English County Championship Division 1

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Established
1890 (136 years old)

First Recorded Event
2009-04-15

Current Season
2024

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Location
England

Gender
Male

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07 Jun	SurreySurrey	12:00am	HampshirHampshire
12 Jun	YorkshirYorkshire	7:00am	WarwicksWarwickshire
12 Jun	SussexSussex	7:00am	GlamorgaGlamorgan
12 Jun	LeicesteLeicestershire	12:00am	EssexEssex
12 Jun	NottinghNottinghamshire	12:00am	SomersetSomerset
19 Jun	SomersetSomerset	7:00am	WarwicksWarwickshire
19 Jun	GlamorgaGlamorgan	7:00am	SurreySurrey
19 Jun	EssexEssex	7:00am	NottinghNottinghamshire
19 Jun	SussexSussex	12:00am	HampshirHampshire
19 Jun	LeicesteLeicestershire	12:00am	YorkshirYorkshire
Results
15 May	EssexEssex	397 - 393	LeicesteLeicestershire
15 May	HampshirHampshire	421 - 229	NottinghNottinghamshire
15 May	WarwicksWarwickshire	352 - 619	GlamorgaGlamorgan
15 May	YorkshirYorkshire	486 - 359	SurreySurrey
15 May	SomersetSomerset	526 - 366	SussexSussex
08 May	SussexSussex	561 - 555	LeicesteLeicestershire
08 May	GlamorgaGlamorgan	514 - 511	SomersetSomerset
08 May	NottinghNottinghamshire	829 - 449	SurreySurrey
08 May	WarwicksWarwickshire	700 - 323	YorkshirYorkshire
08 May	EssexEssex	451 - 449	HampshirHampshire

Description

The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales. The competition consists of eighteen clubs named after, and originally representing, historic counties, seventeen from England and one from Wales. From 2016, the Championship will be sponsored by Specsavers, who replaced Liverpool Victoria after 14 years.

Until 1890, the concept of an unofficial championship existed whereby various claims would be made by or on behalf of a particular club as the "Champion County", an archaic term which now has the specific meaning of an unofficial claimant for the County Championship title prior to 1890. In contrast, the term "County Champions" applies in common parlance to a team that has won the official title since 1890.

The most usual means of claiming the unofficial title was by popular or press acclaim. In the majority of cases, the claim or proclamation was retrospective, often by cricket writers using reverse analysis via a study of known results. The unofficial title was not proclaimed in every season up to 1889 because in many cases there were not enough matches or there was simply no clear candidate. Having already been badly hit by the Seven Years' War, county cricket ceased altogether during the Napoleonic Wars and there was a period from 1797 to 1824 during which no inter-county matches took place. The concept of the unofficial title has been utilised ad hoc and relied on sufficient interest being shown.

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