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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review –Warwickshire
Fifth place was fair reward for Warwickshire with a determined effort across the year, and reflected well on the calm leadership...
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Essex
It was a disappointing season for Essex in the County Championship. An improved second half meant the threat of relegation never...
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Yorkshire
Yorkshire got what they deserved in the County Championship finish. Their close proximity to fourth place, yet going into the season’s...
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Hampshire
Hampshire are very lucky to be playing once more in the first division next season. Only a Durham meltdown at Yorkshire...
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Durham
It’s been a dreadful season for Durham. They only won two games in the County Championship and managed to grab relegation...
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Worcestershire
Worcestershire finished bottom of the Division One table. The bowling attack stuck to the task well throughout the season, but the...
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Leicestershire
Outstanding in the County Championship Division Two. Winning five out of the first eight matches, including four in a row, all...
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Glamorgan
An excellent season to earn promotion, made all the sweeter by the recovery from a dreadful start to a 10-match unbeaten...
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Derbyshire
Having won one match in the previous two seasons combined and finished bottom of the table in 2024, Derbyshire’s Championship campaign...
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Middlesex
Middlesex will be massively frustrated, but with the resources available to them that they did not mount to a better promotion...
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Lancashire
Ultimately, it’s been a very disappointing season for Lancashire in Division Two, but it ended better than it started.
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Gloucestershire
It has been another curate’s egg of a season for Gloucestershire. One large plus is that they’ve shown that they can...
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Northamptonshire
Second-from-bottom in Division Two – with, for the fourth season running, just two victories – was clearly a disappointment for Northamptonshire.
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County Championships
/ 5 months agoCounty by County 2025 season review – Kent
A fantastic start that promised a fight for promotion, descended into a devastating injury list and poor form as Kent ended...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 5 months agoIn Review: The Hundred hits heights on the pitch with uncertainty off it
Adam Hopkins on the latest incarnation that horrifies county stalwarts.
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England News
/ 5 months agoIn Review: Mercurial England continue to bewitch and bewilder
Phil Walker revisits another unpredictable and compulsively watchable summer trying to keep up with England’s men’s teams
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoEDWARDS ERA MAKES STUTTERING START
Jo Harman-McGowan on a mixed bag of a summer for England’s women After a miserable 2024 T20 World Cup and an...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoNOTTS GET IT DONE
At the end of a vintage season in the top flight, Phil Walker looks back on a finale of thrilling finishes...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoMOORES THE MERRIER AT CHAMPIONS NOT TS
By Richard Edwards “THAT’S THE big question,” says Peter Moores, laughing, when The Cricket Paper asks him if he’s still young...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoTHE RISE OF THE UNDERDOG
Phil Walker sees the little guys come out on top Leicestershire and Glamorgan will play first-division cricket next year after they...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoWorcestershire take a thriller as youth makes its mark
Adam Hopkins looks back on an emotional end to a brilliant competition Worcestershire made up for their Championship misfortunes with a...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoLewis propels Lancashire to cup double
Jo Harman-McGowan sees the Red Rose end the season as they started, with a cup win Atournament which began in the...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoSlick Somerset reassert their dominance
Jo Harman-McGowan on a thrilling season of Blast cricket As discussions about how the Blast might look from 2026 continued through...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoLancs and Surrey set T20 pace for new women’s era
Adam Hopkins says the T20 County Cup and Women’s T20 Blast proved to be the perfect stages for future England stars...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoThe ECB Premier Leagues’ top performers in 2025
WITH WINTER approaching and a plethora of amateur and professional players flocking en masse to the Antipodes in search of cricket...
County Championships
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ICC Champions Trophy
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