Matches continue to come thick and fast for Nottinghamshire in the Specsavers County Championship Division One. This week they entertain Warwickshire, with the match beginning on Sunday 15 May 2015 at 11am.
After their rain-ruined draw at Lord’s, Notts currently lie in third spot in the table. Warwickshire, who have drawn all four of their opening matches, are one place behind them in fourth.
Head To Head
The two counties have met 133 times in first class cricket, with Nottinghamshire boasting a winning record of 41 successes to the Bears’ 33.
One match was abandoned without a ball being bowled and the other 58 matches have been drawn.
This week sees Notts host their opponents for the 69th time, having won 29 of the previous home matches, most recently last year, when the margin of victory was by more than an innings.
Warwickshire have claimed 11 wins in Nottingham, most recently in 2014 and the draw in 2013 was the 28th time the contest has finished without a positive result.
The 1987 fixture was staged at Worksop, and resulted in an innings victory for Notts but all other home meetings have been at the county headquarters at Trent Bridge.
Last Time
Nottinghamshire were enjoying a bit of a resurgence in form, at the time of last season’s meeting at Trent Bridge. Having won against Sussex and Worcestershire, they made it three consecutive victories with an innings success over Warwickshire.
A second wicket partnership of 257 between Alex Hales and Steven Mullaney was the foundation for Nottinghamshire’s colossal first innings score of 600.
Hales made 189, Mullaney scored 112 and there were also solid contributions from Chris Read (69), Jake Ball (49 not out), Samit Patel (46) and Brett Hutton (37).
Keith Barker’s 71 was the leading knock as Warwickshire fell for 260 in their first innings, with Ball and Hutton grabbing three wickets apiece.
Following-on, the visitors were then turned over for 217 in the final session of the match, with Patel taking four for 23.
In gloomy conditions, with the floodlights burning brightly, play was only allowed to continue because Patel and Mullaney were bowling in tandem. During a spell which saw them take the second new ball, the pair combined to take the last six wickets to fall.
The victory, by an innings and 123 runs, enabled Notts to leapfrog the Bears into third spot in the table.
History
Previous clashes with Warwickshire throw up a host of memories and a cluster of random statistics from classic encounters, both from a bygone era as well as more recent times.
Perhaps surprisingly, given the longevity of the fixture, Warwickshire have never reached 500 at Trent Bridge, with Notts only doing it twice. They scored 514 in the 2005 match and then hit a colossal 600 last year.
In 2005 David Hussey made 232, the first of his three ‘double-tons’ for Nottinghamshire and the highest individual score by a Notts player at home to Warwickshire.
The Bears’ Rohan Kanhai did even better in 1968, scoring 253 out of a stand of 402 for the fourth wicket with Khalid Ibadulla, a first class record at Trent Bridge.
Kanhai, one of the West Indies all-time greats, clearly enjoyed batting in West Bridgford as he also recorded centuries on two other visits with his county – 105 in 1970 and 114 in 1973.
Nottinghamshire’s best bowling at home to the Bears was achieved by Harold Larwood in 1930. The fearsome quickie grabbed seven for 57. Six years ago another Nottinghamshire and England Test bowler did take eight wickets against Warwickshire for the first time but Stuart Broad’s eight for 53 came at Edgbaston.
Current Notts skipper Chris Read has enjoyed the fixture with centuries in both 1999 and in 2009. The first of them was his maiden hundred in first class cricket and his eventual score of 160 remains the highest score ever made by a Nottinghamshire number seven batsman.
Read’s absence in 2006 enabled David Alleyne to make a rare appearance, which he celebrated by hitting a career-high 106, as well as picking up a tally of nine dismissals in the match.
In 2010 Notts won the Trent Bridge match by an innings, inside just two days, taking all 20 Warwickshire wickets on the second day. Notts had made 328, then skittled their visitors for 121 and 152, with Ryan Sidebottom, Andre Adams and Paul Franks sharing all 20 between them.
Played For Them Both
South African Test match leg spinner Imran Tahir made one first class appearance for Nottinghamshire last season, helping in an away win over Worcestershire, with figures of two for 80 and two for 65.
Tahir spent the 2010 season with Warwickshire, making 16 first class, 13 one-day and 17 T20 appearances for the Bears.
Others to have represented both Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire at first class level, include Dilip Doshi, Vasbert Drakes, Eddie Hemmings, Deryck Murray, Anurag Singh, Daniel Vettori and Mark Wagh.
Stats (for all first class fixtures between Notts & Warks)
Highest Team Total:
Notts: 656-3dec (Butts Ground, Coventry, 1928)
Warks: 574-7dec (Edgbaston, 2011)
Highest Individual Score:
Notts: 232* DJ Hussey (Trent Bridge, 2005)
Warks: 253 RB Kanhai (Trent Bridge, 1968)
Best Bowling:
Notts: 8-52 SCJ Broad (Edgbaston, 2010)
Warks: 10-49 WE Hollies (Edgbaston, 1946)
Hat-Tricks
Only one hat-trick has been taken in the series of matches and that came at Trent Bridge on 16 July 1997 when Nottinghamshire’s Paul Franks dismissed Trevor Penney, Dougie Brown and Graeme Welch with successive deliveries. Penney was caught behind, by wicketkeeper Wayne Noon, with Brown and Welch each being clean bowled.
Milestones
Nottinghamshire players approaching significant career milestones in first class cricket are:
Riki Wessels (8921) needs 79 to reach 9000 runs
Brendan Taylor (7486) needs 14 to reach 7500 runs
Michael Lumb (1950) needs 50 to reach 2000 runs at Trent Bridge. Headingley (at 2125) has been his most prolific ground
Chris Read (14256) needs 100 runs to go past Basharat Hassan (14355) into 24th spot on Nottinghamshire’s all-time leading run scorers list
Brett Hutton (49) needs one further wicket to reach 50
Steven Mullaney (49) needs one further wicket to reach 50 for Notts
Samit Patel (99) needs one more catch to reach 100 for Notts
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