Durham's preparations for the final were hampered by the news that Steve Harmison would be unable to play after sustaining a muscle tear in his back in a County Championship match against Surrey.
The 2009 County Championship season, known as the LV County Championship for sponsorship reasons, was the 110th County Championship season.
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club won the Championship for the sixth time in their history, the first time since 2005.
•
The 2010 County Championship season, known as the LV County Championship for sponsorship reasons, was the 111th County Championship season.
Three major domestic competitions were contested: the 2012 County Championship won by Warwickshire, the 2012 Clydesdale Bank 40 and the 2012 Friends Life t20 both won by Hampshire Royals.
The ground was first used by the Glamorgan 1st XI in 1966, although County Championship matches have only been an annual fixture since 1990 (with the exception of 1991 and 1996).
Because the inaugural IPL season coincided with the County Championship season as well as New Zealand's tour of England, the ECB and county cricket clubs raised their concerns to the BCCI over players.
In the County Championship, they won four matches to finish fifteenth in their seventy second season in the Championship.
In the County Championship, they won six matches to finish twelfth in their eighty-sixth season in the Championship.
In the 2010 County Championship, Derbyshire was in Division 2 and finished in ninth position.
Liverpool Victoria County Championship, the current name for the first-class cricket competition in England and Wales
The 2010 season saw Somerset County Cricket Club competing in three domestic competitions; the first division of the County Championship, the Clydesdale Bank 40 and the Friends Provident t20.
Gloucestershire played first-class matches at the ground from 1882 to 1923, playing a total of 56 first-class matches there, the last of which saw them play Leicestershire in the 1923 County Championship.
Gloucestershire played first-class matches at the ground from 1923 to 1992, playing a total of 155 first-class matches there, the last of which saw them play Somerset in the 1992 County Championship.
County Durham | Orange County | County Cork | St. Louis County, Minnesota | County Galway | County Mayo | World Rally Championship | county | Montgomery County | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Lancashire County Cricket Club | World Championship | NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship | Ultimate Fighting Championship | Westchester County, New York | Nassau County, New York | World Championship Wrestling | County Antrim | Rockland County, New York | County Down | Washington County | Hillsborough County | Derby County F.C. | County Meath | County Donegal | Erie County, New York | County Tyrone | County Tipperary | County Louth | County Armagh |
The 2003 County Championship season, known as the Frizzell County Championship, was the 103rd County Championship.
After several years of sporadic appearances, he became a first team regular in 1957, while his best season came in 1959, when he scored over 2,000 runs for the only time and helped Yorkshire, under Ronnie Burnet, win the County Championship.
Marsham succeeded Cuthbert Burnup as captain of Kent at the start of the 1904 season, and two seasons later Marsham presided over Kent's first County Championship win.
This was a chastening year for Worcestershire: in 30 County Championship matches they won not a single game, and against a Nottinghamshire side containing Larwood, Voce and Staples they were thrashed by an innings and 21 runs.
In 1958 life looked good for Peter May of Charterhouse, Cambridge, Surrey and England; his county had been County Champions for seven years running, with May the captain for the last two seasons, and England had never been defeated under his leadership.
He retained his place for the County Championship game against Lancashire that followed, in which he achieved his first stumping, accounting for Farokh Engineer off the bowling of Norman Gifford.
A specialist right-handed batsman as well as a very occasional bowler, Slater represented the New South Wales Blues in Australian domestic cricket and played English County cricket with Derbyshire.
Mark Ramprakash was dismissed 'Obstructing the field' on 30 July 2011, in a County Championship Division 2 match between Surrey and Gloucestershire.
The Yorkshire team, about to begin their domination of the County Championship during the 1960s were well served with spinners such as Ray Illingworth and Don Wilson, and had little room for Kippax's leg spinners.
Weaver made two first-class appearances for Hampshire in the 1938 County Championship against Glamorgan and his second and final first-class match against Cambridge University, in which he made his highest first-class score of 37.
On his County Championship debut for Yorkshire, he made a disappointing 4 runs from 4 balls in his first innings, being bowled by Rikki Clarke of Surrey, and just 12 in his second innings.