Who will Sussex be playing against next year?

Well, that didn't seem to capture much interest, which surprises me a little because it is so closely run a race and has some quite interesting subtexts to it, such as the future of second division cricket whentwo Test Match Ground counties are stranded in Division Two. On the one hand its further bad news for Sussex because it is a certainty that Warwicks and AN Othershire will pay out to get a top-class squad in to go back up straight away, but there is also the idea that the ECB might have to find still more funds to prop up the beleaguered Second Division mediocrity counties for a while and postpone the inevitable withering away into a single league of 10 or 12 supercounties if its stars aren't all seen to be shining quite so brightly.

For the record, your votes were split equally, three each between Somerset and Middlesex and nobody fancied Yorks for the drop. After thge first day of this penultimate round of matches - which might be the decider, hence the early closure of the poll - the honours were split:

Middlesex all out 233 and Lancs 113 -5 (2 points so far)
Somerset 269 and Surrey 42-0 (2 points)
Warks 219 and Yorks 62-1 (3 points to Yorks)