First-Class Counties Second Eleven Annual 2020

18 Dearden (215) laying the foundations for the sizeable total. Dearden’s score was also the highest individual score in the red ball competition during 2019 whilst Ben Compton of Kent posted four individual centuries during the summer to be the leading hundred-maker in second eleven cricket. Ben Kitt, the former Nottinghamshire seamer, took 7/47 for Leicestershire, with match figures of 12/124 against Northamptonshire at Loughborough CC to record the best return by any bowler during 2019. The fielding honours went to Alex Mellor (Warwickshire) who took six catches an innings against Northamptonshire at the Edgbaston Foundation Community Sports Ground. In the Second Eleven Trophy, fifteen teams passed 300, with Yorkshire’s score of 402-6 at York CC against Nottinghamshire topping the lists. At the other end of the scale Lancashire were dismissed for 94 at Lutterworth against Leicestershire. Howard Clayton