By Joshua Peck

24 PAGE SPECIAL PREVIEW

WHILE Andy Williams proudly proclaimed Christmas as ‘the most wonderful time of the year’, for all us cricket lovers, this is the moment we first look for on the calendar.
The first-class season has already begun with runs being scored and wickets being taken up and down the country in the university fixtures this week, but the County Championship gets underway a week today.
Reigning champions Middlesex don’t feature in the first round, though they have just returned from Dubai where they scraped to a one-wicket v...