Summary

  • All 18 counties playing in final round of season

  • Surrey & Essex battling for Division One title - Surrey need two more points to be champions

  • Northants already relegated; Middlesex or Kent will join them

  • Durham promoted as champions from Division Two

  • Worcestershire need one more point to join them

  1. Toss newspublished at 10:21 British Summer Time 26 September 2023

    There's a bit of rain about this morning and so we'll have delays in four of the five Division One matches, and at Headingley in Div Two.

    Thankfully it seems to be clearing through quite quickly.

    Division One:

    Hants v Surrey - start delayed, rain

    Kent v Lancs - Lancs won toss and chose to bat

    Northants v Essex - start delayed, rain

    Notts v Middlesex - start delayed, rain

    Warwickshire v Somerset - start delayed, rain

    Division Two:

    Durham v Leics - Leics won toss and chose to bowl

    Glamorgan v Derbys - Glamorgan won toss and chose to bowl

    Sussex v Gloucs - Gloucs won toss and chose to bowl

    Yorkshire v Worcs - start delayed, rain

  2. The Division Two promotion racepublished at 10:19 British Summer Time 26 September 2023

    It's almost a formality in Division Two as to who will join already-promoted Durham in the top tier next season.

    Worcestershire require just two points against Yorkshire at Headingley to go up.

    If they slip up, third-placed Leicestershire will need a huge haul against Durham.

  3. Who needs what in Division One?published at 10:18 British Summer Time 26 September 2023

    Leaders Surrey need a maximum of five points from their game at Hampshire to make it back-to-back titles.

    Any points that second-placed Essex drop at already-relegated Northants will mean Surrey require fewer points to lift the trophy.

    Kent and Middlesex are both battling to avoid relegation, with Kent a point above Middlesex in the table.

    Kent just need to match Middlesex's points total to stay up.

  4. Postpublished at 10:15

    Chester-le-Street autumnal morningImage source, Rex Features

    Morning!

    Six months on from the whites being dusted off and the smell of freshly mown outfields, we've somehow reached the final week of the domestic cricket season.

    The title, relegation and promotion are still on the line.

    Over the next four days we'll bring you all the action, so let's get straight to it...