What is the standard of cricket in division 2? Labushchagne playing like he's become Donald Bradman. Only had 4 first class hundreds in his entire career prior to joining Glamorgan, he's about to score his 5th century of the season
I think mixed would be the best and fairest way to describe it.
I would say division one right now is up there with anything in the world game - just as test cricket sides are different around the world, there will be differences with say the Sheffield Shield teams in that there is not as much top line pace in the English game, but the overall standard is very decent indeed. I was about to start by saying something slightly disrespectful of Division Two, but then thought better of it - there are certainly some teams in there who treat First Class cricket as the thing they do to stay warm whilst waiting for the T20s (Leicestershire, Gloucestershire, Derbyshire, Durham I'm looking at you) and there is also a bit of a move toward D2 counties being places for D1 counties to give their lads some game time (Jamie Overton having a run out for Northants, for example) which puts some counties strength in context - for example, Gloucs taking Josh Shaw from Yorkshire to take the new ball when he is, at best, eleventh in the pecking order at Headingley - but...
Play Lancashire, you're up against Anderson, Onions, Mahmood, Gleeson, Parkinson. That's not a bad attack. Middlesex are toward the bottom of the table but can field recent test players in Malan, Finn, Roland-Jones, Robson, Murtagh and Stirling as well as possible future ones in Gubbins, Holden and Helm. Sussex bring an array of talent from around the world too. And Glamorgan were, until yesterday, top of the table...
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