Joshua Peck picks his dream XI from the County Championship Division One with surprise title winners Essex making up over a third of the selections

Joshua Peck

It doesn’t feel like it was over six months ago now that we were all on the edge of our seats as the County Championship was getting ready to get underway again, does it?
But here we are, thousands of runs and hundreds of wickets later, closing the curtain on another wonderful season of first-class cricket.
Essex, who many tipped as dark horses but few expected to actually challenge, romped to the title wit...