NOttinghamshire, who just left the last doors of relegation last summer, are the surprise winners of the County Championship 2025, who end Surrey’s victories from 2022 to 2024 and collect their first title since 2010.
It came with a big beautiful six from Kyle Verreynne, who arrived over the MidWicket limit and took Notts past the Magic 300-run mark, she gave a second batting bonus point and made them indisputable.
The white bucket chairs at Trent Bridge, increasingly filled by fans in autumnfleeces, burst into the applause, the players on the balcony threw and Liam Patterson-White and Verreynne, who embraced the winning runs for South Africa in the world test championship in the middle of the field.
It is the seventh title of Nottinghamshire and there is something completely suitable that now belongs to two unfairly impacted men, the head coach, Peter Moores, and the captain, Haseb Hameed, whose career are ebodeed and flowed back in the limight and back.
Moores will be the first coach to win the championship with three provinces – Sussex in 2003, Lancashire in 2011 and now with Nottinghamshire. In between, he coached England twice and fired twice by England, a situation that he admitted that he dug more than half a bottle of red wine before he concluded that the game would not owe him anything and went again.
Hameed’s fourth a hundred of the year, which brought Nottinghamshire into waste distance from the title, was a typical combination of seductive Slagplay and determined defense. He was the backbone of Nottinghamshire’s innings, because he has been the most season-heavy of his career, behind only Surrey’s Dom Sibley.
To those who followed the journey of Hameed van Teenage Wunderkind with Lancashire and England, to a young man who could not buy a point in Old Trafford, the move to Trent Bridge and then his increase to the captain, Thursday was the happy ending of a favorite fairy tale. He may not have been the obvious choice as a leader, but Moores and Mick Newell, the director of Cricket at Trent Bridge, saw something in the Batsman from Bolton, the “Baby Boycott” thrown away by England after 10 tests.
After a first year of learning the ropes, he excelled. His teammate Brett Hutton told the BBC: “He is calm and loves the game and the team. He is wearing his heart on his sleeve and he is always 100% on it. He trusts the rest of the boys to do their work.”
However, the campaign has been a victory of the team and the team. Nine batters touch centuries and seven bowlers fell five-wicket distance. In contrast to 2024, players remained fit and hit the jackpot with their overseas players-fast Bowlers Fergus O’Neill and Mohammad Abbas and Verreynne, the big Wicketkeeper.
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More than whatever, Nottts kept their courage. They have lost one match, suddenly from the rails against Durham in one afternoon in Chester-le-Street, but survived the Kookaburra rounds, which kept Surrey in sight. Of their six victories, no more important was than the exciting 20-run knuckle-gnaer against Surrey in the Oval last week, led by a furious Josh-Tong.
That victory gave Notts a 14-point buffer and let them lead their own destination and while Surrey’s first day in Southampton turned into a mess, Notts held their course.
“If you win a championship, you don’t know it will be your year,” said a smiling Moores. “We defeated Durham here, Josh Tongue has four wickets in 12 balls, you win two or three more and suddenly we are in this game when the pressure is different. For the first time we were favorites, you hold the ball, you can’t drop it.”
And they didn’t do that.
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