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The 1995 Britannic Assurance County Championship was the 96th officially organised running of the County Championship. Warwickshire won the Championship title for the second successive season.[1][2]

The Championship was sponsored by Britannic Assurance for the twelfth season.[3]

Table

  • 16 points for a win
  • 8 points to each team for a tie
  • 8 points to team still batting in a match in which scores finish level
  • Bonus points awarded in first 120 overs of first innings
    • Batting:
      • 200 runs – 1 point
      • 250 runs – 2 points
      • 300 runs – 3 points
      • 350 runs – 4 points
    • Bowling:
      • 3 or 4 wickets – 1 point,
      • 5 or 6 wickets – 2 points
      • 7 or 8 wickets – 3 points
      • 9 or 10 wickets – 4 points
  • No bonus points awarded in a match starting with less than 8 hours’ play remaining. A one-innings match is played, with the winner gaining 12 points.
  • Position determined by points gained. If equal, then decided on most wins.
County Championship table
Position Team Pld Won Lost Drawn Batting bonus Bowling bonus Points
1 Warwickshire 17 14 2 1 49 64 337
2 Middlesex 17 12 2 3 51 62 305
3 Northamptonshire 17 12 2 3 41 57 290
4 Lancashire 17 10 4 3 48 61 269
5 Essex 17 8 9 0 42 58 228
6 Gloucestershire 17 8 4 5 45 50 223
7 Leicestershire 17 7 8 2 41 61 214
8 Yorkshire 17 7 8 2 39 55 206
9 Somerset 17 7 5 5 40 49 201
10 Worcestershire 17 6 7 4 29 57 182
11 Nottinghamshire 17 5 9 3 41 54 175
12 Surrey 17 5 8 4 34 55 169
13 Hampshire 17 5 8 4 32 56 168
14 Derbyshire 17 4 10 3 39 64 167
15 Sussex 17 4 7 6 37 51 152
16 Glamorgan 17 3 8 6 40 57 145
17 Durham 17 4 13 0 20 53 137
18 Kent 17 3 9 5 40 44 132

Notable events

  • An exceptionally hot and dry summer with few interruptions from rain and many dry pitches led to several notable records
    • Warwickshire, in winning outright fourteen of seventeen games, achieved the highest percentage of wins in Championship history, beating Surrey who won 23 of 28 games in 1955[4]
    • Essex and Durham became the first counties to finish a season without a single draw since Surrey in 1955.[5]
    • Overall, the proportion of finished matches — 124 of 153 — was the greatest since 1921.[5]
  • June 15: In the match between Northamptonshire and Essex at Luton, thirty wickets fall on the first day — the most in a Championship match since 1946 — and Northamptionshire win after being dismissed for 46 in their first innings. This was the lowest first innings score from which a team has come back to win since Warwickshire won after being dismissed for 45 against Yorkshire in 1934.[6]
  • August 23–26: Gloucestershire’s Andrew Symonds set a new record of sixteen sixes in an innings ans twenty in a match against Glamorgan at Abergavenny[7]
  • August 24–28: Nottinghamshire lose by an innings to Northamptonshire after playing a first innings of 527 — to which Northamptonshire replies with 781 for 7. This is the highest score, first or second innings, by a team losing by an innings in first-class cricket.[8]

References

  1. ^ Engel, Matthew, ed. (2004). Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack (141st ed.). John Wisden & Company Ltd. pp. 493–494. ISBN 0-947766-83-9.
  2. ^ Lee, Alan (18 September 1995). “Donald enforces final triumph”. The Times.
  3. ^ “That’s out: the sponsors who walked”. The Guardian. 20 August 1999. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  4. ^ Engel, Matthew, ed. (1996). “Sussex in 1995”. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack (133rd ed.). p. 620.
  5. ^ a b Engel, Matthew, ed. (1996). “Britannic Assurance County Championship, 1995”. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack (133rd ed.). p. 396.
  6. ^ Engel, Matthew, ed. (1996). “Northamptonshire in 1995”. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack (133rd ed.). pp. 554–555.
  7. ^ Engel, Matthew, ed. (1996). “Glamorgan in 1995”. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack (133rd ed.). pp. 459–460.
  8. ^ Engel, ed. (1996). “Northamptonshire in 1995”. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack (133rd ed.). pp. 560–561.