Sussex CCC had experienced a mercurial run-up to the war, their county championship finishing positions from 1935 being 7th, 14th, 5th, 8th, and 10th. Like …

Somerset’s pre-war playing fortunes had been somewhat of a yo-yo affair, finishing consecutively 14th, 7, 13th, 7th and 14th in the county championship between 1935 …

Northamptonshire had been perennial strugglers in the county championship in the years leading up to the Second World War, with consecutive finishes of 17th, 17th, …

The 1930s had been a decade of toil for Leicestershire CCC. Only once had they risen into the top 10 in the County Championship (6th …

In the years leading up the war Kent had mostly hovered around the middle of the county championship table, with consecutive finishes of 10th, 8th, …

With no particularly outstanding players in either the batting or bowling departments, Hampshire CCC had performed modestly in the years leading up to the war, …

Gloucestershire had proved to be a force in county cricket in the years leading up to the war, with two 4th placed finishes in 1936 …

1940 – Glamorgan had enjoyed the most recent elevation to first-class status of the seventeen sides which competed in the pre-war county championship. It is …

Derbyshire CCC had been one of the strongest counties in the pre-war years. Consecutive finishing positions of 2nd, 1st, 3rd, 5th and 9th attested to …

From the high point of winning the county championship in 1929, the years leading up to the war had seen Nottinghamshire struggle to compete with …