundred from 220 balls. Bradman called his team mates onto the pavilion balcony with the words, 'Come and look at this, you'll never see the like of it again.'
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.
England v Australia
1899-06-01
On 1-3 June 1899, in the first Test ever played at Trent Bridge, the 50-year-old W.G. Grace captained England against Australia. He made 28 and 1, dropped catches at point, and was barracked by the Nottingham crowd over his fielding. Three days after the match he resigned the captaincy and his place. The same Test marked the debuts of Wilfred Rhodes (21) and Victor Trumper (21) — Rhodes would play with Bradman in his last Test; Trumper would become Australia's first cricketing icon.
England v Australia
1899-06-01
On 1 June 1899, the 21-year-old Yorkshire left-arm spinner Wilfred Rhodes opened England's bowling against Australia at Trent Bridge and took 4 for 58 in 35.1 overs on debut. The same Test marked W.G. Grace's last appearance. Rhodes would play another 57 Tests across the next 31 years, finishing with the longest Test career in cricket history — the only man to play with both W.G. Grace and Don Bradman.
All-England Eleven vs United All-England Eleven; vs touring sides
1870-09-01
George Parr — captain of Nottinghamshire from 1856 to 1870 and of the All-England Eleven over the same period — was the dominant figure in English professional cricket between William Clarke's death and W.G. Grace's emergence. Tour captain in North America in 1859 and Australasia in 1863-64, he scored 6,626 first-class runs at 20.20 in conditions that were brutal to batters, and ran the AEE through the great rivalry years against the United All-England Eleven from 1857 to 1866.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Nottingham; Trent Bridge
1838-05-30
William Clarke, the Nottingham slow-bowling all-rounder, opened the Trent Bridge cricket ground in late May 1838 on land adjoining the Trent Bridge Inn — the public house he had acquired through marriage in 1837. The ground would become the home of Nottinghamshire cricket and, in time, one of the senior Test venues in England.
Nottingham vs Sheffield
1838-06-04
On 4-5 June 1838 William Clarke — proprietor of the newly-opened Trent Bridge ground — played his first major match for Nottingham against Sheffield at the new venue. He took 6 for 41 with his slow underarm bowling and scored 23 with the bat. The performance announced Clarke as a major-match player and confirmed Trent Bridge as a serious cricket venue from its opening.
Nottinghamshire
1838-05-26
William Clarke laid out a cricket ground on land behind the Trent Bridge Inn at Nottingham in 1838, the year after his marriage to the inn's proprietor, the widow Mary Chapman. The ground hosted its first major match in May 1838 and grew through the nineteenth century into one of cricket's great Test venues — and the only major Test ground in the world founded by a single individual on commercial initiative.