Category: County cricket

< 1 minute readIt’s worth squeezing in a wedger of a County Championship update, what with Durham having won the title and all. They have 10 wins and two draws from 15 matches and completely deserve their damp September glory. These aren’t necessarily final standings. Most teams still have a match and a

2 minute readThis really got away from us. Not particularly looking forward to writing this update, it must be said. 1st – Durham Okay, Durham weren’t even in the top three the last time we did this in, er, July. Let’s try and work out how they’ve done this. Battered Derbyshire Soundly

< 1 minute readThis County Championship coverage is hanging by a thread. Honestly. By. A. Thread. 1st – Yorkshire Yorkshire now have an eight-point lead. Like Sussex in our last round-up, they failed to beat Surrey and had to make do with a draw. We may at some point have to consider the

< 1 minute readChampions Trophy, Ashes build-up… Must. Try. And keep on top of. County Championship. 1st – Yorkshire Middlesex and Yorkshire were equal on points last time we did a County Championship update. They’ve played each other since then and Yorkshire won by 10 wickets. Hundreds were scored by Andrew Gale and

< 1 minute readSame teams as last week. Slightly different order. 1st – Sussex Sussex remain top. A draw with Nottinghamshire just about crept into this week’s update. Highly efficient eating device, Samit Patel, made 157 for Nottinghamshire in that match, while highly efficient wicket-gathering device, Chris Jordan, took nine wickets for Sussex.

< 1 minute readWe missed a week. We’re not apologising. 1st – Sussex Sussex have moved into the top spot after positively obliterating Somerset last week. The central figure was 33-year-old Aussie seamer, Steve Magoffin, who returned positively ludicrous match figures of 12-31. Those numbers look so unfamiliar as bowling figures you’re inclined

2 minute readYou may have thought that we’d forgotten about our weekly County Championship round-up, what with there having been a Test match and all. However, you didn’t count on the nagging feeling of guilt that jolted our memory. In truth, our subsconscious is largely just a complex web woven from different

2 minute readYou should probably stop paying attention to the section at the end of these posts where we tell you what’s happening in the coming week. Last week we said the top four teams were all playing in matches starting on Wednesday. Turns out only one match started that day and