2014 County Championship Explained
The 2014 County Championship season, known as the LV= County Championship for sponsorship reasons,[1] was the 115th cricket County Championship season. It was contested through two divisions: Division One and Division Two. Each team played all the others in their division both home and away.
Teams
Division One
Team promoted from Division Two
Team | Primary home ground | Other grounds | Coach | Captain | Overseas player(s) |
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Durham | Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street | — | Jon Lewis | Paul Collingwood | Kumar Sangakkara (May) John Hastings (Jun–Sep) Varun Aaron (Sep) |
Lancashire | Old Trafford, Manchester | Aigburth, Liverpool | Peter Moores (Apr) Glen Chapple (Apr–Sep) | Glen Chapple | Usman Khawaja (Jun–Sep) Junaid Khan (Sep) |
Middlesex | Lord's, London | Merchant Taylors' School Ground, Northwood Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground, Uxbridge Richmond Cricket Ground, Richmond | Richard Scott | Chris Rogers | Chris Rogers |
Northamptonshire | County Ground, Northampton | — | David Ripley | Stephen Peters | Ian Butler (May) Richard Levi (Jun–Jul) Neil Wagner (Aug–Sep) |
Nottinghamshire | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | — | Mick Newell | Chris Read | Peter Siddle (Apr–Jul) |
Somerset | County Ground, Taunton | — | Dave Nosworthy | Marcus Trescothick | Alviro Petersen (Apr–Jul) Colin Ingram (Jul) |
Sussex | County Ground, Hove | Arundel Castle Cricket Club Ground, Arundel Cricket Field Road Ground, Horsham | Mark Robinson | Ed Joyce | Steve Magoffin |
Warwickshire | Edgbaston, Birmingham | — | Dougie Brown | Jim Troughton | Jeetan Patel |
Yorkshire | Headingley, Leeds | North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough | Jason Gillespie | Andrew Gale | Kane Williamson (Apr–May, Aug) Aaron Finch (May–Jul) | |
Division Two
Team relegated from Division One
Team | Primary home ground | Other grounds | Coach | Captain | Overseas player(s) |
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Derbyshire | County Ground, Derby | Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Graeme Welch | Wayne Madsen | Shivnarine Chanderpaul (Apr–May, Jul) Marcus North (May–Jun) Cheteshwar Pujara (Sep) |
Essex | County Ground, Chelmsford | Castle Park Cricket Ground, Colchester | Paul Grayson | James Foster | Jesse Ryder (May–Sep) |
Glamorgan | SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff | Penrhyn Avenue, Rhos-on-Sea St Helen's, Swansea | Toby Radford | Mark Wallace | Jacques Rudolph |
Gloucestershire | County Ground, Bristol | College Ground, Cheltenham | John Bracewell | Michael Klinger | Michael Klinger (Apr–Jul) Mark Craig (Aug) |
Hampshire | The Rose Bowl, Southampton | — | Dale Benkenstein | Jimmy Adams | Kyle Abbott (Apr–Jun) Glenn Maxwell (Jun) Nathan Rimmington (Jul) |
Kent | St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury | Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells | Jimmy Adams | Rob Key | Doug Bollinger |
Leicestershire | Grace Road, Leicester | — | Phil Whitticase | Ramnaresh Sarwan | Ramnaresh Sarwan (May–Jun) |
Surrey | The Oval, London | Woodbridge Road, Guildford | Graham Ford | Graeme Smith | Graeme Smith (Apr–May) Hashim Amla (May–Jun) Tillakaratne Dilshan (Jun–Aug) |
Worcestershire | County Ground, New Road, Worcester | — | Steve Rhodes | Daryl Mitchell | Saeed Ajmal (Apr–Jul) Mitchell McClenaghan (Jul–Sep) | |
Standings
Teams receive 16 points for a win, 8 for a tie and 5 for a draw. Bonus points (a maximum of 5 batting points and 3 bowling points) may be scored during the first 110 overs of each team's first innings.[2]
Division Two
Results summary
The fixtures for 2014 were announced in November 2013.[3]
Division One
Division Two
Results in full
Division One
September
Division Two
September
Statistics
Division One
Most runs
width=125 | Player | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Innings | width=60 | Runs | width=60 | Average | width=60 | HS | width=60 | 100s | width=60 | 50s |
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Adam Lyth | | 16 | 23 | 1489 | 67.68 | 251 | 6 | 6 |
Ed Joyce | | 14 | 23 | 1398 | 66.57 | | 7 | 3 |
Chris Rogers | | 15 | 28 | 1333 | 55.54 | | 4 | 4 |
Riki Wessels | | 16 | 29 | 1197 | 47.88 | 158 | 1 | 8 |
Ashwell Prince | | 16 | 28 | 1160 | 42.96 | | 3 | 3 |
Source:[4] |
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Most wickets
Division Two
Most runs
width=125 | Player | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Innings | width=60 | Runs | width=60 | Average | width=60 | HS | width=60 | 100s | width=60 | 50s |
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James Vince | | 16 | 28 | 1525 | 61.00 | 240 | 4 | 7 |
Daryl Mitchell | | 16 | 27 | 1334 | 58.00 | | 5 | 4 |
Alex Gidman | | 16 | 29 | 1277 | 47.29 | 264 | 4 | 3 |
James Adams | | 16 | 29 | 1215 | 43.39 | 231 | 1 | 8 |
Will Smith | | 16 | 27 | 1187 | 51.60 | | 2 | 6 |
Source:[6] |
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Most wickets
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: LV= extends County Championship deal. https://archive.today/20120730230047/http://www.ecb.co.uk/ecb/about-ecb/media-releases/lv-extends-county-championship-deal,317234,EN.html?Pf=com.otherobjects.cms.model.structure.Folder-L-28. dead. 30 July 2012. England and Wales Cricket Board. 21 March 2012. 17 April 2012.
- Web site: LV= County Championship - Scoring of points. England and Wales Cricket Board. 1 June 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140602194849/http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/domestic/lv-county-championship/liverpool-victoria-county-championship-scoring-of-points. 2 June 2014. dead. dmy-all.
- Web site: County schedule for 2014 announced. England and Wales Cricket Board. 26 November 2013. 25 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140201092412/http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/articles/county-schedule-2014-announced. 2014-02-01. dead.
- Web site: LV= County Championship Division One, 2014 - Records - Most runs. ESPNcricinfo. 12 September 2014.
- Web site: LV= County Championship Division One, 2014 - Records - Most wickets. ESPNcricinfo. 12 September 2014.
- Web site: LV= County Championship Division Two, 2014 - Records - Most runs. ESPNcricinfo. 12 September 2014.
- Web site: LV= County Championship Division Two, 2014 - Records - Most wickets. ESPNcricinfo. 12 September 2014.