By Ben Bloom

Time to pause. For many domestic cricket supporters, the past seven weeks of continuous County Championship action has been bliss – an all-too-brief throwback to a bygone era of red-ball dominance.
But as attention turns to the less taxing endeavours of the T20 Blast, many players and coaches across the 18 counties will be relieved to see the most demanding period of the season behind them. A period of relative respite beckons.
While no club had to navigate the same exhausting challenge as Durham at the start of the 2022 campaign – when they played every week for the opening ...