Overview
Trent Bridge, Nottingham is one of England's established international grounds, hosting cricket across all five formats since the early 2000s. Sitting in the Bridgford Road area of Nottingham, it is the home of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and serves as the base for the Trent Rockets in The Hundred. Across 163 matches between 2002 and 2025, the ground has built a clear statistical identity: a surface that tends to reward batting first, where the new ball moves enough to make openers work, and where the middle overs consistently produce the bulk of the runs. First-innings teams average 198, second-innings sides 183, and chasers have won just 44% of completed matches.
The competition mix is broad. The 86 Vitality Blast fixtures make it one of the busier domestic T20 venues in the North, but the 17 Tests and 27 ODIs confirm its standing as a full-weight international ground. Some of the most watched matches in recent English summers have been played here, including several that have shaped Test series.
Pitch and conditions
The powerplay numbers tell the first part of the story. An average of 42 runs at 1.32 wickets in the first six overs indicates a pitch where the new ball has a say without being wildly bowler-friendly. Openers who build through that period tend to leave their side well placed; the middle overs average 120 runs per innings across the dataset, which is where most of the damage gets done.
The death overs are a different matter. An average of 33 runs in the final phase is modest by the standards of modern white-ball cricket and may reflect both the ground's dimensions and the kinds of seam attacks that have operated here over the years. Sides expecting a free-hitting finale have often found Trent Bridge less obliging than venues to the south.
On the toss question, captains have chosen to field 58% of the time, a preference that does not sit neatly with a 44% chase success rate. The ground may look like a chasing surface on a fresh pitch, but the numbers over 163 matches suggest the first innings score is defended more often than not. Any team setting 200 or above here has historically been in a strong position.
Historical records
The batting records at Trent Bridge are dominated by visiting players against England. DJ Mitchell's 252 off 449 balls for New Zealand in the June 2022 Test is the highest individual score in the dataset, followed by Virat Kohli's 200 off 349 balls in August 2018 and Murali Vijay's 198 off 480 balls in July 2014. All three are double-century efforts by overseas batters, which says something about the ground's capacity to produce long, flat-track passages of play in Test cricket once a side gets in. Ian Bell's 190 off 287 balls against India in 2011 is the highest score by an England batter in these records.
With the ball, James Anderson's presence across three of the top five bowling figures here is the defining statistical fact. His 11/71 against Pakistan in 2010 is the ground record and one of the finest match returns of his Test career. Muttiah Muralitharan's 11/132 against England in 2006 is the only other 11-wicket match performance, and Stuart Broad's 9/51 in just 25.5 overs against Australia in 2015 is the most economical of all the major figures recorded here.
Who plays here
Nottinghamshire are the dominant presence in the data, having played 86 matches at the ground with a 61% win rate, winning 50 of those fixtures. England's international record here stands at 25 wins from 46 matches. The Trent Rockets have made the ground a particularly difficult venue for opponents in The Hundred, winning 15 of their 20 home matches for a 75% win rate. Visiting county sides have generally found Trent Bridge tough going: Derbyshire, for instance, have won just 1 of their 11 matches here. The combination of a home-friendly surface reading, strong local knowledge, and a partisan crowd makes this a ground where teams built around pace and swing bowling tend to find their natural habitat.
