First Class Archive

County Championship 2012: The Week That Just About Was

Despite, or due to, the rain there were tight finishes, dramatic collapses and some deal-making that would have made Noel Edmonds proud. Here’s our round-up of the latest week in the County Championship.

County Championship 2012: England Watch

With over a quarter of the County Championship over already, it’s time to take a glance at the performances of some players who might be harbouring England ambitions.

County Championship 2012: Still Raining, Still Dreaming

Not a great week for the County Championship, this one – plenty of rain and some genuinely awful batting. Still, at least we’re not dead, which is more than can be said for Jimi Hendrix.

County Championship 2012: The Week That Was Wet

If last week’s round of the County Championship was “disappointing”, this week’s can best be described as “very disappointing” as Mother Nature didn’t so much mock the ECB’s fixture compiler as bully, torment and flush its head down the toilet.

County Championship 2012: The Week That Nearly Wasn’t

The third set of County Championship fixtures were largely ruined by the weather. On the plus side, this just gives us more space to talk about One Direction, Martin Guptill’s foot and whether Eoin Morgan is alive or dead.

County Championship 2012: The Week That Really Was

Week Two of the Championship contained a lot of tremendously awful batting as everyone seems to have forgotten how to play proper cricket during the winter.

County Championship 2012: The Week That Was

The first week of the 2012 County Championship season saw Amjad Khan amongst the wickets and Leicestershire winning a game. So basically the exact opposite of everything we predicted.

County Cricket 2012: Predicting the Unpredictable

Last week we presented our previews of the county cricket season, divided appropriately between Division One and Division Two. Following on from these guides, some of the 51allout staff met (or did we?) for a pre-season discussion and to make some predictions.

County Cricket 2012: Division Two

We now turn our attention to the County Championship Division Two. Who’s your money on?

County Cricket 2012: Division One

Is it that time of year already? Lambs in the field, blossom on the trees, extra ice cubes in our G&Ts and the sound of cricketers everywhere retreiving their kitbags from the attic and smacking their foreheads in annoyance when they realise they left half a sandwich underneath their pads all winter.

In a twist on the usual mode of starting with the dregs and finishing with the best, we turn first to the County Championship Division One and give our thoughts on each team’s prospects for the season. For any pedants out there, we’re mainly talking Pro40 and the First-Class season, we’ll cover the T20s in much more detail when they come around later in the year.