04-04-2025
County cricket opening day: Essex v Surrey, Middlesex v Lancs, and more
Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature County Championship 2025: team-by-team guide to the new season Share
The County Ground: Derbyshire v Gloucestershire
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Leicestershire
Lord's: Middlesex v Lancashire
Wantage Road: Northamptonshire v Kent Share
Chelmsford: Essex v Surrey
Southampton: Hampshire v Yorkshire
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire v Durham
Taunton: Somerset v Worcestershire
Edgbaston: Warwickshire v Sussex Share
Good morning! It's April 4 2025 and round the scaffolding view from my Chelmsford Premier Inn window, and the sky is blue. Yes, it's back, the County Championship, this coulntry's oldest
If you're a regular to this blog– welcome back! Hope the trials and tribulations of winter haven't been too taxing. If you're new here, come on in, the water's lovely.
Readers regularly chat about the cricket, and life, underneath the blog (BTL – below the line) please join in. Somewhere is a glossary of terms used by older hands which I'll link to when I find it.
The players are out in the middle, footballs are being kicked, ru-uthe odd woolly hat but also shorts hat but some shorts off to try and find a filter coffee from somewhere, back soon! Share
