About The Club
Today’s Plumtree CC
- Plumtree CC is the only patron club of the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club.
- Member of the ECB & Nottinghamshire Cricket Board; affiliated to the League Cricket Conference & the Midlands Club Cricket Conference.
- 3 Saturday league sides in divisions A,B and L of the Gunn & Moore South Nottinghamshire Cricket League.
- Sunday League sides in Divisions 1 and 4 of the Newark Alliance.
- Colts sides at under 11,12,13 and14, with a continual focus on Junior Development.
- Popkess Cup winners on 2 occasions.
- Six times Notts and Lincs champions in the National Village Cup Competition.150 playing members with a committee of 28 and 90 Vice-Presidents.
- The club has a Development Plan and a Full Child Protection Policy.
- The club has qualified coaching both indoors at Trent Bridge in the winter and outdoors during the season at the PCG at all levels, including Nottinghamshire CCC’s Matthew Wood as Head Coach for the 2010 season and County Director of Cricket Mick Newell helping the Winter Nets for juniors.
- Plumtree was the second club in Nottinghamshire to be awarded the ECB Clubmark status in 2003 and the first club to have it re-awarded in 2009.
The Beginning
Furthest left is John Webster & furthest right is the late Norman Prentice, both played for Plumtree CC in the 1930's. In the centre are Mavis and Tony Cockayne.
The first documentary evidence of cricket played at Plumtree appeared in the Nottingham Journal of 1815, although it has always been considered that cricket was played at Plumtree around 1800.
The report of 1815 was a match played on Easter Monday and states that the match was played at Bunny between eleven of the East Leake Club and the same number from the Plumtree and Keyworth Clubs. East Leake scoring 38 and 15 with Plumtree and Keyworth scoring 30 and 21, a majority in favour of East Leake of 2 notches.
On Monday 15th April 1816 , the Plumtree and Tollerton Clubs played at Bradmore and this time East Leake won by an innings and 34 notches.
An extract from the Nottingham Review of Friday August 29th 1817 gives details of an amazing match between Sneinton and eleven of Plumtree and five other clubs from neighbouring villages. The match was played at Edwalton with Plumtree and the villages scoring 32 and 34 for a total of 66 and Sneinton scoring 27 and 40 for a total of 67. Sneinton won by 1 notch, but then there was some dispute about the scoring, so the teams agreed to bat again – Sneinton batted, but when their first wicket was ‘run-down’ Sneinton agreed that the stakes were drawn and withdrew from the match. The Sneinton Club being very aggrieved challenged the same eleven from any sum not less than 20 guineas to a match on the Nottingham Cricket Ground (probably the Forest ) on the 6th October next or at anytime they may agree upon.
No record can be found of this match being re-played. It would appear that the first match, like many others played at this time ended in dispute, no doubt due to the large amount of betting that took place on such matches, not to mention the considerable stakes actually played for.
The Interim
Mavis Cockayne Past President, Kevin Pickaver Past Chairman, Ken Bloor Secretary & Tony Cockayne Life member
During the 2nd World War the club continued to play, with annual subscriptions at the time of 5 shillings. The club then operated with a committee of 7, with 19 Vice-Presidents.
The Bradmore Lane ground was purchased in 1975 by a group of the club’s players, and is owned in the name of the club’s trustees.
In 1987 the club’s purpose built clubhouse was opened by Tim Robinson, of Notts and England . The clubhouse sits within the most picturesque ground in the East Midlands and is a warm and friendly environment to warch cricket and enjoy the friendships that the game engenders.
