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The County Championship is an annual first-class cricket league competition for county cricket clubs in England and Wales. The league is contested on a round-robin basis and the championship awarded to the team that is top of the league at the end of the season. Surrey County Cricket Club are the current champions, claiming the title in the ...
The County Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Rothesay County Championship, [citation needed] is the only domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales. Established in 1890, it is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as a two-league system .
These honours consist of the County Championship, the Royal London One-Day Cup, the Friends Provident Trophy, the Benson & Hedges Cup and the T20 Blast and their various former incarnations. The County Championship's first season was 1890, [1] and was the sole competition in county cricket for more than seventy years. The competition began with ...
The 2024 County Championship (referred to as the Vitality County Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 124th County Championship cricket season in England and Wales. [1] As in 2023, Division One had ten teams and Division Two had eight teams. The season began on 5 April and ended on 29 September 2024.
Inter-county cricket matches have been played since the early 18th century, involving teams that are representative of the historic counties of England and Wales.Since the late 19th century, there have been two county championship competitions played at different levels: the County Championship, a first-class competition which involves eighteen first-class county clubs among which seventeen ...
The 1969 County Championship was the 70th officially organised running of the County Championship. [1] Glamorgan won the Championship title in a season which saw games played reduced from 28 to 24. [ 2 ]
The 2023 County Championship (referred to as the LV= Insurance County Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 123rd cricket County Championship season in England and Wales. [1] As in 2022, Division One had ten teams and Division Two had eight teams. [2] The season started on 6 April and finished on 29 September 2023.
The 1967 County Championship was the 68th officially organised running of the County Championship. [1] Yorkshire won their second consecutive Championship title. The method of obtaining points changed again for a second successive year: [2] 8 points for a win; 4 points for a tie; 4 points for a team batting first in a drawn match with scores level