County Championship - 14th (W4, D10, L8)
Refuge Assurance League - 4th (Play-offs)
Benson & Hedges Cup - Semi final
NatWest Trophy - Second Round
Captain - Tim Robinson
Ken Taylor, Cricket Manager at Trent Bridge, retired at the end of the 1990 season and commented in his final report:
'It is a good measure of the progress we have made over the last 12 years that my last season as manager must be looked upon with a considerable amount of disappointment.
'Even though we reached he semi finals of the Benson and Hedges Cup and qualified for the Refuge Assurance Cup play-offs by finishing fourth in the Sunday League, those achievements were overshadowed by our steep decline in the Britannic Assurance Championship fortunes, despite being early front runners in the title race'.
The season certainly came in two distinct parts. Even though there were a high number of drawn games, Notts were undefeated in the first eleven Championship fixtures - and failed to record another win in the next eleven!
In limited overs cricket, there was a disappointing loss to Worcestershire in the semi finals of the Benson and Hedges Cup, losing by nine wickets at home as the Pears easily chased 232.
Chris Broad had an outstanding year, scoring 2226 First-Class runs and, with nine centuries, equalling the record for most hundreds in a season for Notts.
Set against the remarkable feats he achieved in the previous two seasons, Franklyn Stephenson did not have the best of summers but shared the honour of leading wicket-taker with Kevin Cooper (54 apiece), but pride of place should go to Andy Pick who won a well-desered place in the England ‘A’ party for the winter trip to Pakistan for his efforts.
Pick bowled with great hostility at times when taking the new ball and compared favourably with Ian Bishop and Devon Malcolm in the Championship match at Derby early on.
Notts continued to play well in one-day contests, although there was disappointment in the second round of the NatWest Trophy at Northampton and then later in the Refuge Assurance Cup play-off semi-final against neighbours Derbyshire; Notts had finished fourth to qualify for the knockout stage.
The rain that brought so many drawn Championship games also had an impact on the Trent Bridge Test. Play was reduced on all five days - indeed on day two just seventeen runs (for one wicket) were possible - and the match fizzled out to a draw. The discontent aroused because the rules then did not allow for refunds unless an entire day's plays was lost was exacerbated two years later when the Edgbaston Test saw only two balls bowled on one day. Action by disgruntled spectators led to a court decision in December 1992 and a change of policy at the ECB.
October 2026
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