Cricket fans in Nottinghamshire can fill the space between the end of the winter tours and the start of the new season now that the Nottinghamshire Cricket Annual 2024, produced by the Nottinghamshire Cricket Lovers Society (NCLS) has been published.
The Annual is available to buy, cost £7, from the Trent Bridge Shop or the Ticket Office at the ground.
At 256 pages, including 32 pages of colour photographs, the annual contains a comprehensive summary of the first team including averages, outstanding performances, and partnerships, and extensive reviews of each of the three first team competitions. Full scorecards and reports for all 2023 Notts first and second team fixtures are included.
Contributors include the Notts CCC Chief Executive Lisa Pursehouse, who reflects on her time at Trent Bridge, and the club’s performance analyst Kunal Manek.
Notts heritage volunteer Chris O’Brien presents a history of the 100 first-class double tons scored by Notts players, Joe Clarke magnificent rearguard innings of 229 not out bringing up this milestone against Warwickshire at Trent Bridge last summer.
Nottinghamshire Cricket Lovers’ committee member Martyn Shaw summarises their 2023 programme and activities.
An interview with former Notts batter Mat Dowman (Notts 1993-1999) by former Notts spinner Jim Hindson is included; this was originally published in The Cricketer. Steve LeMottee has written a comprehensive piece on the Trent Bridge heritage activities along with news from the Trent Bridge Library.
Alan Odell summarises the Trent Bridge Tours during 2023 and David Beaumont provides an article on the Notts committee room.
As usual, obituary and book review sections are provided along with an article concerning Nottinghamshire’s previous visits to Southport, where they will play Lancashire in 2024.
Details of the 2024 playing staff, including new arrivals and departures, and a review of The Blaze (with a summary of the season written by their Director of Cricket James Cutt) and of Notts Women’s cricket in 2023 are also in the Annual.
Notts fans and members will find an extensive 21-page record section; full coverage of the Men’s and Women’s Hundred; coverage of all age-group representative cricket in Notts; and of the recreational Leagues around the County.
The Nottinghamshire Cricket Annual is produced by a team of volunteers, led by editor Mike Goulder, with support from the County Club and many local firms and organisations. Player of the Year Brett Hutton, who topped the Championship bowling list with 62 First-Class wickets, is featured in full flow on the cover.
The NCLS Annual is recognised as one of the best cricket yearbooks currently available: “My congratulations to the team that put this yearbook together – Outstanding!’’ – Journal of the Cricket Society
February 2024