Nottinghamshire Away at the Isle of Wight

Destination Isle of Wight

Notts travel again to the island in May 2019

Notts have at trip to the Isle of Wight in May 2019 as they play the inaugural first-class fixture at the Newclose Ground, near Newport to face opponents Hampshire in a 4-day championship game. However this is not Notts first trip to the Isle of Wight as in June 1957 they faced Hampshire at the J.Samuel White ground, now the Isle of Wight Community Club ground in Cowes. In a rain hit affair Notts lost by 80 runs with Hampshire legend Derek Shackleton having match figures of 13 for 135  Details of the match are given below. In the Hampshire first innings Roy Marshall and Henry Horton added 123 for the second wicket. Similarly there was a second wicket stand of 122 in the Nottinghamshire first innings between John Clay and Ron Giles as Notts trailed by 27 runs after the first innings. Hampshire then clubbed 167 in 44 overs, setting Notts 195 runs to win but they fell well short as the medium pace of Shackleton was too good for them for the second time in the match.

Hampshire v Nottinghamshire at J Samuel White's Ground, Cowes 22nd, 24th and 25th June 1957

Hampshire won the toss

Hampshire won by 80 runs

Hampshire 286 for 5 dec  (RE Marshall 107, H Horton 114 not out) and 167 for 5 dec (AWH Rayment 80)

Notts 259 all out (RJ Giles 101, JD Clay 59, D Shackleton 7 for 81) and 114 all out (D Shackleton 6 for 54)

Notts team: RT Simpson*,  JD Clay, RJ Giles, FW Stocks, CJ Poole, B Dooland, AK Walker, A Jepson, CS Matthews, G Millman+, K Smales

Hampshire played an annual championship game in Cowes from 1956 and 1962 but the Newclose game will the first championship game on the Isle for 57 years, but first-class cricket has been played in Newport before. In 1938 and 1939 Hampshire had Championship games at the Victoria Recreation Ground in the town against Northants and Middlesex respectively, winning the first but losing by an innings in the second. MAG