THE STORY OF THE SEASON…AND SO MUCH MORE
2026 Cricket Annual Published
Nottinghamshire’s legion of cricket fans can relive the title winning season with the 2026 Cricket Annual, published by the Nottingham Cricket Lovers Society (NCLS).
Across 280 pages, editor Mike Goulder provides not just a detailed review of each County Championship match, complete with scorecards, but also articles reflecting on the unexpected title win by such luminaries as head coach Peter Moores, commentator Dave Bracegirdle and columnist Michael Henderson.
There is statistical analysis of the Championship that sets the tone for a whole raft of stats and records covering Nottinghamshire’s history – particularly appropriate in a year when the 200th Anniversary of First-Class cricket will be celebrated.
Speaking the Club’s AGM, chair Andy Hunt recommended the Annual to members and supporters, “It’s a terrific piece of work”, he said, “not just about the title season but about all of Nottinghamshire cricket.
“Mike Goulder has done a first-class job as editor and I congratulate him and his team”.
The Annual includes pictures of the men’s and women’s squads with room for autographs and more than twenty pages of colour photographs. “I’m particularly delighted to have two local lads (Lyndon James and Liam Patterson-White) on the cover”, said Mike Goulder, “it made the win all the more special to have them in the team”.
Fascinating as the Championship win was, it is far from the only aspect of Nottingham cricket covered in the Annual.
The Notts Outlaws two white-ball campaigns are detailed and the Notts Second XI, The Blaze, Age Group and Women’s teams are included, along with an extensive summary of league cricket played in the county.
The international matches played at Trent Bridge in 2025 – the four-day Test against Zimbabwe, and the Women’s Vitality T20I versus India – are covered in detail; there was a third international scheduled, a men’s T20I also against India, but that was washed out by the weather.
Articles on the Heritage work at Trent Bridge, the meetings and speakers of the NCLS, and a review of some of the latest books to arrive in the Wynne-Thomas Library are also included.
Scattered through the Annual are nuggets of information and statistics that Mike Goulder calls ‘fillers’, but they are much more than that…how revealing that in 2025, Hampshire’s Ben Brown set a new record as the opposing keeper in the highest Notts innings (578-8) not contain a single bye…or that Joe Hardstaff has the highest score (205no v India) of any Notts batter in a Test match for England.
The Nottinghamshire Cricket Annual 2026 is available from the Trent Bridge Shop, via the Club online, from the Ticket Office or at NCLS meetings, and is excellent value at just ten pounds.
February 2026