Division bell rings as county cricket looks to make up for lost time | Simon Burnton

There is a mixed reception for a championship that is more like last year’s Bob Willis Trophy than what we saw in 2019

The last time we saw the County Championship, in 2019, Nottinghamshire had been relegated from Division One with a paltry 67 points, while Lancashire, Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire had been promoted from Division Two.

“I’m now looking forward to the challenge and I know the players are excited about that,” trilled Gloucestershire’s head coach, Richard Dawson. “It’s been a humbling championship campaign and all of us are really hurting,” grumbled Peter Moores, whose Notts side were coming to terms with demotion. Now, after a fallow year in 2020, it’s back – and it turns out that none of that really mattered.

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