By Dave Bracegirdle

England face New Zealand at Trent Bridge on Wednesday 5 June looking to pick up their first victory in this season’s NatWest One Day International (ODI) series.

It will be only the second time that the two countries have met here at Trent Bridge in an ODI, with England winning the previous encounter by 80 runs in 1975.

That contest was only the second one-day international to be staged in Nottingham and was a group match in the Prudential World Cup competition.

In the 60-overs per side clash England made 266-6, with Keith Fletcher, of Essex, top-scoring with 131.

New Zealand fell short, bowled out for 186 on the final ball of the innings. Opener John Morrison made 55 for the Kiwis, with Tony Greig claiming bowling figures of 4-45. 

Although it has been 38 years since they returned here to face England, the Black Caps have played four other competitive ODIs here.

In the 1979 World Cup they defeated Sri Lanka by 9 wickets. Chasing a victory target of 190 they romped to victory with Glenn Turner scoring an unbeaten 83 and man of the match Geoff Howarth making 63 not out, from just 75 balls faced.

That tournament was won by the West Indies, who were pushed by New Zealand in another Trent Bridge group game.

Clive Lloyd’s undefeated 73 helped his side to 244-7, enough to claim a 32-run victory, despite Richard Hadlee making a typically ebullient 42 in the reply.

Another narrow defeat occurred in the 1983 World Cup tournament when Pakistan beat New Zealand here by just 11 runs, with Zaheer Abbas scoring a century for the victors.

In the 1999 tournament New Zealand defeated a star-studded India side here in the Super Sixes. Despite the presence of Tendulkar, Ganguly and Dravid in the Indian ranks, NZ got home by 5 wickets in their pursuit of 252.

Last year’s Trent Bridge ODI resulted in a 7-wicket victory for South Africa. After bowling England out for just 182, they were propelled to their target by Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers, who combined in an unbroken fourth wicket stand of 174.

Amla ended on 97 not out, with his partner unbeaten on 75.

That was the 36th One Day International at Trent Bridge, with the first taking place on 31 August 1974 when England played Pakistan. Originally scheduled to be a 55 over contest, morning rain reduced the contest to fifty overs per side. England made 244-4, with David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd carrying his bat throughout the innings to reach 116 not out.

Pakistan gave ODI debuts to Imran Khan and Zaheer Abbas but it was another of their celebrated batsmen, Majid Khan, who replied with a ton of his own as the tourists eased to a 7-wicket victory.

Apart from Lloyd, the other English batsmen to score Trent Bridge ODI centuries have been Keith Fletcher, Robin Smith, Alec Stewart, Nick Knight, Andrew Strauss, Paul Collingwood and Allan Lamb, who is the only cricketer to score two ODI hundreds on the ground – 118 v Pakistan in 1982 and 100 not out against the Aussies seven years later.

There have only been five visiting centurions – Majid and Zaheer for Pakistan – and three Australians, Trevor Chappell, who did it in a 1983 World Cup match against India, plus Ricky Ponting and Tim Paine, who both reached three figures here against England in 2009.

Paul Collingwood is one of three bowlers, alongside, Pakistan’s Waqar Younis and Ken MacLeay of Australia, to claim six-wicket hauls in Trent Bridge One Day Internationals – with Stuart Broad, joining the great Indian all-rounder Kapil Dev as the only others to get five-fors.

Broad’s achievement came against South Africa in 2008 as he collected the man of the match honours with figures of 5-23 in England’s 10-wicket success.

Apart from Stuart – nine other Notts players have represented England in Trent Bridge ODIs; his dad Chris, Eddie Hemmings, Derek Randall, Chris Lewis, Paul Franks, Chris Read, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann and Samit Patel.

The closest finish in the previous 36 matches came in 1989 when England and Australia fought out a tied contest in a 55-over game – 226 runs apiece – and perhaps the biggest shock came during a 1983 World Cup match when Zimbabwe beat Australia by 13 runs - and nine of the previous matches were umpired by the late, great David Shepherd.

There’s no finer cricketing sight than a packed Trent Bridge all spruced up for international duty and the fine forecast will see Trent Bridge keep up its proud record of not having lost an ODI game to the elements.

 

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