All 18 counties are in action as the County Championship returns after a seven-week break for this season's final push.
It has been 49 days since there has been any play in the County Championship - the longest break without any action since the great WG Grace faced the very first ball from Bobby Peel when the once grand old competition began back in 1890.
But all 18 counties are in action and largely back at their county bases when red-ball cricket returns on Thursday at 11:00 BST, after its seven weeks in cold storage, for this season's final push.Well, Surrey, county champions in 2022 and 2023, are again top, having so far won six of their nine matches, on 157 points, 23 clear of Somerset, who are ahead of Essex and Hampshire in what looks a title race already realistically reduced to four sides.
But, while defeat for Kent would really leave them in peril, the Pears, on 91 points, are within touching distance of neighbours Warwickshire, the draw specialists on 96, Lancs , as well as Nottinghamshire and Durham, who are locked together on 102 points, prior to meeting at Chester-le-Street.
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