2022 ANNUAL REPORT

MINUTES OF THE NOVEMBER 2022 EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING 65 M I NU T E S O F T H E EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEET ING Held in the Derek Randall Suite at Trent Bridge, 6pm on Tuesday 1 November 2022 The Club Chairman opened the meeting at 6pm. He explained that at a members’ forum on Monday 5 September 2022 the club was presented with a petition for an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM).The request for an EGM had a legitimate proposer and seconder and the required number of signatures.Voting members of the club were therefore invited to attend the EGM at 6pm on 1 November. The Club Chairman announced that the meeting was quorate and was duly convened. The Chairman explained that the object of the meeting, as set out by the proposer and seconder, was to consider the content of the note signed by those members in support of the presented petition as outlined below: We the undersigned members of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club (the club) require an Extraordinary General Meeting to take place at Trent Bridge at a convenient date and time set by the General Committee to maximise attendance of the club’s members.The agenda is set out below: 1. To consider all aspects of the club’s officials’ handling of any discussion held amongst any of the counties and/ or the ECB relating to any matter connected to the High- Performance Review, especially any implications to alter the future schedule or structure of county cricket. 2. To discuss the communications to members and the level of involve- ment of members ahead of the club casting its vote on the future structure/schedule. 3. To discuss in detail the views of club officials on the merits of the various options considered and receive a detailed explanation of why they voted as they did. The original petitioners asked for the following resolutions to be considered by the meeting: A. The members have confidence in how club officials managed the process, communications and member involvement. The second resolution (B) was ineffective as no actual vote had been convened by the ECB. For the record the Chairman noted the wording of that second resolution: B. The members have confidence in the actual vote cast by the club’s chair on behalf of the members. The Club Chairman then asked the proposer of the EGM, Mr Gunn, to speak to resolution A. Mr Gunn explained that he was representing a small group of members who had actively collected signatures for a petition. The signatures were primarily collected during the course of Nottinghamshire’s Royal London Cup fixtures at Grantham and Welbeck on 12, 14 and 23 August. Mr Gunn thanked the club for convening the EGM and also the General Committee for their continued representation of the members’ interests. Mr Gunn was aware that this was the first EGM in 50 years and he wanted to approach it collaboratively. He set out the context of how the EGM had been called, observing that the second resolution was predicated on the basis that Nottinghamshire’s Chairman was due to cast his vote on recommen- dations from the England andWales Cricket Board’s High-Performance Review (HPR) on 20 September 2022. However, the assumption was inaccurate and no vote upon any proposals had taken place in September. In addition, following dialogue with the Chairmen, Chief Executives and Directors of Cricket from across the 18 counties – and with requests having been made for additional time for consultation – the ECB later confirmed that there would be no reduction in the volume of County Championship cricket in 2023. The first resolution to be heard at the meeting, however, remained effective and would be the sole item on the agenda as there was a percep- tion amongst some members that they had not been fully consulted or informed in the eight weeks since the members’ forum. Mr Nick Evans formally seconded the motion. In response, the Club Chairman said