County Championship 1st (W7, D4, L5)
Clydesdale Bank 40 Group Stage
Friends T20 Semi Final
Captain (Championship and List-A) Chris Read
(T20) David Hussey
Mick Newell, then First XI coach got it right in his report: “2010 will be remembered as the year that we came out on the right side of it in the most prestigious domestic competition in world cricket. “Winning the [LV=] County Championship is always our primary target.”
The title was clinched at Old Trafford in dramatic fashion. Only 28 overs were possible over the first two days and none at all on the third day. Notts 89-2 after 28 overs, the game seemingly going nowhere.
With skippers unable to agree on setting targets, it remained for Nottinghamshire to pursue as many bonus points as possible, in the hopes of matching, or bettering, points gained elsewhere. After yet another weather delay, Notts batted on – briskly but not rashly – to 400-9 declared.
Three bowling points would be enough to bring the Championship back to Trent Bridge.
Fifteen overs remained officially but with Lancashire having resorted to spin three extra overs were possible. Off the 21st ball of the innings, Karl Brown edged to first slip then Chilton edged an unplayable delivery to Read; the tension further increased as a brief shower threatened to halt proceeding.
The division’s best batsman Shiv Chanderpaul lasted only three balls as he edged Andre Adams to third slip where Patel took the catch and at 16:52 Notts were champions of England – equal on points with Somerset but with one more win.
In his annual report on the season, Mick Newell looked back on that dramatic day. “I was half watching the game and half watching the television and only when Samit threw the ball away did I realise what had happened. I heard the screams and saw the lads setting off around the field so I ran out through the balcony door and joined in the celebrations.”
The First-Class season began with a draw and four consecutive victories. South African star Hashim Amla played those first five matches and his contributions helped to set Notts up for the run to the title.
In seven innings, he scored 86, 129, 58, 64, 5, 54 and 67 to finish with an average of 77.16.
In the season opener versus Durham MCCU, Notts made 505-5 dec with Bilal Shafayat (159) and Mark Wagh (100) in addition to Amla’s 86. The students, led by 114 from Greg Smith, who would join Notts in 2015, replied with 291 all out. Paul Franks exactly matched Smith’s score, 114 out of 291-6 dec in the second innings and the match was drawn.
Amla made a century on his Championship debut as Kent were beaten at Trent Bridge by an innings and 32 runs. Neil Edwards, previously with Somerset, also made his Championship debut in the game, making 85 as an opener.
The home game against Somerset was close, but Notts got home by two wickets. Stuart Broad with 5-89, four of those in a mid-innings burst, effectively sealed the win.
Steven Mullaney’s first Championship century – 100no – and 131 from Mark Wagh settled the 5-wicket win over Hampshire at Southampton.
More centuries followed in the big win over Durham at Trent Bridge. Ali Brown made 134 as he and Chris Read, 124no, shared a stand of 237 as Notts won by an innings and 62 runs. One notable performance in the Durham response was a first First-Class hundred, 106, from Ben Stokes.
Hampshire gained some revenge for their earlier defeat by coming to Trent Bridge and winning by two wickets. In this match it was Alex Hales that made a first First-Class ton, his 136 being matched by Neil McKenzie, 115, for the visitors.
No play on the final day meant the home fixture with Essex was drawn, as was the next game, against Kent at Tunbridge Wells. Chris Read made 112 as Notts racked up 462 all out; the home side responded with 570, with Darren Stevens, 197, and James Treadwell, 115 sharing a stand of 270.
Nottinghamshire put in their weakest batting performance of the season against Essex at Chelmsford, being dismissed for 180 and 159 to lose by 143 runs.
Mark Wagh’s third century of the summer – 139 – set up a comfortable 10-wicket win over Warwickshire, Broad 8-52 in the second innings, but the next match was lost by the same margin, to Somerset at Taunton.
James Hildreth made 142 in a solid Somerset batting line-up that made 517. Despite 104 from Samit Patel, Notts had to follow-on and were bowled out for 190. With Somerset only needing 13 to win, Notts bowled David Hussey and Alex Hales for an over each.
Hussey was in the more familiar role of batter against Yorkshire, making 251no as Notts scored 545-7 dec. Jacques Rudolph made 141 at the Tykes held on for a draw.
Warwickshire were forced to follow-on in the game at Trent Bridge, Ryan Sidebottom’s 5-53 and 4-14 from Andre Adams brought Notts a win by an innings and 55 runs.
Lancashire were beaten by three wickets (Adams 6-79) but two successive defeats stalled Notts’s push for the title.
Durham won by 210 runs at Chester-le-Street with centuries from Phil Mustard and Gordon Muchall; Ryan Sidebottom retired ‘out’ on five in Notts first innings following a call to join the England one-day squad.
Notts were skittled for 59 in their first innings against Yorkshire at Trent Bridge, Ajmal Shahzad (who spent two seasons with Notts) 4-21 and Oliver Hannon-Dalby (whose career has mainly been with Warwickshire) 4-18. Although they recovered to make 413 in the second innings, the visitors were able to press on to a win by five wickets.
Then came the dramas at Old Trafford where Adam Voges's 126 was vital to the title-clinching win but almost forgotten in the nail-biting finish.
In the white-ball competitions, Notts had a good run in the Group Stage of the Clydesdale Bank 40-over cup, but seven wins, four defeats and one abandoned game was not enough to get them to the knock-out phase.
In the Friends Provident T20, The Outlaws made it to the semi-final where they lost by 3 runs to Somerset; chasing a revised target of 152, they were 117-4 when rain ended play and to have won would have needed 121 runs at that point.
Ryan Sidebottom left at the end of the season to return to his native Yorkshire and Mark Wagh decided to retire from professional cricket. He had made three centuries in 2010 and top scored for Notts with 953 runs in the season. Wagh retired with more than 15,000 runs across all formats with 31 hundreds and a top score of 315 (made when he was with Warwickshire).
Last gasp hero Andre Adams was comfortably the best Notts bowler with 68 First-Class wickets at 22.17 but Stuart Broad’s brief appearances when not on England duty brought him 19 wickets at 15.73 from just two matches.
In the Trent Bridge Test, a towering performance from James Anderson, 5-54 and 6-17, and hundreds from Eoin Morgan (130, his highest in Tests) and Matt Prior 102no saw England to a comfortable win by 354 runs.
April 2026
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