2023 County Championship: Surrey and Lancashire top captains’ poll

The County Championship betting odds suggest the title race is hardly expected to be a two-horse race and that was backed up by the poll.

Hampshire are joint-second favourites at 9/2 and three captains predicted that a well-balanced outfit will end their 50-year title drought, while two captains believe newly-promoted Nottinghamshire will immediately make their mark and they look good value at 9/1 on that basis.

Essex are also 9/2 but were not selected by any of the captains, while Somerset (8/1) were another of the leading contenders to be overlooked.

Yorkshire are the clear favourites in the County Championship Division Two betting at 7/4 and 13 captains predicted the White Rose will make an immediate return to Division One.

Gloucestershire, who also went down last summer, and Durham were the next-most favoured to go up (six votes each) and are 7/1 and 9/1 respectively in the outright odds, while five captains believe the Mickey Arthur revolution at Derbyshire can see the 12/1 shots go up for the first time since 2012.

An overwhelming majority of the county captains believe that England men’s red-ball revolution will secure Ashes success this summer while the majority of captains have also predicted that England Women will win back the Ashes in the multi-format series.

2023 County Championship betting odds

Division One

3/1 Surrey

9/2 Hampshire, Essex

11/2 Lancashire

8/1 Somerset

9/1 Nottinghamshire

12/1 Warwickshire

16/1 Kent

18/1 Middlesex

25/1 Northamptonshire

Division Two

7/4 Yorkshire

4/1 Sussex

11/2 Glamorgan

7/1 Gloucestershire

8/1 Worcestershire

9/1 Durham

12/1 Derbyshire

20/1 Leicestershire

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All odds and markets correct as of date of publication