County Championship 2024 team of the season as chosen by you

Surrey captain Rory Burns led his side to a third consecutive County Championship Division One title

There are advent calendars in the shops, rivers are bursting their banks and cricketers are packing their wraparound shades and zinc cream for sunnier climes.

It can mean only one thing - the domestic cricket season is in its final hours, so it is time to reveal who made your County Championship team of 2024.

More than 29,000 teams have been picked by users of the BBC Sport website and app over the past week - and we can now reveal which 11 players were most selected.

As last year, nine different counties are represented, but only two players have retained their place, while four of the XI plied their trade in Division Two this summer.

Here is the team of the season, as chosen by you, the BBC Sport users.

• Player statistics correct as of Thursday, 26 September, before the final round of matches this season.

Opening batters

Both Alex Davies and Rory Burns each scored more than 1,000 runs this season

RORY BURNS (SURREY) - selected by 54% of users who voted

1,057 runs, average 55.63, three centuries

Leading Surrey to a third consecutive Division One title will undoubtedly go down as the biggest achievement of the season for Rory Burns.

But the 34-year-old - who won 32 England Test caps between 2018 and 2022 - played his part with the bat too, hitting a career-best 227 in a resounding win over Lancashire at The Oval in August and averaging an impressive 55.63.

The Surrey captain was the fourth leading run-scorer in the division and one of only three players in the squad to play every game, alongside opening partner Dom Sibley and all-rounder Jordan Clark.

ALEX DAVIES (WARWICKSHIRE) - 37%

1,110 runs, average 52.85, four centuries

The captaincy of a club often weighs heavy on a new incumbent but Davies has risen to the occasion this season.

The keeper-batter became the first man to reach 1,000 runs in Division One this season in a soggy draw against Worcestershire at New Road this month.

It was just the second time the 30-year-old has reached the milestone, the previous being in 2017 at Lancashire.

It had looked an inevitability since the opening weeks of the season when he amassed a career-best 256 from 311 balls in a run-fest against Durham at Edgbaston in April.

Middle-order batters

Colin Ingram, left, averaged 90.5 with the bat

COLIN INGRAM (GLAMORGAN) - 61%

1,267 runs, average 90.5, five centuries

The man they call the King at Sophia Gardens.

While Sam Northeast may have stole the limelight early in the season, not least with his record-breaking 335* at Lord’s in April, veteran South African Colin Ingram eclipsed his skipper, and everyone else in Division Two, with a stellar season.

At the age of 39 his career-best unbeaten 257 against Leicestershire last month was his fifth century of the campaign and will live long in the memory, though he passed 50 in four of Glamorgan’s past five matches too to become the leading run-scorer across both divisions.

DAVID BEDINGHAM (DURHAM) - 75%

1,265 runs, average 79.06, six centuries

Division One’s leading run-scorer was comfortably the most popular pick this year, fresh off the back of a huge career-best knock of 279 - and the highest score in Durham’s first-class history - against Lancashire earlier this month.

The 30-year-old South Africa international consistently produced every time he came to the crease, including a remarkable run of four consecutive centuries in May.

David Bedingham topped the batting charts by more than 150 runs despite playing at least three fewer matches than every other player who made the top 10, as well as hitting the highest number of boundaries and making the most centuries with six.

JORDAN COX (ESSEX) - 52%

918 runs, average 65.57, four centuries, two half-centuries

It has been quite the year for Jordan Cox, who earned his first England international Test squad call-up for the series against Sri Lanka in August thanks to his excellent domestic form.

The 23-year-old racked up more than 900 runs at an average of 65.57 - the second highest of any player in Division One, behind only leading run-scorer Bedingham.

Cox has enjoyed an impressive first season with Essex after joining from Kent, scoring four hundreds, including a double century on his return to the St Lawrence Ground on the way to a comprehensive victory in May.

Wicketkeeper

James Bracey has taken 53 catches and made five stumpings

JAMES BRACEY (GLOUCESTERSHIRE) - 34%

1,040 runs, average 61.17, four centuries, 58 dismissals

Perhaps appropriately for a wicketkeeper, James Bracey edged out Sussex rival John Simpson for the lone spot behind the timbers in the tightest battle of all, winning the vote by just 2%.

The 27-year-old, another lefty in our line-up who won two Test caps in 2021, emulated Ingram by posting a career-best score against Leicestershire last month, making an unbeaten 207, his fourth century of the summer.

He also posted an unbeaten double ton at Glamorgan in July, a match possibly best remembered for Bracey’s stunning one-handed, gloveless catch, off the final ball of the final day, which secured an unlikely tie.

All-rounder

Liam Dawson took three five-wicket hauls

LIAM DAWSON (HAMPSHIRE) - 57%

907 runs, average 60.46, three centuries, 54 wickets, average 24.55

We are now eight years removed from Liam Dawson's three-match Test career, a fact which still leaves many scratching their heads.

Now 34, Dawson is ageing like a fine wine. He scored two centuries in his past three matches and took three five-wicket hauls – two of those coming in either innings at Old Trafford a month ago as he posted match figures of 10-99 - and he made an unbeaten century to boot.

Only Jamie Porter took more wickets across both divisions than the left-arm spinner’s 54 (at the close of play on 26 September) and it is no surprise he received more votes than all the other all-rounder candidates combined.

Spin bowler

Sussex spinner Jack Carson took a career best 6-67 against Derbyshire in August

JACK CARSON (SUSSEX) - 47%

47 wickets, average 22.91, three five-wicket hauls

Sussex off-spinner Jack Carson helped his side win promotion from Division Two, and with the title likely to follow - the biggest reward possible for his excellent bowling this season.

The 23-year-old from Northern Ireland was the third-highest wicket-taker in the division with 47 wickets.

He claimed a career best both with the bat and ball against Derbyshire in August, scoring 97 runs and taking 6-67 on the way to victory.

If Carson carries this form into the top flight next season, he might soon be knocking on some international dressing-room doors.

Seam bowlers

Essex's Jamie Porter, centre, took 55 wickets in Division One - more than any other bowler

DAN WORRALL (SURREY) – 59%

52 wickets, average 16.15, two five-wicket hauls

One of just two members of Surrey’s title-winning sides to make the cut, but Dan Worrall was one of the first names on most of your teamsheets.

The 33-year-old Australian picked up 12 wickets in his past two matches to help his side seal their third consecutive Division One crown – it is surely no coincidence they have all come since he joined the club in 2022.

His frightening average was boosted by a stellar showing at home to Worcestershire in May when he took 6-22 in the first innings and followed with 4-35 for outrageous match figures of 10-57.

Sadly for the chasing pack, he has extended his stay at The Oval with a new multi-year deal this summer.

JAMIE PORTER (ESSEX) - 46%

55 wickets, average 19.29, four five-wicket hauls

Division One’s leading-wicket taker makes the team of the year for the second successive season.

Jamie Porter once again put on a display of fantastic seam bowling in 2024, taking 55 wickets at an average of just 19.29.

The 31-year-old showcased his phenomenal consistency, recording four five-wicket hauls in his tenth year at the club.

Essex's decision to extend Porter's deal until 2027 before the start of the season certainly looks like a wise one now.

BEN COAD (YORKSHIRE) - 44%

52 wickets, average 16.03, three five-wicket hauls

Nobody picked up more wickets in Division Two than Ben Coad, while his stingy average and economy rate of 2.64 were by far the best of anyone to bowl at least 150 overs this season.

The 30-year-old right-armer finished the campaign strongly with 24 scalps in his last seven innings, but it was a fierce 15-over spell at Chesterfield in June which was undoubtedly the highlight as he picked up 6-30 - the second-best figures of his career - to help Yorkshire claim a thumping win over Derbyshire.

Coad’s selection leaves Essex’s Sam Cook on the outside looking in.