[4] Their main ground (Rutland Sports Park) has a proud history of annually hosting 1st Class recreation matches between 1925 – 1994.

[5] In 1977, the ground hosted Derbyshire's Gillette Cup quarter-final tie against a Somerset side which included Ian Botham, Viv Richards and Joel Garner, when on an extremely hot day, 11,000 spectators packed into the ground.

[6] Ilkeston Rutland Cricket Club was formed in 1829, and led a peripatetic existence for its first 100 years.

[2] The earliest known record of a cricket ground for Ilkeston was a field near to Lawn Cottage, Pimlico, donated by the Duke of Rutland.

[2] In 1914 George V visited Ilkeston and the land was finally passed to the authority and the ground extended.