Durham's triumphant season

The Third Umpire blog hosts a review of Durham’s triumphant county season. It also includes season reviews for Northamptonshire and Nottighamshire.

After the euphoria of 2007 and the club’s first piece of silverware, it was always going to be hard to live up to the expectations, some of it optimistic, of its supporters in 2008. Yet that is precisely what Durham did, by winning their maiden county championship title, just 16 years after gaining first-class status.