NCCC News: County Cricket Members Group Communication

 

14/05

County Cricket Members Group Communication

My name is Nick Evans and I’m emailing you as Notts members on behalf of Alan Higham who has been leading the campaign for County Cricket members to have a say in the future direction of the game.

 

You should have received a communication from the club this week outlining their current position on the private investment in the game. It is a bit vague but the whole national situation is a bit vague at present. 

The point of this email group is to keep you up to date with any developments that we feel you should know about that would affect what sort of cricket you get to watch at Trent Bridge next season and beyond that.

 

Please come to the Members Forum at lunch on the Friday of the Hampshire game next week so remind the committee about how much we care about the direction of travel from the ECB.

 

For a journalists view on the current situation, see this article by Barney Ronay in the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/article/2024/may/09/selling-off-summer-why-plans-for-hundred-should-matter-to-all-cricket-lovers) and the letter from Alan Higham in response. (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/13/profit-trumps-all-in-plans-for-the-hundred).

 

If you want to contact me about this email or anything else, my personal email address is below.

 

Cheers,

 

Nick Evans

 

Nickevans59@vrignmedia.com

13/05

In the Trent Bridge Library for the current game.

09/05

New Blast Presentation Team

Colin to be replaced with:

About Mark Dennison (from Radio Nottingham)

Mark was born in Manchester but moved to the north east of England when he was four. His earliest memory of this was falling off his go-kart and cracking his head open on moving day....ouch!

He came to Nottingham in the late 1980s to study humanities (that's right - he couldn't decide what to do, so chose a mish-mash of subjects) at Nottingham Trent. It was here that a passion for radio was ignited.

Mark worked voluntarily for Nottingham Hospitals Radio. His big break came in the early 1990s, when some weekend work/holiday cover came up at TFM radio in the north east and later at Trent FM in Nottingham.

After graduating, Mark's radio career took him back to the north east, then to Yorkshire and back to Nottingham in 1996. He stayed at Trent FM until 2010, when he joined the BBC.

Mark loves to take the show out on the road; outside broadcasts include a week-long trip along the Trent and the canals by boat, exploring Nottinghamshire by caravan and a live show from Sarajevo to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Torvil and Dean’s Olympic triumph.

Mark is married to the legendary 'Mrs D', who works for the NHS. They have a son and a daughter, plus a Labrador called Oscar.

Mark's interests include cooking, playing squash and cycling – he’s taken part in several charity rides, including London to Paris, 100 miles in a day around London in 2015, and the Great Notts Bike Ride.

Also, Mark is a keen Forest fan - he attends most home games and does the stadium announcements on match days.

02/05

Mick Newell "agreeable interview" - same old script to cover his own ar*e

Second XI had another heavy win, this time against Yorkshire at Lady Bay scorecard, four wickets apiece for Fletch and LPW.

29/04

Peter emerges from his bunker for a soft Pravda interview, "frustrating" x4 !!!

25/04

Derbyshire 2s dismissed for 219, Notts victorious by an innings and 340 runs

Star with the ball Liam Patterson-White 9/81

scorecard

"Liam Patterson-White’s match figures of 13 for 93 against Derbyshire surpassed the previous Nottinghamshire second eleven best of 13 for 99 by Andy Carter in 2009." - news of the twos

Sammy King (116*) another centurion before Steven Mullaney declared on 688/8, a narrow lead of 559 at half way.

Batting on allowed a Derbyshire golf course and dining establishment to come into play when Jack Morley bowled the James Hayes. If you know, you'll know it. What use the extra 19 runs will serve is unclear (since King's landmark).

24/04

Centuries today for Tom Moores and Tom Loten at Lady Bay. Tom M off 64 balls and Tom L off 185 balls, against Derbyshire 2s.

This game is being streamed by the TB Stream Team, check it out on Youtube.

23/04

You will have received the Email, probably, from Trent Bridge proclaiming the magnificent innings partnership between Joe Clarke and Will Young of 392* containing the two wagon-wheels (below).

Joe Clarke's 213* is his third century in as many matches and is the seventh player to achieve this feat for Nottinghamshire historically (though several have done it twice).  Prior to Clarke's trio of consecutive tons, Dave Hussey did the same in 2004, the only other time this has been achieved this century.

Joe Clarke                     2024* 

Dave Hussey                 2004

Clive Rice (4)                1981

Walter Keeton (4)          1949

Joe Hardstaff jnr (5)      1948

Joe Hardstaff jnr            1939

Walter Keeton (5)          1933

Dodge Whysall (4)        1924

Jimmy Iremonger (4)    1904

Jimmy Iremonger (4)    1901

You may like to note that historically that if you get three tons in three matches consecutively, there is a greater than 50% chance that you'll make it four in a row, so fingers crossed for Joe at Edgbaston to keep the sequence going.