Summer 2011 £2.50 Offical magazine of Nottinghamshire CCC EYES ON THE PRIZE Alex Hales has his sights set on international recognition Ali Brown calls time l Ashes bidding explained l Nottinghamshire’s eight lions Welcome Nottinghamshire Chief Executive Derek Brewer INSIDE YOUR prepares for the outcome of a competitive bidding process. LATEST ISSUE... As I write these notes and 2016. The detail is ALEX HALES following our Friends Life covered elsewhere on page batsman IS t20 home quarter-final 6 and the implications for 08 ON THE UP tie against Somerset, it is our future are significant. membeRS’ SURVEY heartening to reflect that As well as producing a WE act ON more than 155,000 people detailed bid document, we 14 YOUR OpiniOns watched cricket at Trent were required to make a ENGlaND EXPects Bridge during June, July presentation to the Major NOtts RepResented at ALL LEVELS and early August. Match Group in London 18 It was superb to see not on 5th August. only full houses for our Peter Wright, Lisa International matches, Pursehouse, Tracey 18 but a 19% increase in our Francis and I outlined home t20 attendances. Our players all that we have achieved in recent deserve great credit for such a thrilling years as well as setting out our plans campaign and there are times in for the future. professional sport when you just have to Part of our presentation involved congratulate the opposition. Somerset’s video footage of others telling our quarter-final run chase, masterminded story and, whatever the outcome, by some extraordinary hitting from I would like to place on record our Kieron Pollard, was one such instance. sincere thanks to all the MPs, Local The Trent Bridge Test Match also Authority Leaders and Executives, provided some outstanding cricket, and along with local business leaders, our Head Groundsman Steve Birks and who provided such unstinting support. his team deserve all the credit they have We were also very pleased with the subsequently received for producing a local media coverage and it made such CONTACTS pitch with such pace and carry. They a difference giving a presentation with Michael Temple, Editor work tirelessly throughout the year such a weight of powerful support Head of Marketing & and those of you who have watched behind us. Communications Domestic cricket here will know how I have been asked on numerous [email protected] good the pitches have been all season. occasions about the likely outcome Chris Botherway, Deputy Editor With such excellent weather, and the and it is impossible to predict. The New Media Manager inspirational sight of Stuart Broad in competition is formidable, highly [email protected] full flow taking a hat trick, the match respected and, in many cases, we have Bev Soar will live long in the memory of all who formed alliances and friendships with Membership Services [email protected] were there. those we are competing directly with. Amid all the excitement on the field, The only categorical statement I can Mark Worrall Sponsorship & Advertising we have been working very hard behind make is this. As an Executive and non- [email protected] the scenes to try to secure the future Executive team working closely together, Trudie Warsop of our great Club. I have written in we have, we believe, done everything Conference & Banqueting this column on many occasions about we can to articulate our case. We await [email protected] the competition we face to stage major the Major Match Group’s decisions in Photographs supplied by matches in the future, and in a few the full knowledge of their complexity, Getty Images; Nottingham Post; weeks time our governing body, the consequence and magnitude. portraitcollective.com England & Wales Cricket Board, are Designed by BowlesAssociates about to make some decisions which Nottinghamshire CCC, will shape not only our future but that Trent Bridge, Nottingham NG2 6AG of the majority of Test Match venues. Telephone 0115 982 3000 As many of you are aware, we have Ticket Hotline 0844 811 8711 been bidding, as have our competitors, www.nottsccc.co.uk for a package of matches between 2013 NOTTSCCC.CO.UK Stuart Broad launches into his celebration after securing a Test hat-trick at Trent Bridge NOTTSCCC.CO.UK PICTURE THIS NOTTSCCC.CO.UK News ngland batsman Michael Lumb has signed a three-year contract with ENottinghamshire after announcing that he will leave Hampshire at the end of the season. Lumb has been ruled out for the remainder of the domestic season through injury but will join Nottinghamshire following stints with Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash league and Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League. “We’re delighted that Michael has agreed to join us and the meetings that we’ve had with him have been very constructive in terms of our respective ambitions and the role he sees himself playing in fulfilling them,” said Nottinghamshire Director of Cricket Mick Newell. “We have been in the market for a proven batsman and we believe that he has the pedigree and the drive to improve our standing in all formats.” LUMB Lumb has a first class average of 34.51 BRAVO and has featured in eight Twenty20 SIGNS Internationals for England. “I’ve enjoyed five great seasons with THREE- BECOMES Hampshire and it has been a real pleasure to have won two limited-overs trophies,” YEAR said Lumb. FOURTH “However, I feel that now is the right time to make a fresh start at a new club and I’m DEAL pleased to be offered the opportunity to OVERSEAS play for Nottinghamshire. It’s a challenge PRO and one I’m looking forward to.” arren Bravo became the fourth overseas player to represent T20 CROWD BOOST DNottinghamshire this season when he Notts Outlaws were the best supported the Outlaws’ home quarter-final ensured checked into Trent Bridge in August. team in the North Group of the Friends that the fixture was the best supported The half-brother of international team- Life t20 with official statistics revealing in the knockout stage, while the total mate Dwayne Bravo and a relation of Brian that attendances at Trent Bridge were the group stage attendance of 58,966 was the Lara, Darren was briefed to add steel to the highest outside of London. third highest behind Surrey (83,843) and top order having been drafted in following The 12,070 supporters in attendance for Middlesex (59,862). the departures of David Hussey and Adam Voges. Bravo has a Test batting average of 39.88 from eight matches having made his Test ENGLAND TWELFTH MAN STINT debut for the West Indies in November. Two of the six Test Match fifties he has to his name EARNS ELSTONE CULT STATUS came against India. “We scoured the world to find an overseas Nottinghamshire batsman Scott a lasting impression. batsman to reinforce our top order and we Elstone enjoyed a hero’s welcome in the “The reaction of the crowd was felt that Darren was a player who was worth Outlaws’ Friends Life t20 quarter-final incredible after the second catch and pursuing,” said Nottinghamshire Director of after playing a leading role in England’s it seemed almost as loud as when they Cricket Mick Newell. victory over India in the second npower reacted to Broady’s hat-trick,” said “He has an excellent record for a 22 year Test at Trent Bridge. Elstone, who steered clear of England’s old batsman and we feel that he is a player Elstone fielded as twelfth man post-match celebrations, preferring to who has the hunger to succeed in county throughout the climactic fourth day of return home. cricket. His Test record demonstrates that the Test and caught Suresh Raina and “Usually my head is very clear when he is comfortable in adapting to different Harbhajan Singh in addition to dropping I’m preparing to take a catch but whilst conditions and we’re hopeful that he can a chance presented by Praveen Kumar the ball was in the air I was very aware of make a good contribution between now and and admits that the atmosphere the crowd and a lot was going through the end of the season.” generated by the capacity crowd left my mind.” NOTTSCCC.CO.UK NOTTS NEWS... IN BRIEF FOR UP TO THE MINUTE NEWS & EXCLUSIVE AUDIO AND VIDEO BULLETINS, VISIT NOTTSCCC.CO.UK CONFIRMED MAJOR MatchES at TRENT BRIDGE 2012 England v West Indies Test England v South Africa One Day International England v West Indies International Twenty20 201 2 x England v Australia International Twenty20 201 England v India One Day International 201 England v Australia One Day International 201 England v Sri Lanka One Day International MatchES to BE ALLocatED IN THIS ROUND OF BIDDING 201 2 x England v Australia Test England v New Zealand One ECB TO ANNOUNCE Day International England v Australia One Day International ASHES HOSTS 2 x World Test Championship Semi-Final 201 rent Bridge officials will learn whether two Ashes Tests on the table for 2013 and three England v India Test their bid to host an Ashes Test in 2013 for 2015. 3 x England v Sri Lanka or 2015 has been successful when Headingley and The Kia Oval have long-term One Day International major match allocations are confirmed staging agreements in place that guarantees them Twenty20 Finals Day in late September. a Test Match and a One Day International each England v India Twenty20 TNottinghamshire submitted a comprehensive year until 2018 and 2020 respectively. As part of bid document in July and delivered a presentation those deals, The Kia Oval will host Ashes Tests in 201 to the Major Match Group at the ECB offices at 2013 and 2015 although Headingley will have to 3 x England v Australia Test Lord’s in August.