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| Administrator | England and Wales Cricket Board | ||
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| Format | first-class | ||
| First tournament | 1890 | ||
| Tournament format | two nine-team divisions home and away in 4-day matches. | ||
| Number of teams | 18 | ||
| Defending champion | Durham | ||
| Most successful | Yorkshire (30 titles + 1 shared) | ||
| Most runs | Phil Mead (46,268) | ||
| Most wickets | Tich Freeman (3,151) | ||
 2021 County Championship
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The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales. All but one of the teams are named after, and were originally representatives of, historic English counties, the exception being Glamorgan, which is a Welsh county.
| English first-class cricket clubs |
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| Derbyshire • Durham • Essex • Glamorgan • Gloucestershire • Hampshire • Kent • Lancashire • Leicestershire • Middlesex • Northamptonshire • Nottinghamshire • Somerset • Surrey • Sussex • Warwickshire • Worcestershire • Yorkshire |
| MCC • Cambridge University • Durham UCCE • Loughborough UCCE • Oxford University |
| English first-class cricket Captains 2014 Season |
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Madsen (Der) • Collingwood (Dur) • Foster (Ess) • Wallace (Gla) • Klinger (Glo) • Adams (Ham) • Tredwell (Ken) • Chapple (Lan) • Sarwan (Lei) • Dexter (Mid) • Peters (Nor) • Read (Not) • Trescothick (Som) • Smith (Sur) • Joyce (Sus) • Troughton (War) • Mitchell (Wor) • Gale (Yor) |
| County Championship seasons |
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2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • |