2015 County Championship Explained
The 2015 County Championship season, known as the LV= County Championship for sponsorship reasons,[1] was the 116th 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 | John Hastings |
Hampshire | The Rose Bowl, Southampton | — | Dale Benkenstein | Jimmy Adams (Apr-Jul) James Vince (Jul-Sep) | Jackson Bird (Apr-Aug) Ryan McLaren (Aug-Sep) |
Middlesex | Lord's, London | Merchant Taylors' School Ground, Northwood Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground, Uxbridge | Richard Scott | Adam Voges (Apr–May) James Franklin (May–Sep) | Adam Voges (Apr–May) Joe Burns (May–Jul) |
Nottinghamshire | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | — | Mick Newell | Chris Read | Vernon Philander (Apr–May) Ben Hilfenhaus (Jun–Sep) |
Somerset | County Ground, Taunton | — | Matthew Maynard | Marcus Trescothick | Abdur Rehman |
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 | Varun Chopra | Jeetan Patel |
Worcestershire | County Ground, New Road, Worcester | — | Steve Rhodes | Daryl Mitchell | Sachithra Senanayake (Apr–May) Colin Munro (May–Jun) Saeed Ajmal |
Yorkshire | Headingley, Leeds | North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough | Jason Gillespie | Andrew Gale | Cheteshwar Pujara (Apr–May) Glenn Maxwell (May–Jun) Aaron Finch (Jun–Sep) | |
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 | Martin Guptill (Apr) Hashim Amla (May) Tillakaratne Dilshan (May–Sep) |
Essex | County Ground, Chelmsford | Castle Park Cricket Ground, Colchester | Paul Grayson | James Foster | Jesse Ryder |
Glamorgan | SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff | Penrhyn Avenue, Rhos-on-Sea St Helen's, Swansea | Toby Radford | Jacques Rudolph | Jacques Rudolph |
Gloucestershire | County Ground, Bristol | College Ground, Cheltenham | Richard Dawson | Geraint Jones | Peter Handscomb (Apr–May) Michael Klinger (May–Sep) |
Kent | St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury | Kent County Cricket Ground, Beckenham Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells | Jimmy Adams | Rob Key | — |
Lancashire | Old Trafford, Manchester | Trafalgar Road Ground, Southport | Ashley Giles | Glen Chapple | Peter Siddle (Apr–May) James Faulkner (May–Jun) |
Leicestershire | Grace Road, Leicester | — | Andrew McDonald | Mark Cosgrove | Clint McKay |
Northamptonshire | County Ground, Northampton | — | David Ripley | Alex Wakely | Rory Kleinveldt |
Surrey | The Oval, London | Woodbridge Road, Guildford | Graham Ford | Gareth Batty | Kumar Sangakkara | |
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 One
- Yorkshire were Champions of Division One with a record points total (in a 16-game championship) and record wins. Sussex and Worcestershire were relegated to County Championship Division Two.
- Middlesex were deducted 1 point for slow over rate.
Division Two
- Surrey were County Championship Division Two Champions and are promoted to County Championship Division One alongside Lancashire, who finished in 2nd place.
- Derbyshire deducted 1 point for slow over rate, Northamptonshire deducted 2 points for slow over rate, Leicestershire deducted 16 points by ECB Disciplinary panel.
Results summary
The first fixtures began on 12 April 2015. The final set of fixtures commenced on 22 September 2015.[3]
Division One
Division Two
Results in full
Division One
September
Division Two
September
Statistics
Division One
Most runs
Most wickets
Division Two
Most runs
Most wickets
width=125 | Player | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Overs | width=60 | Wickets | width=60 | Average | width=60 | BBI | width=60 | 5W | width=60 | 10W |
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Tom Curran | | 16 | 544.4 | 76 | 23.07 | 7/20 | 5 | 1 |
Mark Footitt | | 16 | 537.4 | 76 | 23.63 | 7/71 | 5 | 1 |
Matt Coles | | 14 | 433.0 | 67 | 23.49 | 6/55 | 2 | 1 |
Kyle Jarvis | | 13 | 450.5 | 62 | 24.72 | 5/13 | 4 | 0 |
Darren Stevens | | 15 | 419.1 | 61 | 20.36 | 5/58 | 2 | 0 |
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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.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/county-championship-division-one/fixtures BBC Sport
- Web site: LV= County Championship Division One, 2015 / Records / Most runs. ESPNcricinfo. 25 August 2015.
- Web site: LV= County Championship Division One, 2015 / Records / Most wickets. ESPNcricinfo. 10 August 2015.
- Web site: LV= County Championship Division Two, 2015 / Records / Most runs. ESPNcricinfo. 25 August 2015.
- Web site: LV= County Championship Division Two, 2015 / Records / Most wickets. ESPNcricinfo. 25 August 2015.