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2012 County Championship

English cricket tournament

Field	Value
image	LV County chapionship 2006 to 2014.jpg
administrator	England and Wales Cricket Board
cricket format	First-class cricket (4 days)
tournament format	League system
champions	Warwickshire
count	7
participants	18
matches	144
previous_year	2011
previous_tournament	2011 County Championship
next_year	2013
next_tournament	2013 County Championship

The 2012 County Championship season, known as the LV= County Championship for sponsorship reasons, was the 113th cricket County Championship season. Warwickshire won their seventh County Championship title. It was contested through two divisions: Division One and Division Two. Each team plays all the others in their division both home and away. The top two teams from Division Two (Derbyshire and Yorkshire) were promoted to the first division for the 2013 season, while the bottom two sides from Division One (Worcestershire and defending champions Lancashire) were relegated.

Teams

Division One

Team promoted from Division Two

Team	Primary home ground	Other grounds	Coach	Captain	Overseas player(s)
Durham	Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street	—	England Geoff Cook	England Phil Mustard (Apr-Jul)
England Paul Collingwood (Jul-Sep)	—
Lancashire	Old Trafford, Manchester	Aigburth, Liverpool	England Peter Moores	England Glen Chapple	South Africa Ashwell Prince
Middlesex	Lord's, London	Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground, Uxbridge	England Richard Scott	England Neil Dexter (Apr)
Australia Chris Rogers (Apr-Sep)	Australia Chris Rogers
Nottinghamshire	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	—	England Mick Newell	England Chris Read	Australia Adam Voges (May-Sep)
Somerset	County Ground, Taunton	—	England Andy Hurry	England Marcus Trescothick	South Africa Vernon Philander (Apr-May)
Pakistan Abdur Rehman (Aug-Sep)
Surrey	The Oval, London	Woodbridge Road, Guildford	England Chris Adams	England Rory Hamilton-Brown (Apr-Aug)
England Gareth Batty (Aug-Sep)	South Africa Jacques Rudolph (Apr-May)
India Murali Kartik (Jun-Sep)
Sussex	County Ground, Hove	Arundel Castle Cricket Club Ground, Arundel
Cricket Field Road Ground, Horsham	England Mark Robinson	England Michael Yardy (Apr-Jul)
Ireland Ed Joyce (Jul-Sep)	Australia Steve Magoffin
Warwickshire	Edgbaston, Birmingham	—	England Ashley Giles	England Jim Troughton	New Zealand Jeetan Patel
Worcestershire	County Ground, New Road, Worcester	—	England Steve Rhodes	England Daryl Mitchell	Australia Michael Klinger (Apr-May)
Australia Phillip Hughes (May-Sep)

Division Two

Team relegated from Division One

Team	Primary home ground	Other grounds	Coach	Captain	Overseas player(s)
Derbyshire	County Ground, Derby	Queen's Park, Chesterfield	England Karl Krikken	South Africa Wayne Madsen	New Zealand Martin Guptill (Apr-Jun)
Australia Usman Khawaja (Jun-Sep)
Essex	County Ground, Chelmsford	Castle Park Cricket Ground, Colchester	England Paul Grayson	England James Foster	South Africa Alviro Petersen (Apr-Jun)
India Harbhajan Singh (Jul-Aug)
Glamorgan	SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff	Penrhyn Avenue, Rhos-on-Sea
St Helen's, Swansea	Australia Matthew Mott	Wales Mark Wallace	Australia Moisés Henriques (Apr-May)
Australia Marcus North (May-Aug)
Gloucestershire	County Ground, Bristol	College Ground, Cheltenham	New Zealand John Bracewell	England Alex Gidman	New Zealand Kane Williamson (Apr-Jun)
Australia Ed Cowan (Jul/Sep)
New Zealand Rob Nicol (Aug)
Hampshire	The Rose Bowl, Southampton	—	England Giles White	England Jimmy Adams	Australia Simon Katich
Kent	St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury	Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells	West Indies Jimmy Adams	England Rob Key	West Indies Brendan Nash
Leicestershire	Grace Road, Leicester	—	England Phil Whitticase	England Matthew Hoggard	West Indies Ramnaresh Sarwan
Northamptonshire	County Ground, Northampton	—	England David Ripley	South Africa Andrew Hall	Sri Lanka Chaminda Vaas
Yorkshire	Headingley, Leeds	North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough	Australia Jason Gillespie	England Andrew Gale	Australia Mitchell Starc

Standings

Pld = Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, D = Draws, T = Ties, A = Abandonments, Bat = Batting points, Bowl = Bowling points, Ded = Deducted points, Pts = Points.

Teams receive 16 points for a win and 3 for a draw. Bonus points (a maximum of 5 batting points and 3 bowling points) may be scored during the first 110 overs of each team's first innings.

Division One

Team	Pld	W	L	D	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts
Warwickshire (C)	16	6	1	9	0	43	45	0.0	211
Somerset	16	5	1	10	0	32	45	0.0	187
Middlesex	16	5	4	7	0	33	38	0.0	172
Sussex	16	5	5	6	0	28	41	0.0	167
Nottinghamshire	16	4	2	10	0	26	43	0.0	163
Durham	16	5	5	5	1	18	45	4.0	157
Surrey	16	3	4	8	1	26	40	2.0	139
Lancashire (R)	16	1	5	10	0	25	35	0.0	106
Worcestershire (R)	16	1	8	7	0	17	42	0.0	96

Division Two

Team	Pld	W	L	D	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts
Derbyshire (C)	16	6	2	8	0	31	43	0.0	194
Yorkshire (P)	16	5	0	11	0	41	40	0.0	194
Kent	16	4	3	9	0	39	40	0.0	170
Hampshire	16	4	5	7	0	28	40	0.0	153
Essex	16	3	3	10	0	27	40	0.0	145
Glamorgan	16	3	6	6	1	28	35	1.0	131
Leicestershire	16	3	3	10	0	24	33	5.0	130
Northamptonshire	16	2	5	9	0	37	34	0.0	130
Gloucestershire	16	3	6	6	1	22	35	0.0	126

Results summary

The fixtures for 2012 were announced in November 2011.

Division One

[[Image:IPL2008Legend.svg	120px]]	Durham	Lancashire	Middlesex	Nottinghamshire	Somerset	Surrey	Sussex	Warwickshire	Worcestershire	Durham	Lancashire	Middlesex	Nottinghamshire	Somerset	Surrey	Sussex	Warwickshire	Worcestershire

Division Two

[[Image:IPL2008Legend.svg	120px]]	Derbyshire	Essex	Glamorgan	Gloucestershire	Hampshire	Kent	Leicestershire	Northamptonshire	Yorkshire	Derbyshire	Essex	Glamorgan	Gloucestershire	Hampshire	Kent	Leicestershire	Northamptonshire	Yorkshire

Results in full

Division One

April

| score-team1-inns1 = 125 (41.4 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Paul Franks 51* (83) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Richard Jones 6/32 (10.4 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 130 (49.4 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Michael Klinger 29 (55) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Ben Phillips 3/29 (13 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 403 (105 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = Riki Wessels 113 (148) | wickets-team1-inns2 = Alan Richardson 5/95 (32 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 299 (101.5 overs) | runs-team2-inns2 = Daryl Mitchell 102 (239) | wickets-team2-inns2 = Luke Fletcher 4/53 (25.5 overs)

| score-team1-inns1 = 246 (68.4 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Joe Denly 73 (120) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Vernon Philander 5/43 (20 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 350 (115 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Nick Compton 99 (312) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Corey Collymore 3/66 (23 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 175 (72.1 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = Chris Rogers 50 (108) | wickets-team1-inns2 = George Dockrell 6/27 (20.1 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 73/4 (16 overs) | runs-team2-inns2 = James Hildreth 37* (23) | wickets-team2-inns2 = Gareth Berg 3/25 (8 overs)

| score-team1-inns1 = 264 (68.1 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Tom Maynard 86* (101) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Amjad Khan 5/57 (19.1 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 196 (49 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Joe Gatting 72* (84) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Chris Jordan 3/29 (11 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 273 (70 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = Rory Hamilton-Brown 89 (103) | wickets-team1-inns2 = James Anyon 5/79 (24 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 255 (94.2 overs) | runs-team2-inns2 = Luke Wells 108 (247) | wickets-team2-inns2 = Jon Lewis 3/40 (17.2 overs)

| score-team1-inns1 = 161 (59.3 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = James Taylor 32 (72) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Graham Onions 4/42 (15.3 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 129 (43.4 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Ben Stokes 33 (44) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Ben Phillips 4/33 (13 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 335 (107 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = Michael Lumb 131 (257) | wickets-team1-inns2 = Mitchell Claydon 4/84 (19 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 253 (69.2 overs) | runs-team2-inns2 = Phil Mustard 80 (103) | wickets-team2-inns2 = Andre Adams 4/68 (21 overs)

| score-team1-inns1 = 124 (52.2 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Steven Croft 50 (96) | wickets-team1-inns1 = James Anyon 5/36 (14.2 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 300 (104 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Michael Yardy 110 (171) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Luke Procter 3/48 (16 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 176 (68.5 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = Ashwell Prince 58 (140) | wickets-team1-inns2 = Steve Magoffin 7/34 (19.5 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 4/0 (0.3 overs) | runs-team2-inns2 = Ed Joyce 4* (3) | wickets-team2-inns2 =

| score-team1-inns1 = 256 (93.3 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Dawid Malan 88 (228) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Jade Dernbach 3/48 (26 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 222 (100 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Steven Davies 62 (141) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Neil Dexter 3/23 (11 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 106 (34.5 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = Sam Robson 43 (62) | wickets-team1-inns2 = Jon Lewis 5/41 (15.5 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 137 (40.2 overs) | runs-team2-inns2 = Rory Hamilton-Brown 63 (73) | wickets-team2-inns2 = Toby Roland-Jones 4/25 (10 overs)

| score-team1-inns1 = 147 (39.5 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Vernon Philander 38 (47) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Chris Wright 4/47 (14.5 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 243 (85.2 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Keith Barker 46 (73) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Adam Dibble 3/42 (13 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 354 (105 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = Nick Compton 133 (256) | wickets-team1-inns2 = Chris Wright 3/71 (26 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 262/8 (77.5 overs) | runs-team2-inns2 = William Porterfield 84 (161) | wickets-team2-inns2 = Peter Trego 4/37 (17 overs)

| score-team1-inns1 = 250 (107.2 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Karl Brown 46 (105) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Darren Maddy 4/39 (18 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 329 (102.2 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Rikki Clarke 140 (201) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Simon Kerrigan 4/89 (27.2 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 148 (55 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = Ashwell Prince 51 (123) | wickets-team1-inns2 = Jeetan Patel 5/52 (25 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 71/5 (20.2 overs) | runs-team2-inns2 = William Porterfield 22* (32) | wickets-team2-inns2 = Simon Kerrigan 3/34 (10 overs)

| score-team1-inns1 = 188 (57.4 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Neil Dexter 65 (84) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Graham Onions 6/45 (21.4 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 238 (58.2 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Ben Stokes 45 (54) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Steven Finn 3/55 (15 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 179 (60.5 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = John Simpson 47 (69) | wickets-team1-inns2 = Graham Onions 4/28 (16 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 82/6 (18.3 overs) | runs-team2-inns2 = Michael Di Venuto 29 (26) | wickets-team2-inns2 = Steven Finn 4/43 (9 overs)

| score-team1-inns1 = 162 (56.4 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Chris Read 104* (135) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Peter Trego 5/53 (20 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 445/2d (111.4 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Nick Compton 204* (323) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Ben Phillips 1/42 (20 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 169/4 (58 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = James Taylor 38* (91) | wickets-team1-inns2 = Peter Trego 2/62 (21 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = | runs-team2-inns2 = | wickets-team2-inns2 =

| score-team1-inns1 = 140 (44 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Jason Roy 38 (36) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Alan Richardson 6/47 (20 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 119 (47.5 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = James Cameron 41 (94) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Stuart Meaker 6/39 (15.5 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 224 (60.5 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = Rory Hamilton-Brown 76 (96) | wickets-team1-inns2 = Alan Richardson 4/81 (25 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 94/1 (31 overs) | runs-team2-inns2 = Michael Klinger 69* (95) | wickets-team2-inns2 = Chris Jordan 1/4 (2 overs)

| score-team1-inns1 = 400 (108.3 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Steven Croft 113 (202) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Vernon Philander 5/71 (24.3 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 87/3 (38 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Nick Compton 30* (83) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Glen Chapple 2/15 (11 overs)

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| score-team1-inns1 = 545 (152.5 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Jonathan Trott 178 (314) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Chris Nash 3/44 (14.5 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 80/5 (38.1 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Chris Nash 18 (35) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Keith Barker 3/28 (12 overs)

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| score-team2-inns2 = | runs-team2-inns2 = | wickets-team2-inns2 =

| score-team1-inns1 = 243 (88.1 overs) | runs-team1-inns1 = Alex Hales 49 (84) | wickets-team1-inns1 = Richard Jones 4/76 (20.1 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 157 (67.5 overs) | runs-team2-inns1 = Aneesh Kapil 41 (91) | wickets-team2-inns1 = Andre Adams 5/62 (22 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 88/2 (28.1 overs) | runs-team1-inns2 = Neil Edwards 49* (92) | wickets-team1-inns2 = Richard Jones 1/34 (13 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = | runs-team2-inns2 = | wickets-team2-inns2 =

May

June

July

August

September

Division Two

April

May

June

July

August

September

Statistics

Division One

Most runs

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Nick Compton	Somerset	11	18	1191	99.25	204*	4	7
Chris Rogers	Middlesex	16	29	1086	40.22	173	3	6
Varun Chopra	Warwickshire	16	26	1028	41.12	195	3	5
Ashwell Prince	Lancashire	15	24	1008	43.82	144	2	8
Chris Nash	Sussex	16	28	984	37.84	162	3	2
Source:

References

link. (2012-07-30 , 21 March 2012, accessed 17 April 2012.)
link. (2012-04-11 , accessed 17 April 2012.)
[https://archive.today/20120802173144/http://www.ecb.co.uk/ecb/about-ecb/media-releases/2012-fixtures,316449,EN.html?Pf=com.otherobjects.cms.model.structure.Folder-L-28 ECB reveals 2012 county fixtures], 29 November 2011, accessed 17 April 2011.
"Records / County Championship Division One, 2012". [[ESPNcricinfo]].

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