Pocketing 12 points for a draw with Yorkshire was enough to keep Nottinghamshire top of the County Championship table with eight of 14 matches played. They now find defending champions Surrey breathing down their necks, though, after the match at Trent Bridge ended in stalemate, the game coming to an end when the home side...
Nottinghamshire piled 155 in the morning session on to their overnight 298-6 for the loss of only two more wickets. Kishan, dropped at mid-wicket off Jack White without addition to his 44 overnight, advanced to 87 from 98 balls before being caught there off Dom Bess, having struck 12 fours and a six down the...
Somerset made a fast start after being put in at Taunton and were 70-1 after 38 balls as Will Smeed brought up his half-century from 29 deliveries. When Smeed fell to Eddie Jack for 68 from 37 balls, with nine fours and three sixes, Somerset were 116-3 with more than nine overs to come, but...
Adam Hose hit a devastating 95 from 51 balls to help Worcestershire Rapids secure a 25-run victory over Notts Outlaws in the T20 Blast at Trent Bridge. The hosts won the toss and put Worcestershire in to bat – a decision that looked to be paying dividends when they picked up two quick early wickets...
At Edgbaston, Durham won the toss and took three wickets in the opening 17 balls of the game to set up a comfortable victory. Sam Hain was the only batsman to show for the Bears, making 45 in 28 balls, but New Zealand’s Jimmy Neesham took 3-34 as the hosts were bowled out for 143....
David McGoldrick has rejected the offer of a new contract at Notts County, the club have confirmed. The 37-year-old former Republic of Ireland international forward, who returned to his boyhood club in 2023, scored 17 goals in 35 appearances this season as the Magpies reached the League Two play-offs. McGoldrick has scored 180 goals in...
Last season’s beaten finalists Somerset beat Surrey as they made an impressive start to their T20 Blast campaign. Jason Roy hit a blistering 92, but Surrey were restricted to 146-9 at Taunton before the hosts completed a five-wicket win. Holders Gloucestershire started their defence with a narrow four-run defeat to Kent Spitfires, while the returning...
Nottinghamshire’s Ben Slater and Joe Clarke posted battling half-centuries and new England Lion George Hill claimed five more wickets for Yorkshire during a fascinating opening day of County Championship cricket at Headingley. Division One leaders Notts were bowled out for 228 by a White Rose side who sat second-bottom ahead of this seventh fixture of...
Maynard took over at Meadow Lane in January 2024 from Notts’ National League promotion-winning boss Luke Williams, who left the club to take charge of Championship side Swansea City. The job at Notts was Maynard’s first in full-time management, having worked part-time as Wealdstone boss while juggling his long-time career as a telecommunications engineer. His...
Centuries from Emilio Gay, Ollie Robinson and Graham Clark put Durham in a strong position on a record-breaking day in their County Championship match with Nottinghamshire. Gay and Robinson dominated the morning session as they pushed Durham beyond Nottinghamshire’s total, with Gay notching up a second consecutive home century. Robinson was then joined by Clark...
More than a few times during the season, Maynard lamented that his side did not get the results that performances warranted. No game left the former telecommunications engineer more exasperated than their 1-0 play-off first-leg defeat by AFC Wimbledon. Conor Grant had a late goalbound effort cleared by Josh Neufville, having been repeatedly denied by...
Mohammad Abbas took five wickets on his Nottinghamshire debut to put the Division One leaders in a strong position against his former county after 16 wickets fell on day two of their County Championship clash with Hampshire at Trent Bridge. The 34-year-old Pakistan seamer, who took 180 first-class wickets in four summers at the Utilita...
Nottinghamshire batting prodigy Freddie McCann gave more evidence of his considerable potential by posting the third century of his fledgling first-class career to defy Hampshire on day one of their Rothesay County Championship match at Trent Bridge. In only his 13th innings in the Championship so far, the 20-year-old England Lions left-hander made 138 as...
Division One leaders Nottinghamshire eased to a nine-wicket win inside three days after outplaying Sussex in their County Championship match at Trent Bridge. Needing 148 to win after Sussex were bowled out for 278 in their second innings, Nottinghamshire were home and dry in 25.5 overs after unbeaten half-centuries from skipper Haseen Hameed (62) and...
England’s Josh Tongue picked up a second consecutive five-wicket haul at Trent Bridge as Nottinghamshire dismissed Sussex for 169 on the opening day of their County Championship clash. The two counties began the day sharing the early Division One lead but the home side have the upper hand so far after Tongue, in only his...