The 126-match tournament begins on April 4 and concludes on September 24. Each team will compete in 14 matches, with the side accumulating the most points crowned as the champion
The County Championship, first played in 1890, remains one of cricket바카라™s oldest and most prestigious competitions. However, the tournament has often battled for relevance in an ever-changing cricketing landscape, with matches squeezed into the unpredictable spring and autumn months. (More Cricket News)
As the 2025 season approaches, all eyes are on Surrey, who enter the campaign as three-time defending champions. Their dominance is reminiscent of Yorkshire바카라™s golden era in the 1960s, and they are once again the favorites to lift the title.
Surrey has strengthened their already formidable squad with the addition of Yorkshire seamer Matthew Fisher, who impressed in Division Two last season.
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Somerset, still searching for their first Division One title, will hope to challenge Surrey바카라™s supremacy. Despite finishing third in 2024, they have not made significant domestic additions.
However, the signing of New Zealand pacer Matt Henry for the early part of the season is a major boost. Spin duo Archie Vaughan and Jack Leach give them an edge on turning tracks, while Will Smeed바카라™s renewed focus on red-ball cricket could be crucial.
Essex also remains in the mix, but stopping Surrey바카라™s march to a fourth consecutive title will be a tall task. For Somerset and others, it will require near-flawless cricket바카라”and a rare stumble from the champions바카라”to shake up the County Championship hierarchy.
County Championship Division One 2025: Schedule
The 126-match tournament begins on April 4 and concludes on September 24. Each team will compete in 14 matches, with the side accumulating the most points crowned as the champion. A victory earns 16 points, while a tie results in eight points. Teams receive five points for a draw.
Division One
Friday, April 4, 2025 1st Match
Essex vs Surrey
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 4, 2025 2nd Match
Hampshire vs Yorkshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 4, 2025 3rd Match
Somerset vs Worcestershire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 4, 2025 4th Match
Warwickshire vs Sussex
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 4, 2025 5th Match
Nottinghamshire vs Durham
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 11, 2025 6th Match
Durham vs Warwickshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 11, 2025 7th Match
Nottinghamshire vs Essex
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 11, 2025 8th Match
Surrey vs Hampshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 11, 2025 9th Match
Sussex vs Somerset
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 11, 2025 10th Match
Yorkshire vs Worcestershire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 18, 2025 11th Match
Sussex vs Surrey
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 18, 2025 12th Match
Durham vs Yorkshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 18, 2025 13th Match
Essex vs Worcestershire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 18, 2025 14th Match
Hampshire vs Somerset
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 18, 2025 15th Match
Warwickshire vs Nottinghamshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 25, 2025 18th Match
Worcestershire vs Durham
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 25, 2025 16th Match
Nottinghamshire vs Sussex
Starts at 11:00
Friday, April 25, 2025 17th Match
Surrey vs Somerset
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 2, 2025 20th Match
Hampshire vs Durham
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 2, 2025 21st Match
Somerset vs Essex
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 2, 2025 19th Match
Yorkshire vs Warwickshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 9, 2025 22nd Match
Essex vs Yorkshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 9, 2025 24th Match
Nottinghamshire vs Hampshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 9, 2025 25th Match
Sussex vs Worcestershire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 9, 2025 23rd Match
Warwickshire vs Surrey
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 16, 2025 26th Match
Durham vs Nottinghamshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 16, 2025 27th Match
Somerset vs Sussex
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 16, 2025 28th Match
Surrey vs Yorkshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 16, 2025 29th Match
Warwickshire vs Hampshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 16, 2025 30th Match
Worcestershire vs Essex
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 23, 2025 31st Match
Durham vs Somerset
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 23, 2025 32nd Match
Hampshire vs Sussex
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 23, 2025 33rd Match
Surrey vs Essex
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 23, 2025 34th Match
Worcestershire vs Warwickshire
Starts at 11:00
Friday, May 23, 2025 35th Match
Yorkshire vs Nottinghamshire
Starts at 11:00
Sunday, June 22, 2025 36th Match
Durham vs Sussex
Starts at 11:00
Sunday, June 22, 2025 40th Match
Nottinghamshire vs Yorkshire
Starts at 11:00
Sunday, June 22, 2025 38th Match
Warwickshire vs Somerset
Starts at 11:00
Sunday, June 22, 2025 37th Match
Essex vs Hampshire
Starts at 11:00
Sunday, June 22, 2025 39th Match
Worcestershire vs Surrey
Starts at 11:00
Sunday, June 29, 2025 44th Match
Hampshire vs Worcestershire
Starts at 11:00
Sunday, June 29, 2025 43rd Match
Somerset vs Nottinghamshire
Starts at 11:00
Sunday, June 29, 2025 42nd Match
Surrey vs Durham
Starts at 11:00
Sunday, June 29, 2025 45th Match
Sussex vs Warwickshire
Starts at 11:00
Sunday, June 29, 2025 41st Match
Yorkshire vs Essex
Starts at 11:00
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 47th Match
Hampshire vs Nottinghamshire
Starts at 11:00
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 46th Match
Somerset vs Durham
Starts at 11:00
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 48th Match
Sussex vs Essex
Starts at 11:00
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 50th Match
Warwickshire vs Worcestershire
Starts at 11:00
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 49th Match
Yorkshire vs Surrey
Starts at 11:00
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 51st Match
Durham vs Surrey
Starts at 11:00
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 55th Match
Nottinghamshire vs Somerset
Starts at 11:00
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 54th Match
Worcestershire vs Hampshire
Starts at 11:00
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 52th Match
Essex vs Warwickshire
Starts at 11:00
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 53th Match
Yorkshire vs Sussex
Starts at 11:00
Monday, September 8, 2025 56th Match
Essex vs Durham
Starts at 11:00
Monday, September 8, 2025 57th Match
Somerset vs Yorkshire
Starts at 11:00
Monday, September 8, 2025 58th Match
Surrey vs Warwickshire
Starts at 11:00
Monday, September 8, 2025 59th Match
Sussex vs Hampshire
Starts at 11:00
Monday, September 8, 2025 60th Match
Worcestershire vs Nottinghamshire
Starts at 11:00
Monday, September 15, 2025 65th Match
Somerset vs Hampshire
Starts at 11:00
Monday, September 15, 2025 63rd Match
Sussex vs Yorkshire
Starts at 11:00
Monday, September 15, 2025 61st Match
Warwickshire vs Essex
Starts at 11:00
Monday, September 15, 2025 62th Match
Durham vs Worcestershire
Starts at 11:00
Monday, September 15, 2025 64th Match
Surrey vs Nottinghamshire
Starts at 11:00
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 70th Match
Yorkshire vs Durham
Starts at 11:00
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 66th Match
Essex vs Somerset
Starts at 11:00
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 68th Match
Hampshire vs Surrey
Starts at 11:00
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 67th Match
Nottinghamshire vs Warwickshire
Starts at 11:00
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 69th Match
Worcestershire vs Sussex
Starts at 11:00
*local timings
County Championship Division One 2025 Guide: Live Streaming Details
Who are all the teams participating in County Championship Division One 2025?
Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire
Where will the County Championship 2025 be streamed live?
The County Championship 2025 matches are streamed live on their respective YouTube channels.
County Championship 2025 Division One: Full squads
Essex
Adam Rossington, Michael-Kyle Pepper, Jordan Cox, Charles Allison, Nick Browne, Robin Das, Dean Elgar, Tom Westley, Luc Benkenstein, Jamal Richards, Matt Critchley, Paul Walter, Shane Snater, Simon Harmer, Noah Thain, Samuel Cook, Jamie Porter
Hampshire
Ben Brown, Joseph Eckland, Ben McDermott, James Vince, Nick Gubbins, Fletcha Middleton, Tom Prest, Joe Weatherley, Aneurin Donald, Toby Albert, Ross Whiteley, Ali Orr, Felix Organ, Ian Holland, Keith Barker, James Fuller, Benny Howell, Michael Neser, Liam Dawson, Mohammad Abbas, Kyle Abbott, Mason Crane, John Turner, Harry Petrie, Jack Campbell, Scott Currie, Brad Wheal, Chris Wood, Nathan Ellis, Sonny Baker, Mark Stoneman
Nottinghamshire
Tom Moores, Joe Clarke, Kyle Verreynne, Dane Schadendorf, Ben Duckett, Jack Haynes, Will Young, Haseeb Hameed, Ben Slater, Benjamin Martindale, Sam King, Ashton Turner, Matthew Montgomery, Travis Holland, Freddie McCann, Lyndon James, Steven Mullaney, Liam Patterson-White, Brett Hutton, Calvin Harrison, Daniel Sams, Moises Henriques, Robert Lord, Olly Stone, Josh Tongue, Matthew Carter, Dillon Pennington, Dane Paterson, James Hayes, Jacob Duffy, Farhan Ahmed, Conor McKerr, Tom Giles, Fergus O'Neill, Mohammad Abbas
Sussex
Oliver Carter, John Simpson, Tom Alsop, Ali Orr, Cheteshwar Pujara, Tom Clark, Steven Smith, Tom Haines, Daniel Hughes, Fynn Hudson-Prentice, Danial Ibrahim, James Coles, Nathan McAndrew, George Thomas II, Jayden Seales, Nantes Thomas, Troy Henry, Jack Joshua Carson, Henry Thomas Crocombe, George Garton, Sean Hunt, Ollie Robinson, Aristides Karvelas, Bradley Currie, Jaydev Unadkat, Gurinder Sandhu
Warwickshire
Alex Davies, Robert Yates, Ed Barnard, Dan Mousley, Jacob Bethell , Danny Briggs, Michael Booth, Oliver Hannon-Dalby, Chris Rushworth, Craig Miles, Tom Latham, Beau Webster, Hassan Ali, Vishwa Fernando, Ethan Bamber
Yorkshire
Adam Lyth, Dawid Malan, Harry Brook, James Wharton, Joe Root, Matthew Revis, William Luxton, George Hill, Jawad Akhtar, Jordan Thompson, Will Sutherland, Yash Vagadia, Finlay Bean, Harry Duke, Jonathan Tattersall, Jonny Bairstow, Noah Kelly, Adil Rashid, Alexander Wade, Ben Coad, Ben Sears, Benjamin Cliff, Daniel Moriarty, Dom Bess, Jack White, Jafer Chohan, Jordan Buckingham, Matt Milnes, Will O'Rourke
Surrey
Rory Burns, Nathan Barnwell, Josh Blake, Jordan Clark, Matt Fisher, Ben Foakes, Luke Griffiths, Dan Lawrence, Ryan Patel, Dominic Sibley, Cameron Steel, Seb Stuart-Reckling, Ollie Sykes, James Taylor, Adam Thomas, and Yousef Majid
Worcestershire
Henry Cullen, Gareth Roderick, Ben Cox, Azhar Ali, Ed Pollock, Jake Libby, Jack Haynes, Adam Hose, Rehaan Edavalath, Rob Jones, Matthew Waite, Ethan Brookes, Kashif Ali, Taylor Cornall, Brett D'Oliveira, Jason Holder, Nathan Smith, Logan van Beek, Fateh Singh, Tom Taylor, Josh Tongue, Adam Finch, Ben Gibbon, Dillon Pennington, Jack Brooks, Josh Baker, Yadvinder Singh, Harry Darley, James Hartshorn, Amar Virdi, Jack Home, Jacob Duffy
Somerset
Tom Abell, Tom Lammonby, Ben Green, Kasey Aldridge, Lewis Gregory, Craig Overton, Tom Banton, James Rew, Josh Davey, Lewis Goldsworthy, Alfie Ogborne, Shoaib Bashir, Jake Ball, Migael Pretorius, Matt Henry
Durham
Alex Lees, Ben McKinney, Emilio Gay, Colin Ackermann, David Bedingham, Oliver Robinson, Bas de Leede, James Minto, Daniel Hogg, Chemar Holder, Callum Parkinson, Scott Borthwick, Ben Raine, Matthew Potts, Brydon Carse, George Drissell, Graham Clark, Brendan Doggett, Emilio Gay, Sam Conners, Will Rhodes