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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.
The earliest known inter-county match was in 1709 between Kent and Surrey but match results are unknown until the 1720s. The first time a source refers to the superiority of one county is in respect of a match between Edwin Stead 's XI from Kent and Sir William Gage 's XI from Sussex at Penshurst Park in August 1728.
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 2024 English cricket season commenced on 5 April and finished on 29 September 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was the 124th season in which the County Championship has been an official competition and featured First-Class , List-A , and Twenty20 cricket competitions throughout England and Wales.
The first Minor County to beat a first-class county in the Gillette Cup was Durham: in 1973, the county beat Yorkshire at Harrogate by five wickets. [1] In all, 10 Minor Counties sides beat first-class opposition up to 2005 (and three other sides, Ireland, Scotland and Holland, also beat first-class counties).
In July 2022, the India men's cricket team toured England to play 1 Test match, three ODIs and three T20Is. The Test match, won by England, was a continuation of the 2021 series between the same sides, which was curtailed due to COVID-19 cases in the Indian camp. [16] India won both the ODI series and the T20I series 2–1. [17]
Why faster bowlers can struggle in county cricket Brydon Carse took match figures of 10-106 against New Zealand in the first Test [Getty Images] It is a misconception every pitch in the County ...
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.