County Cricket

In England the county season is played as a domestic version of the World Cup and infamous Ashes season. Recently Middlesex have been utterly dominant, with Ed Joyce and Owais Shah making big runs. This has been backed up by some superb bowling from Sri Lankans Ramachandran and Vaas, the former picking up 150 wickets last season in just ten games, such was his dominance. Middlesex cruised to the title, Joyce scoring 377* against Yorkshire, skippered by Jack Owen, to clinch it Surrey, despite brave leadership from Harry Graham, have bowed out of division two and have recently been disbanded, owing to the ball-tampering affair which has shrouded some of their players since Summer 2006. Graham's trial for bringing the game into disrepute continues Though other counties have been more successful than Surrey. Liverpool City Cricket Club have been brilliant, Jimmy Watts scoring 200 against Somerset. Dave Twyman has also picked up wickets for Cornwall, as has James Thiemann for Kent

Winston Award

The Winston Award is one of Cricket's most important awards given to young players from the domestic season. Having been created as the Mike Gatting Award in 1984 and dropped until 2003, when it was revived and renamed after the legendary Sri Lankan spinner Winston Gowshian Vasanthakumar.

In 2003 it was won by Jack Owen, 2004 by James Thiemann, 2005 by Sanjeev Ramachandran and 2006 by Josh Wills. The pundits tip Azeem Sheikh to win ther 2007 award, due to his different but highly successful bowling action