County Championship: Pick your team of 2024 season

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• Published20 September 2024, 09:27 BST
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We are getting close to the end of another County Championship cricket season, but who have been your top performers?

Surrey may have won a third successive Division One title but in 2023, only one of their players featured in a team picked by you.

This year will you choose Haseeb Hameed or Alex Davies? David Bedingham or Jordan Cox? Ben Coad or Kyle Abbott?

Pick your own XI from below and we will collate all the votes before publishing an overall team of 2024 during the final round of County Championship matches, which begin on Thursday.

Just to get you started, here are the sides selected for the last two seasons:

2023: Alex Lees (Durham), Jake Libby (Worcestershire), Josh Bohannon (Lancashire), Tom Westley (Essex), James Rew (Somerset), Leus du Plooy (Derbyshire), Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Simon Harmer (Essex), Jordan Clark (Surrey), Brett Hutton (Nottinghamshire), Jamie Porter (Essex).

2022: Ben Compton (Kent), Keaton Jennings (Lancashire), Tom Abell (Somerset), Harry Brook (Yorkshire), Cheteshwar Pujara (Sussex), Ben Foakes (Surrey), Ed Barnard (Worcestershire), Simon Harmer (Essex), Toby Roland-Jones (Middlesex), Kyle Abbott (Hampshire), Matthew Potts (Durham).

Your team needs to include two openers, three middle-order batters, one wicketkeeper, one all-rounder, one spinner and three seam bowlers.

Players needed to have featured in at least six games this season to make our shortlist and all statistics are correct up to and including 20 September 2024.

Voting will close at 13:00 BST on Thursday, 26 September - during the first day of the final round of matches this summer.

Opening batters

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Rory Burns (Surrey): 1,057 runs, average 55.63. Three centuries, five half-centuries.

Alex Davies (Warwickshire): 1,110 runs, av 52.85. Four centuries, three half-centuries.

Dean Elgar (Essex): 962 runs, av 50.63. Three centuries, five half-centuries.

Haseeb Hameed (Notts): 1,084 runs, av 54.20. Three centuries, four half-centuries.

Keaton Jennings (Lancashire): 1,005 runs, av 47.85. Four centuries, three half-centuries.

Adam Lyth (Yorkshire): 1,068 runs, av 53.40. Four centuries, five half-centuries.

Select two of these players to open the batting.

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Middle-order batters

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Tom Banton (Somerset): 891 runs, av 49.50. Two centuries, five half-centuries.

David Bedingham (Durham): 1,265 runs, av 79.06. Six centuries, two half-centuries.

Joe Clarke (Nottinghamshire): 905 runs, av 53.23. Four centuries, four half-centuries.

Jordan Cox (Essex): 918 runs, av 65.57. Four centuries, two half-centuries.

Colin Ingram (Glamorgan): 1,267 runs, av 90.50. Five centuries, five half-centuries.

Will Rhodes (Warwickshire): 983 runs, av 49.15. Three centuries, three half-centuries.

Select three of these players to bat in your middle order.

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Wicketkeepers

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James Bracey (Gloucestershire): 1,040 runs, av 61.17. Four centuries, three half-centuries. 58 dismissals.

Ben Foakes (Surrey): 404 runs, av 26.93. Four half-centuries. 52 dismissals.

James Rew (Somerset): 707 runs, av 39.27. Two centuries, three half-centuries. 41 dismissals.

Ollie Robinson (Durham): 866 runs, av 50.94. Two centuries, five half-centuries. 43 dismissals.

Gareth Roderick (Worcestershire): 681 runs, av 32.42. Two centuries, four half-centuries. 45 dismissals.

John Simpson (Sussex): 1,110 runs, av 69.37. Five centuries, three half-centuries. 44 dismissals.

Select one wicketkeeper from the list.

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All-rounders

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Ed Barnard (Warwickshire): 759 runs, av 37.95. Two centuries, four half-centuries. 24 wickets, av 34.79. One five-wicket haul.

Jordan Clark (Surrey): 467 runs, av 33.35. One century, two half-centuries. 38 wickets, av 25.97. One five-wicket haul.

Matt Critchley (Essex): 550 runs, av 32.35. One century, three half-centuries. 33 wickets, av 29.81. Three five-wicket hauls.

Liam Dawson (Hampshire): 907 runs, av 60.46. Three centuries, five half-centuries. 50 wickets, av 25.34. Five five-wicket hauls.

Ryan Higgins (Middlesex): 1,093 runs, av 72.86. Five centuries, two half-centuries. 30 wickets, av 27.93.

Choose one all-rounder.

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Spin bowlers

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Jack Carson (Sussex): 47 wickets, av 22.91. Three five-wicket hauls.

Simon Harmer (Essex): 42 wickets, av 33.42.

Jack Leach (Somerset): 38 wickets, av 24.94. Four five-wicket hauls.

Nathan Lyon (Lancashire): 26 wickets, av 30.38.

Select one spin bowler from the list.

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Seam bowlers

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Kyle Abbott (Hampshire): 46 wickets, av 22.73. Four five-wicket hauls.

Ben Coad (Yorkshire): 52 wickets, av 16.03. Three five-wicket hauls.

Sam Cook (Essex): 43 wickets, av 16.00. Two five-wicket hauls.

Oliver Hannon-Dalby (Warwickshire): 48 wickets, av 21.14. Three five-wicket hauls.

Toby Roland-Jones (Middlesex): 52 wickets, av 22.09. Seven five-wicket hauls.

Matthew Potts (Durham): 33 wickets, av 25.39. One five-wicket haul.

Jamie Porter (Essex): 55 wickets, av 19.29. Four five-wicket hauls.

Dan Worrall (Surrey): 52 wickets, av 16.15. Two five-wicket hauls.

You need to choose three seam bowlers from the list to complete your team.

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