County Championship: Pick your team of 2025 season

The evenings are drawing in, big coats are flying out of the attic, and Halloween-related merchandise is rife in supermarkets.

Who were your standout performers in 2025 despite the fact that we are in the wane of another County Championship cricket season?

Will you choose Nottinghamshire’s opening duo of Haseeb Hameed and Ben Slater with the title in hand for the final round of games?

Could Rehan Ahmed or James Coles join the team as your all-rounder? Will Jamie Porter or Kyle Abbott find favor as a pace option?

We will compile all the votes before publishing the overall 2025 team later in the week. Pick your XI from the players listed below.

Here are the teams that have been chosen for the past two seasons just to get things moving:

Rory Burns (Surrey), Alex Davies (Warwickshire), Colin Ingram (Glamorgan), David Bedingham (Durham), Jordan Cox (Essex), James Bracey (Gloucestershire), Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Jack Carson (Sussex), Dan Worrall (Surrey), Jamie Porter (Essex), and Ben Coad (Yorkshire) in 2024.

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

One wicketkeeper, one all-rounder, one spinner, three middle-order batters, one seam bowler, and two openers are required for a team.

To be included on our shortlist, players had to have played at least six games this season, and all statistics were accurate up to Saturday, September 20.

Haseeb Hameed (Nottinghamshire) 1, 131 runs, 62.83 on average, three centuries, and five half-centuries.

Dom Sibley (Surrey) 1, 223 runs, 64.36 on average, four centuries, and six half-centuries.

Adam Lyth (Yorkshire) 1, 104 runs, 50.18 on average, three centuries, and five half-centuries.

Jake Libby (Worcestershire) 488 runs, 44.90 on average, 4 centuries in a half-century

Alex Lees (Durham) 929 runs, 44.23 on average, three half-centuries, and three centuries

Ben Slater (Nottinghamshire) 963 runs, 43.3 average, a century, and nine half-centuries

Ben Compton (Kent) 1, 275 runs, 60.71 on average, five centuries, and two half-centuries.

Caleb Jewell (Derbyshire) 1, 005 runs, 47.85 on average, one century, and eight half-centuries.

Dan Lawrence (Surrey) 839 runs, 55.93 on average, two centuries, and five half-centuries.

Tom Abell (Somerset), 1, 022 runs, 51.10 on average, three centuries, and five second half-centuries.

Marcus Harris (Lancashire) 1, 027 runs, 60.41 on average, three centuries, and five half-centuries.

Jack Haynes (Nottinghamshire) 443 runs, average 43.42, four centuries, and one half of a century

Colin Ingram (Glamorgan) 1, 026 runs, 60.35 on average, three centuries, and seven half-centuries.

Wayne Madsen (Derbyshire) 960 runs, 50.52 on average, three centuries, and five half-centuries.

Saif Zaib (Northamptonshire) 1, 305 runs, 65.25 on average, six centuries, and five half-centuries.

960 runs, 45.71 on average, three centuries, four half-centuries, and 37 dismissals.

John Simpson (Sussex) 952 runs, 56 on average, three centuries, four half-centuries, and 50 dismissals.

James Bracey (Gloucestershire) 950 runs, 52.77 on average, three centuries, two half-centuries, and 45 dismissals.

Gareth Roderick (Worcestershire) 673 runs, an average of 29.26, a century, four half-centuries, and 56 dismissals.

Michael Pepper (Essex) 799 runs, an average of 44.38, three half-centuries, three dismissals, and three centuries.

Ben Brown (Hampshire) 732 runs, an average of 45.75, two centuries, two half-centuries, and 39 dismissals.

Lewis McManus (Northamptonshire) 578 runs, 30.42 on average, four half-centuries, and 46 dismissals.

James Coles (Sussex) 930 runs, average 46.50, three centuries, four half-centuries, 20 wickets, average 32.60

Ed Barnard (Warwickshire) 865 runs, 57. 66 runs, three centuries, four half-centuries, 26 wickets, and an average of 39. 23

George Hill (Yorkshire) 332 runs, average 18.44, three half-centuries, 45 wickets, average 17.37

Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire) 760 runs, average 50.66, five centuries, one half-century, 23 wickets, average 19.00

Ian Holland (Leicestershire) 488 runs, average 32.53, four half-centuries, 35 wickets, average 19.62

Luis Reece (Derbyshire) 432 runs, average 48.00, four half-centuries, 43 wickets, average 20.27

Ryan Higgins (Middlesex) 482 runs, average 24.10, two half-centuries, 40 wickets, average 24.90

Ben Kellaway (Glamorgan) 813 runs, average 54.20, two centuries, four half-centuries, 25 wickets, average 32.12

Jack Leach (Somerset) 50 wickets, average 22.76

Simon Harmer (Essex) 36 wickets, average 30.05

Calvin Harrison (Nottinghamshire/Northamptonshire) took 36 wickets on an average of 29.61.

Zafar Gohar (Middlesex) took 30 wickets on an average of 36.83.

Matt Parkinson (Kent) 32 wickets, average 42.28

48 wickets, average 22.08, Kyle Abbott (Hampshire).

Tom Taylor (Worcestershire) takes 50 wickets on an average of 23.98.

Ethan Bamber (Warwickshire) took 40 wickets on an average of 34.10.

Jack White (Yorkshire) 37 wickets, average 24.27

Jamie Porter (Essex) 42 wickets, average 22.00

Ben Raine (Durham) 39 wickets, average 29.58

31 wickets, on average 22.03, Josh Tongue (Nottinghamshire).

Toby Roland-Jones (Middlesex) has 40 wickets on an average of 25.60.

Logan van Beek (Leicestershire) 33 wickets on a 33.51 average.