Promotion in the NatWest Pro40 and survival in Division One of the LV County Championship gave some gloss to a Yorkshire season which suffered its fair share of ups and downs.
The responsibility of leading the attack paid dividends for Tim Murtagh and Middlesex as the seamer ended the 2008 season with more wickets than anyone else in county cricket.
Murray Goodwin had a golden summer for Sussex with the bat, but admits he would gladly swap some of his personal runs for more team success.
Yorkshire’s player of the year Jacques Rudolph has admitted he has been generally pleased with the way the 2008 season went for his club.
Shaun Udal’s appointment as Middlesex captain for the Stanford Super Series completes an unimaginable 12 months for the former England spinner who announced his retirement a year ago.
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