worcestershire will be hoping to repeat last september’s victory over nottinghamshire at trent bridge when play is able to start at New Road in the specsavers county championship division one encounter.
here are the records of previous first class matches between the two counties
played: 129 won: 36 lost: 45 drawn: 47 tied: 1
last match played: worcestershire won by eight wickets at trent bridge – 5th-8th september 2017
notts 193 (jd libby 34, eg barnard 4-71) & 275 (mh wessels 60, j leach 5-69)
worcs 243 (eg barnard 55, sj mullaney 4-31) & 229-2 (dkh mitchell 139*)
highest total – worcestershire: 493-9 dec new road 1996
highest total – nottinghamshire: 540 worksop 1934
lowest total – worcestershire: 53 trent bridge 1922
lowest total – nottinghamshire: 73 trent bridge 1962
highest score – worcestershire: ga hick 227* new road 1986
highest score – nottinghamshire: rt simpson 243* trent bridge 1950
best innings bowling – worcs: nv radford 8-55 kidderminster 1987
best innings bowling – notts: b dooland 8-20 trent bridge 1956
best match bowling – worcs: ha gilbert 13-116 new road 1921
best match bowling – notts: h larwood 13-76 new road 1932
most runs – worcestershire: ga hick 2012 ave: 55.89
most runs – nottinghamshire: dw randall 2176 ave: 38.86
most wickets – worcestershire: n gifford 122 ave: 20.54
most wickets – nottinghamshire: h larwood 110 ave: 10.11
best partnerships for worcestershire:
1st 203 d kenyon lf outschoorn new road 1959
2nd 229* gm turner pa neale new road 1979
3rd 230* pa neale ejo hemsley new road 1979
4th 281 ja ormrod younis ahmed trent bridge 1979
5th 142 mm ali sm davies new road 2009
6th 220 pa neale rk illingworth new road 1990
7th 256 da leatherdale sj rhodes trent bridge 2002
8th 120 wpc weston sr lampitt new road 2001
9th 116 sr lampitt rk illingworth new road 1996
10th 103 k ali gd mcgrath new road 2000
best partnerships for nottinghamshire:
1st 220 g gunn ww whysall trent bridge 1924
2nd 176 ww keeton w walker worksop 1934
3rd 183 bc broad p johnson trent bridge 1990
4th 157 jwa taylor mh wessels new road 2015
5th 187 p johnson dw randall new road 1990
6th 270 rt simpson a jepson trent bridge 1950
7th 139 cj poole b dooland new road 1956
8th 92 kp pietersen ds lucas new road 2001
9th 80 g goonesena rt simpson kidderminster 1953
10th 152 u afzaal aj harris trent bridge 2000
*thanks to worcestershire ccc first team scorer and analyst phil mellish for the above information
