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Hain and Bamber headline fan's Rothesay County Championship Team of the Year

Cricket fans have voted for their 2026 Rothesay County Championship best XI.

Players from Warwickshire, Somerset, Durham, Northamptonshire, Surrey and Hampshire have been voted into the Rothesay County Championship Team of the Year by cricket fans.

Warwickshire duo Sam Hain and Ethan Bamber were the top vote-getters across the weeklong series of polls, as testament to their fine seasons as they pushed Warwickshire to the County Championship title. Bamber took the most wickets in the country, finishing with 69 victims, while Hain passed 50 in each of his last four games, including 142 in the Bears' title-winning game to end the season.

Somerset boast three players in the XI, with Tom Abell, James Rew and Craig Overton voted in the middle-order batter vote. wicketkeeper vote and all-rounder vote respectively.

Division Two champions Durham also boast two players in the XI, with opener Ben McKinney voted in having passed 1,000 runs on the season, as well as bowler Matthew Potts, who took 60 wickets at an average under 18.

McKinney's opening partner Ricardo Vasconcelos is one of two Northamptonshire players voted in. Vasconcelos scored six centuries in his 1,159 runs and is joined in the team by county teammate Ben Sanderson. The veteran seam bowler took 58 wickets in Division Two as Northamptonshire narrowly missed out on promotion.

Dan Lawrence will be the team's designated spinner, with the four bowling places going to seam bowlers. The Surrey batter scored six centuries and averaged over 65 in his ten matches this summer, before his England recall restricted availability at the tail end of the season.

Hampshire stalwart Kyle Abbott rounds out the team, with his 64 wickets being second-most in Division One.

Rothesay County Championship Team of the Year

Ricardo Vasconcelos (Northamptonshire)
Ben McKinney (Durham)
Tom Abell (Somerset)
Sam Hain (Warwickshire)
Dan Lawrence (Surrey)
James Rew (Somerset - wicketkeeper)
Craig Overton (Somerset)
Matthew Potts (Durham)
Ethan Bamber (Warwickshire)
Kyle Abbott (Hampshire)
Ben Sanderson (Northamptonshire)