Christopher O'Brien

Cricket nut, Heritage volunteer at Notts CCC, author of 'Cardus Uncovered'; and retired academic actuary

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@LordRic52 @NoThirdMan @ECB_cricket @bbctms @ZaltzCricket @fh_stephen @StoneDunk @callummay @WillHugall @stevebone1 @ACScricket @LeopardTweets Arthur Shrewsbury and William Scotton both went to the People's College, Nottingham. Both made their first-class debut, for @TrentBridge on 17/5/1875 and for England on 31/12/1881. And, sadly, both committed suicide.

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@GEvans7777 @dgriffinpix @DerbyshireCCC 4-ball overs in 1878.

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@TrentBridge In championship winning sides of both 1907 and 1929. More first-class matches than any other Notts player. And, as Neville Cardus wrote, He was one of the characters of cricket... He never knew where the imp of his genius was going to take him.

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@SomersetCCC @CountyChamp If you are at @TrentBridge then do visit the Wynne-Thomas Library, where a selection of our Somerset books will be on display. The Library is open in the lunch and tea intervals and in between; it's in the building behind the pavilion. And thousands of other books of course!

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@TrentBridge Strong links between @TrentBridge and Lincolnshire. 23 Notts players (first-class, List A, T20) were born in Lincs, third to Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire.

6 Notts players appeared for the Lincolnshire team before their Notts debut.

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@bracecricket Notts have won 993 first-class matches (counting from 1826), so repeating last year's 7 wins would bring the total of victories to 1000

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@TrentBridge Seven Nottinghamshire cricketers born on 24 March: Graeme Swann 1979, Basharat Hassan 1944, Stuart Rhodes 1910, George Chambers 1884, Christopher Harrison 1847, and two on the same day in 1846: Alfred Brooks and John Oscroft.

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@dgriffinpix Hutton's 111 (not ill) was on 25 May 1946 v Leicestershire at Headingley.

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@RicFinlay Sorry, Notts' last of 5 cases of two centuries in a 1 day match was 2024.

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@RicFinlay Nottinghamshire have a rather different experience. Two centuries in a one-day match on 5 occasions and won all, most recent v Sussex at Welbeck in 2025.

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@TrentBridge Record intact! No Nottinghamshire cricketer has ever been run out on 99 in a first-class match.

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@TrentBridge In Notts' 999 completed List A matches to date, they have won 72% when someone scored a century. Moores' is the 134th century.

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@TrentBridge The Tuesday fixture will be Notts' 1000th List A match; the first was in 1963. To date they have won 54% of matches at home, 45% away.
#Outlaws

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@DanKingdom96 If you're at Trent Bridge, please do pop into the Library, in the ticket office block behind the pavilion. Open each day of the match from the start of the lunch interval to the end of the tea interval, we have a special display of some of our Somerset books.

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Another stage in The Hundred sale, to allow new investors. Each company, eg Trent Rockets Ltd, originally issued one share, owned by ECB. That one share has now been split into 100, allowing split ownership. Except London Spirit, split into 200, and no split for N Superchargers.

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@TrentBridge Last time a Notts bowler bowled 62 or more overs in an innings (as LPW did here) was in 1929, Sam Staples, also v Yorkshire at Trent Bridge: 68-11-145-2, also a drawn match

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@TheCricketerMag @SharmoJourno First time that three Notts batters have been out for 33 in a first-class innings (1906, two out for 33 v Essex).

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@dgriffinpix @DerbyshireCCC @SimonCusden @redfern_dan And Akhil's elder brother Samit joined @DerbyshireCCC in 2024.

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@TrentBridge That's a pity. With another 8 runs Slater would have had 11 first-class centuries for Notts without ever having been out in the 90s, more than anyone else

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@TheCricketerMag @CaughtAtPoint Did India compensate Pakistan for the change in arrangements?