County Championship: Pick your team of 2025 season

Dom Sibley was the first batter to reach 1,000 Championship runs this summer and hit 305 against Durham in June

The evenings are drawing in, the big coats are out of the attic, and supermarkets are packed with Halloween paraphernalia.

It must mean we are in the dying embers of another County Championship cricket season, but who have been your standout performers in 2025?

With Nottinghamshire in pole position to win the title going into the final round of games, will you select their opening pair of Haseeb Hameed and Ben Slater?

Could James Coles or Rehan Ahmed make the team as your all-rounder? Will Kyle Abbott or Jamie Porter find favour as a pace option?

Pick your XI from the players listed below and we will collate all the votes before publishing an overall team of 2025 later in the week.

Just to get you started, here are the sides selected for the past two seasons:

2024: Rory Burns (Surrey), Alex Davies (Warwickshire), Colin Ingram (Glamorgan), David Bedingham (Durham), Jordan Cox (Essex), James Bracey (Gloucestershire), Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Jack Carson (Sussex), Dan Worrall (Surrey), Jamie Porter (Essex), Ben Coad (Yorkshire).

2023: Alex Lees (Durham), Jake Libby (Worcestershire), Josh Bohannon (Lancashire), Tom Westley (Essex), James Rew (Somerset), Leus du Plooy (Derbyshire), Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Simon Harmer (Essex), Jordan Clark (Surrey), Brett Hutton (Nottinghamshire), Jamie Porter (Essex).

Teams must include two openers, three middle-order batters, one wicketkeeper, one all-rounder, one spinner and three seam bowlers.

Players needed to have featured in at least six games this season to make our shortlist, and all statistics are correct up to and including Saturday, 20 September.

Voting will close at 12:00 BST on Friday, 26 September.

Opening batters

Haseeb Hameed's Nottinghamshire side are 14 points clear at the top of Division One going into the final round of games

Haseeb Hameed (Nottinghamshire) 1,131 runs, average 62.83, three centuries, five half-centuries

Dom Sibley (Surrey) 1,223 runs, average 64.36, four centuries, six half-centuries

Adam Lyth (Yorkshire) 1,104 runs, average 50.18, three centuries, five half-centuries

Jake Libby (Worcestershire) 988 runs, average 44.90, four centuries, one half-century

Alex Lees (Durham) 929 runs, average 44.23, three centuries, three half-centuries

Ben Slater (Nottinghamshire) 963 runs, average 43.77, one century, nine half-centuries

Ben Compton (Kent) 1,275 runs, average 60.71, five centuries, two half-centuries

Caleb Jewell (Derbyshire) 1,005 runs, average 47.85, one century, eight half-centuries

Select two of these players to open the batting.

Middle-order batters

Dan Lawrence (Surrey) 839 runs, average 55.93, two centuries, five half-centuries

Tom Abell (Somerset) 1,022 runs, average 51.10, three centuries, five half-centuries

Marcus Harris (Lancashire) 1,027 runs, average 60.41, three centuries, five half-centuries

Jack Haynes (Nottinghamshire) 825 runs, average 43.42, four centuries, one half-century

Colin Ingram (Glamorgan) 1,026 runs, average 60.35, three centuries, seven half-centuries

Wayne Madsen (Derbyshire) 960 runs, average 50.52, three centuries, five half-centuries

Saif Zaib (Northamptonshire) 1,305 runs, average 65.25, six centuries, five half-centuries

Select three of these players to bat in your middle order.

Wicketkeepers

Worcestershire wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick has the most dismissals in the County Championship so far this summer

James Rew (Somerset) 960 runs, average 45.71, three centuries, four half-centuries, 37 dismissals

John Simpson (Sussex) 952 runs, average 56.00, three centuries, four half-centuries, 50 dismissals

James Bracey (Gloucestershire) 950 runs, average 52.77, three centuries, two half-centuries, 45 dismissals

Gareth Roderick (Worcestershire) 673 runs, average 29.26, one century, four half-centuries, 56 dismissals

Michael Pepper (Essex) 799 runs, average 44.38, three centuries, three half-centuries, 39 dismissals

Ben Brown (Hampshire) 732 runs, average 45.75, two centuries, two half-centuries, 39 dismissals

Lewis McManus (Northamptonshire) 578 runs, average 30.42, four half-centuries, 46 dismissals

Select one wicketkeeper from the list.

All-rounders

James Coles (Sussex) 930 runs, average 46.50, three centuries, four half-centuries, 20 wickets, average 32.60

Ed Barnard (Warwickshire) 865 runs, average 57.66, three centuries, four half-centuries, 26 wickets, average 39.23

George Hill (Yorkshire) 332 runs, average 18.44, three half-centuries, 45 wickets, average 17.37

Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire) 760 runs, average 50.66, five centuries, one half-century, 23 wickets, average 19.00

Ian Holland (Leicestershire) 488 runs, average 32.53, four half-centuries, 35 wickets, average 19.62

Luis Reece (Derbyshire) 432 runs, average 48.00, four half-centuries, 43 wickets, average 20.27

Ryan Higgins (Middlesex) 482 runs, average 24.10, two half-centuries, 40 wickets, average 24.90

Ben Kellaway (Glamorgan) 813 runs, average 54.20, two centuries, four half-centuries, 25 wickets, average 32.12

Choose one all-rounder.

Spin bowlers

Jack Leach (Somerset) 50 wickets, average 22.76

Simon Harmer (Essex) 36 wickets, average 30.05

Calvin Harrison (Nottinghamshire/Northamptonshire) 36 wickets, average 29.61

Zafar Gohar (Middlesex) 30 wickets, average 36.83

Matt Parkinson (Kent) 32 wickets, average 42.28

Select one spin bowler from the list.

Seam bowlers

Josh Tongue took eight wickets in Nottinghamshire's win at reigning county champions Surrey last week

Kyle Abbott (Hampshire) 48 wickets, average 22.08

Tom Taylor (Worcestershire) 50 wickets, average 23.98

Ethan Bamber (Warwickshire) 40 wickets, average 34.10

Jack White (Yorkshire) 37 wickets, average 24.27

Jamie Porter (Essex) 42 wickets, average 22.00

Ben Raine (Durham) 39 wickets, average 29.58

Josh Tongue (Nottinghamshire) 31 wickets, average 22.03

Toby Roland-Jones (Middlesex) 40 wickets, average 25.60

Logan van Beek (Leicestershire) 33 wickets, average 33.51

You need to choose three seam bowlers from the list to complete your team.