County Championship - 11th (W6, D10, L6)
Benson & Hedges Cup - Winners
Refuge Assurance League - Fourth (Play off final)
NatWest Trophy - Second round
Captain Tim Robinson
For once, the season review must start with the limited overs game.
In the final of the Benson & Hedges Cup at Lord's in July, a tight game came down to the last ball of the last of the 110 overs bowled (55 per side). Nottinghamshire were seven wickets down and needed three to win.
As The Guardian put it, reviewing the match thirty years later, 'Injured and with a batting average of four, Eddie Hemmings found a gap to win the B&H Cup and end Essex’s dominance'!
Hemmings, by his own admission, only really had one scoring shot - carved out through the covers and, somehow, Essex seamer John Lever and his skipper Graham Gooch left a big enough gap, and the cup was won.
Essex got a measuere of revenge, beating Notts in the final of the Refuge Assurance Cup, played between the top four sides in the Refuge League (Notts had finished fourth), at Edgbaston in September.
Notts had their ups and downs in the Championship, including 25 points being deducted because of the state of the pitch, but won six games and earned eighth place in the table, although the docking of those points meant that the final place was eleventh.
Tim Robinson enjoyed an excellent season, gaining in experience as captain, coming top of the club’s First-Class batting averages with 1,504 runs at 44.23 and being awarded the ‘Man of the match’ in the Benson and Hedges Final. Tim also took 30 catches, quite a few of them in the slips. Franklyn Stephenson again had a fine season with the ball, taking 92 wickets in First-Class cricket, but he was not as successful with the bat as in the previous year.
Kevin Saxelby played in around half of the Championship games with mixed fortunes, but he made an outstanding contribution to the Refuge Assurance Sunday League. In fact, he created a competition record by taking five wickets in four successive matches and finished with 29 wickets, the most in the competition.
The Australians visited Trent Bridge twice, being comfortably victorious in both matches.
In the Test Match, Mark Taylor and Geoff Marsh became the first pair to bat through a full day's play in a Test in England; day one ended with the visitors on 301-0. Marsh was eventually dismissed for 138 and Taylor for 219 as Australia declared on 602 for 6. They went on to win by an innings and 180 runs.
Neither made a century in the county game but David Boon (102) and five wickets each for Carl Rackeman and Merv Hughes saw the Aussies home by 196 runs.
October 2026
Scorecards and stats can be seen here