
County Championship Division One and Two previews
Thursday will see the opening day of the third round of county championship matches with the weather starting to get increasingly warmer.
Thursday will see the opening day of the third round of county championship matches with the weather starting to get increasingly warmer.
Embed from Getty Images The second round of County Championship matches commence on Thursday with the four days spread over…
The brand new County Championship cricket season opened in traditional weather- cold, windy and in some places wet. This season the competition returns back to the familiar format of two divisions, One and Two.
The 122nd County Championship season will commence on Thursday 7th April and will run through until 29th September. This season the ECB decided that it will revert back to the format of two divisions, with ten teams in Division One and eight in Division Two.
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Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan combined to help Pakistan win an exhilarating encounter at Trent Bridge in spite of Liam Livingstone’s first international century.
Joe Root’s measured 79 not-out was enough to steer England to victory against an improved Sri Lanka side at the Emirates Riverside.
An heroic seventh-wicket partnership between Ben Cox and Ed Barnard guided Worcestershire to a draw against Derbyshire on tense final day.
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