One of a group of young players whose enthusiasm and talent energised the closing stages of the 2024 Championship season was 19-year-old Freddie McCann.
A product of the Notts Academy, McCann made his First-Class debut away at Durham and scored 51 in the first innings. He was to do even better at home to champions-elect Surrey, making 154 to lead Notts almost to first innings parity and ensure a very creditable draw.
In the next home game, the last of the season, McCann made 130 against Warwickshire and thus became the first player in the long history of Nottinghamshire and Trent Bridge to make a hundred in each of his first two innings on the ground!
Not only that, but he became the first Notts batter to score a century and a one-fifty in their debut season
He shared the Young Player of the Year award in Nottinghamshire’s end-of-season honours with 16-year-old off break bowler Farhan Ahmed and the pair were selected for the England Lions winter tour.
Before breaking into the Notts first team, Freddie McCann had played one Under-19 Test, making 92 against Sri Lanka; against the same opponents, he scored 174 in an Under-19 ODI and averaged more than 70 in a three match series.
Freddie William McCann was born in Nottingham on 19 April 2005 and educated at Toothill School and Trent College.
He represented Nottinghamshire at all age-group cricket from Under-13s upwards and in 2019 joined the Notts Cricket Academy.
McCann, who bats left-handed but bowls right-arm off breaks, earned his elevation to the First Eleven with consistent high performances at each stage of his development.
Nottinghamshire First-Class Number 674
October 2024
Freddie McCann’s career stats (to date) can be seen here