Description: Pictured (left to right) are (back row) G Brampton, R Daft, J Jackson, G Parr, J Johnson (Hon. Sec.), J Grundy, W Oscroft, J C Shaw and S Biddulph. (Front row) G Wooton, R C Tinley, A Shaw and T Bignall. In 1859 a local solicitor, John Johnson, took it upon himself to inject some sense and order into the haphazard Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. He induced the subscribers to elect a proper committee, he arranged a few inter-county games and he had built, at the back of the Inn, a single storey brick pavilion. In 1861 he introduced the idea of an Easter Colts trial, in which 22 young players were invited to play a two-day game against the Notts 1st XI and prizes were given for the best batting and bowling by a colt. It had been clear from William Clarke's days in the 1830s that the county of Nottingham possessed some of the most talented cricketers in England. Johnson was keen to harness this ability. He was fortunate that he had, in Clarke's successor, George Parr, the best batsman in England, and in John Jackson the most feared of fast bowlers (both are pictured here).