Our team have studied the stats, pored over the papers and unpicked the player moves. We’ve put together team profiles of every county (see below), then had a series of wild stabs in the dark (in fact the views of six panellists have been carefully averaged out) to produce 2018’s Wisden Cricket Monthly Predictions for county cricket.

We look forward to being sent this link with a scoff in late September.

Wisden Cricket Monthly Predictions

County Championship Division One

1. Essex
2. Surrey
3. Nottinghamshire
4. Yorkshire
5. Lancashire
6. Hampshire
7. Somerset
8. Worcestershire

County Championship Division Two

1. Middlesex
2. Sussex
3. Warwickshire
4. Northamptonshire
5. Durham
6. Kent
7. Glamorgan
8. Gloucestershire
9. Leicestershire
10. Derbyshire

Vitality T20 Blast

QF: Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Sussex, Yorkshire
SF: Essex, Northants
Runners-up: Notts
Winner: Surrey

Royal London One-Day Cup

QF: Essex, Warwickshire
SF: Hampshire, Yorkshire
Runner-up: Surrey
Winner: Notts

Team Profiles

DERBYSHIRE – view profile
DURHAM – view profile
ESSEX – view profile
GLAMORGAN – view profile
GLOUCESTERSHIRE – view profile
HAMPSHIRE – view profile
KENT – view profile
LANCASHIRE – view profile
LEICESTERSHIRE – view profile
MIDDLESEX – view profile
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE – view profile
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE – view profile
SOMERSET – view profile
SURREY – view profile
SUSSEX – view profile
WARWICKSHIRE – view profile
WORCESTERSHIRE – view profile
YORKSHIRE – view profile