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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 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 County Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Vitality County Championship, [3] 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 .
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 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.
There are currently twenty teams in National Counties cricket: nineteen representing historic counties of England, plus the Wales National County Cricket Club. Of the 39 historic counties of England, 17 have a first-class county cricket team (the 18th first-class county is Glamorgan in Wales) and 19 participate in the National Counties ...
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 tournament was named the Bob Willis Trophy [1] in honour of former England cricket captain and fast bowler Bob Willis, who died in December 2019. [ 2 ] While in 2020 it was promoted as being a one-off competition, [ 3 ] the Bob Willis Trophy was contested again in 2021 as a five-day final between the top two teams in County Championship ...