Key events
Warwickshire are the 2026 Champions !
Scores on the doors
Division One
Cardiff: Glamorgan 505 v Essex 129 and 331-5
Utilita: Sussex 244 & 319-9 BEAT Hampshire 128 and 238 by 197 runs
Trent Bridge: Yorkshire 179 and 159-9 BEAT Nottinghamshire 251 & 85 by one wicket
Taunton: Somerset 691-8 v Surrey 422
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 372 BEAT Leicestershire 125 & 168 by an innings and 79 runs to win the Championship.
Division Two
Canterbury: Kent 353 and 120-2 BEAT Gloucestershire 229 and 241 by eight wickets and are promoted
Old Trafford: Lancashire 267-5 v Durham 493
Lord’s: Middlesex 255 and 134-3 BEAT Northamptonshire 103 & 285 by seven wickets
New Road: Worcestershire 214 and 206 BEAT Derbyshire 88 and 157 by 175 runs
Preamble
Good morning for one final time this season and welcome to the morning after the day before. We have our Champions, all hail the mighty Bears, our promoted clubs, Kent and Durham, and our sad duo bound for Division Two, Hampshire and Leicestershire.
The Manchester sky is slate, the air sea-spray damp but, like my stoical geraniums, there’s just about enough life for one more day.
Three games plod on, a slow draw at Old Trafford, a high-scoring not-this-year goodbye at Taunton and a more intriguing match at Sophia Gardens where great escapees Essex have made a better fist of their second innings.
We’ll be keeping an eye on all those, but also looking back over the summer, to the hat-tricks, the hundreds, the hiccups and the howlers.
Do join us this sweet-melancholy morning.
