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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> (1999–2007)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Test debut (cap <a href="/wiki/List_of_England_Test_cricketers" title="List of England Test cricketers">595</a>)</th><td class="infobox-data">1 July 1999 v <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_national_cricket_team" title="New Zealand national cricket team">New Zealand</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Last Test</th><td class="infobox-data">5 January 2007 v <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">ODI debut (cap <a href="/wiki/List_of_England_ODI_cricketers" title="List of England ODI cricketers">155</a>)</th><td class="infobox-data">23 January 2000 v <a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_cricket_team" title="South Africa national cricket team">South Africa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Last ODI</th><td class="infobox-data">28 October 2006 v <a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Domestic team information </th></tr><tr style="line-height: 9pt"> <th scope="col">Years</th><th scope="col">Team</th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal; padding-right:3em">1995–1997</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Devon_County_Cricket_Club" title="Devon County Cricket Club">Devon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal; padding-right:3em">1997</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Gloucestershire County Cricket Club">Gloucestershire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal; padding-right:3em">1998–2017</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club">Nottinghamshire</a> <i>(squad no. 7)</i></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Career statistics</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="padding:0"> <table style="width:100%; margin:-1px; white-space:nowrap;"> <tbody><tr><th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">Competition</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/One_Day_International" title="One Day International">ODI</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/First-class_cricket" title="First-class cricket">FC</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/List_A_cricket" title="List A cricket">LA</a></th> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">Matches</th> <td>15</td> <td>36</td> <td>350</td> <td>333</td> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">Runs scored</th> <td>360</td> <td>300</td> <td>16,483</td> <td>5,564</td> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em"><a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(cricket)" title="Batting average (cricket)">Batting average</a></th> <td>18.94</td> <td>17.64</td> <td>37.46</td> <td>29.13</td> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">100s/50s</th> <td>0/1</td> <td>0/0</td> <td>27/92</td> <td>2/24</td> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">Top score</th> <td>55</td> <td>30<a href="/wiki/Not_out" title="Not out">*</a></td> <td>240</td> <td>135</td> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">Catches/<a href="/wiki/Stumped" title="Stumped">stumpings</a></th> <td>48/6</td> <td>41/2</td> <td>1056/53</td> <td>319/73</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2" style="display:none"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align: right">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/19346.html">ESPNcricinfo</a>, <span class="nowrap">1 July 2020</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Christopher Mark Wells Read</b> (born 10 August 1978) is an English former <a href="/wiki/Cricketer" class="mw-redirect" title="Cricketer">cricketer</a> who was the captain of <a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club">Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club</a>. He played for the <a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England cricket team</a> in 15 Tests and 36 ODIs. He was a wicket-keeper. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Read&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 4 November 2007 Read ran the New York City Marathon to raise money for Bowel Cancer UK in honour of his first cricket coach, Trevor Ward, who died of the disease. Read finished 4,358th out of over 38,000 runners. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Domestic_career">Domestic career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Read&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Domestic career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Read played for <a href="/wiki/Minor_Counties" class="mw-redirect" title="Minor Counties">Devon</a> in a <a href="/wiki/NatWest_Trophy" class="mw-redirect" title="NatWest Trophy">NatWest Trophy</a> match at the age of 16, and in 1997 made a single <a href="/wiki/National_League_(cricket)" class="mw-redirect" title="National League (cricket)">AXA Life League</a> appearance for <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Gloucestershire County Cricket Club">Gloucestershire</a>, claiming an <a href="/wiki/NBC_Denis_Compton_Award" title="NBC Denis Compton Award">NBC Denis Compton Award</a> that year. After an <a href="/wiki/England_Lions_cricket_team" title="England Lions cricket team">England A</a> tour to <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> in the winter - making his <a href="/wiki/First-class_cricket" title="First-class cricket">first-class</a> debut in <a href="/wiki/Nairobi" title="Nairobi">Nairobi</a> - Read was picked up by <a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club">Nottinghamshire</a> for the 1998 season. By June he had established himself in the side and he claimed 42 dismissals that summer as well as making 401 runs. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="County_years">County years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Read&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: County years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several years in the international wilderness followed, Read being overlooked in favour of first <a href="/wiki/Paul_Nixon" title="Paul Nixon">Paul Nixon</a> and then <a href="/wiki/James_Foster_(cricketer,_born_1980)" title="James Foster (cricketer, born 1980)">James Foster</a> as keeper-in-waiting in preparation for the retirement of <a href="/wiki/Alec_Stewart" title="Alec Stewart">Alec Stewart</a>. Left to concentrate on his <a href="/wiki/County_cricket" title="County cricket">county cricket</a> career, Read claimed 68 dismissals in 2002 and worked at his batting, that year <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(cricket)" title="Batting average (cricket)">averaging</a> nearly 35 with another hundred coming against <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Northamptonshire County Cricket Club">Northamptonshire</a>. He made a <a href="/wiki/One-day_cricket" class="mw-redirect" title="One-day cricket">one-day</a> century against the same opponents early in 2003 and with Stewart's retirement from international one-day cricket, he was recalled by <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="English cricket team">England</a> that year, playing in all ten ODIs. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_county_cricket">Return to county cricket</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Read&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Return to county cricket"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 2004 English season, Jones was preferred for the series against <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand cricket team">New Zealand</a> and West Indies in both Tests and One-Day Internationals, having made a century in the second Test of the New Zealand series. Read returned to Nottinghamshire and had by far his best season with the bat: he scored 807 first-class runs including two centuries, and averaged over 50. The selectors stuck with Jones, however, and by the summer of 2005 Read was not even second-choice keeper for England in ODIs, <a href="/wiki/Matt_Prior" title="Matt Prior">Matt Prior</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sussex_County_Cricket_Club" title="Sussex County Cricket Club">Sussex</a> being preferred for the role. Read was again overlooked in the squad for the winter tour of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, instead being selected for the second-tier <a href="/wiki/ECB_National_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="ECB National Academy">ECB National Academy</a> squad. As first choice wicket-keeper in the academy squad, Read got several opportunities to play, and had a successful tour, scoring 254 runs at an average of 66.25 in the West Indies before he had to prematurely return home to attend to a family emergency. </p><p>Read continued to be on the fringes of England squads, and was selected for the England 'A' team against the touring Pakistan side in 2006, off the back of a strong start to the county season which had seen him average 50 in both formats of the game. He took advantage of his selection, scoring an unbeaten 150 in the tour match. Soon after, <a href="/wiki/Geraint_Jones" title="Geraint Jones">Geraint Jones</a>, who had remained first choice for England despite a slump in batting form, broke a finger in the second Test match against Pakistan in 2006; the next day Read scored a rapid 72 against <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Natwest_Pro_40_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Natwest Pro 40 League">Natwest Pro 40 League</a> game. </p><p>In September 2007, Read took over as the captain of Nottinghamshire.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The team were promoted in the championship that summer and Read averaged 54.17 with the bat. In 2009 Read had an excellent season with Nottinghamshire, scoring 1,203 runs at an average of 75.18 including 4 centuries in first-class cricket. His form with the bat has largely continued since. </p><p>He averaged 45.80 in 2010, as he led the team to their sixth championship. In 2013 he top-scored with 53 off 52 balls as they won the <a href="/wiki/2013_Yorkshire_Bank_40" title="2013 Yorkshire Bank 40">2013 Yorkshire Bank 40</a> final. The next two years saw Read hit a purple patch, averaging 43.85 in 2014 and 51.35 in 2015 (topping the Nottinghamshire averages, and passing both 15,000 first-class runs and 1,000 first-class dismissals that season, with his 1000th dismissal being <a href="/wiki/Paul_Collingwood" title="Paul Collingwood">Paul Collingwood</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). This form wasn't sustained as Nottinghamshire were relegated in 2016. In March 2017, Read announced his plan to retire at the end of the season, after 20 years with the county, to become director of cricket at <a href="/wiki/Uppingham_School" title="Uppingham School">Uppingham School</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>]. In his final season, he led Nottinghamshire to promotion, secured in the last game when Read's 124 was crucial in getting Nottinghamshire the maximum batting points required to finish second. Nottinghamshire also won the <a href="/wiki/Royal_London_One_Day_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal London One Day Cup">Royal London One Day Cup</a> in 2017, under the captaincy of <a href="/wiki/Dan_Christian" title="Dan Christian">Dan Christian</a>, with Read scoring 58 off 57 balls in the final. </p><p>In July 2014, he played for the MCC side in the <a href="/wiki/Bicentenary_Celebration_match" title="Bicentenary Celebration match">Bicentenary Celebration match</a> at <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_career">International career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Read&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: International career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Debut_years">Debut years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Read&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Debut years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He toured <a href="/wiki/Zimbabwe" title="Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a> and South Africa with the A team the following winter, and in 1999 his maiden first-class century, a well-timed 160 against <a href="/wiki/Warwickshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Warwickshire County Cricket Club">Warwickshire</a>, brought him selection for the first <a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test</a> against <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand cricket team">New Zealand</a> at <a href="/wiki/Edgbaston_Cricket_Ground" title="Edgbaston Cricket Ground">Edgbaston</a>. Still not 21, Read made a good impression: although he failed with the bat, he claimed eight dismissals, six in the second innings alone. He was retained for <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a>, but suffered a very public embarrassment when he was bowled for zero, ducking what he thought was a beamer from <a href="/wiki/Chris_Cairns" title="Chris Cairns">Chris Cairns</a> but was in fact a well-disguised slower ball. 37 in the second innings was followed by another duck at <a href="/wiki/Old_Trafford_(cricket)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Trafford (cricket)">Old Trafford</a>, and he was dropped, though he did play in the 1999/2000 <a href="/wiki/One_Day_International" title="One Day International">One Day International</a> series in South Africa. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chris_Read_glove.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Chris_Read_glove.jpg/200px-Chris_Read_glove.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="380" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Chris_Read_glove.jpg/300px-Chris_Read_glove.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Chris_Read_glove.jpg 2x" data-file-width="337" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Read prepares for wicketkeeping practice at <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Oval" title="Adelaide Oval">Adelaide Oval</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_in_2004">Return in 2004</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Read&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Return in 2004"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Read was first-choice keeper for the 2003/04 tours and played in eight of the nine Tests that winter, against <a href="/wiki/Bangladeshi_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangladeshi cricket team">Bangladesh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan cricket team">Sri Lanka</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Indian_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="West Indian cricket team">West Indies</a>. However, for the final Test of the West Indies series, in <a href="/wiki/Antigua" title="Antigua">Antigua</a>, he was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Kent_County_Cricket_Club" title="Kent County Cricket Club">Kent</a> wicket-keeper <a href="/wiki/Geraint_Jones" title="Geraint Jones">Geraint Jones</a>. This would be the game in which <a href="/wiki/Brian_Lara" title="Brian Lara">Brian Lara</a> made his world-record score of 400 not out. Read was retained for the one-day squad however, winning the man-of-the match award in the first game of that series, for a quickfire unbeaten 27 in a rain-affected run chase. </p><p>On 31 July Read was recalled to the England squad as a replacement for Jones. Chairman of Selectors <a href="/wiki/David_Graveney" title="David Graveney">David Graveney</a> stressed that this was down to Jones' poor form with the bat rather than his injury. Read took advantage of the opportunity with 38 in the first innings of the 3rd Test against Pakistan, and then completing his first Test half-century, shepherding the tail in the second innings whilst making 55, to add to a sharp performance (four catches and a stumping) behind the wickets. Despite finishing the summer as first choice, Read was passed over for a 12-month central contract for 2007 - the England selectors deciding to keep their options open by not contracting any wicket-keeper. </p><p>Prior to the first Test in the 2006-2007 England Ashes tour of Australia, Read was dropped in favour of <a href="/wiki/Geraint_Jones" title="Geraint Jones">Geraint Jones</a>. England coach <a href="/wiki/Duncan_Fletcher" title="Duncan Fletcher">Duncan Fletcher</a> said that Jones would be "a better prospect for batting at number seven".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Notts Director of Cricket, Mick Newell, responded to Fletcher's decision by calling his selection "bizarre".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Read was selected to play for two tour matches for England between the Second and Third Tests. In the first, against Australia Chairman's XI, Read was dismissed for a duck. In the two-day match against Western Australia, Read scored 59 not out while Jones, playing as a batsman, went for a first ball duck.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under increased pressure, Jones retained his place for the third Test but failed to score in either innings - the first and second ducks of his Test career - leading to Read being selected for the fourth Test. Though he struggled with the bat in the final two Tests, he took 6 catches in the first innings of the fourth Test, becoming only the 3rd player in Test history to take 6 dismissals in an innings twice.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Read repeated that performance with another 6 dismissals in the first innings of the 5th Test in Sydney, making him the first, and so far only, keeper in Test history to achieve the feat in successive Tests. For the subsequent one-day tournament, and the following <a href="/wiki/2007_cricket_World_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="2007 cricket World Cup">World Cup</a>, Read was overlooked for selection, with <a href="/wiki/Paul_Nixon" title="Paul Nixon">Paul Nixon</a> taking over the wicketkeeper position. The following summer, the Test wicketkeeping position was given to <a href="/wiki/Matt_Prior" title="Matt Prior">Matt Prior</a>, who scored a century on his Test debut and retained his place for the subsequent one-day matches. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_best_performances">Career best performances</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Read&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Career best performances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Updated 9 September 2010</i> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="1"> </th> <th colspan="4" rowspan="1">Batting </th></tr> <tr> <th> </th> <th>Score </th> <th>Fixture </th> <th>Venue </th> <th>Season </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Tests</a> </td> <td align="center">55 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> v <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_national_cricket_team" title="Pakistan national cricket team">Pakistan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Headingley_Cricket_Ground" title="Headingley Cricket Ground">Headingley</a> </td> <td align="center">2006 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/One_Day_International" title="One Day International">ODI</a> </td> <td align="center">30* </td> <td><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> v <a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_cricket_team" title="South Africa national cricket team">South Africa</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Old_Trafford_Cricket_Ground" title="Old Trafford Cricket Ground">Old Trafford</a> </td> <td align="center">2003 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Twenty20_International" title="Twenty20 International">T20I</a> </td> <td align="center">13 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> v <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_national_cricket_team" title="Pakistan national cricket team">Pakistan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Cricket_Ground,_Bristol" class="mw-redirect" title="County Cricket Ground, Bristol">Bristol</a> </td> <td align="center">2006 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/First-class_cricket" title="First-class cricket">FC</a> </td> <td align="center">240 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club">Nottinghamshire</a> v <a href="/wiki/Essex_County_Cricket_Club" title="Essex County Cricket Club">Essex</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Cricket_Ground,_Chelmsford" title="County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford">Chelmsford</a> </td> <td align="center">2007 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/List_A_cricket" title="List A cricket">LA</a> </td> <td align="center">135 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club">Nottinghamshire</a> v <a href="/wiki/Durham_County_Cricket_Club" title="Durham County Cricket Club">Durham</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Trent_Bridge" title="Trent Bridge">Trent Bridge</a> </td> <td align="center">2006 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Twenty20_cricket" class="mw-redirect" title="Twenty20 cricket">T20</a> </td> <td align="center">58* </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club">Nottinghamshire</a> v <a href="/wiki/Lancashire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Lancashire County Cricket Club">Lancashire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Old_Trafford_Cricket_Ground" title="Old Trafford Cricket Ground">Old Trafford</a> </td> <td align="center">2009 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Read&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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