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Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in 2005 are playing their cricket in Division One of both the County Championship and totesport League. They started the Championship at 18–1 to win it,and as one of the teams most likely to be relegated from it. So they were—only their five draws prevented them from finishing bottom,and they were the only team to lose to bottom-placed Glamorgan. By the end of August,they were relegated,with three games to spare. In the National League,they were never better than sixth at any time during the season,and lost three games in succession to be ninth before the final round of matches. They won their last match,but were still relegated due to a worse net run rate than Lancashire. They were thus the first club to suffer double relegation since Leicestershire in 2003. Their Twenty20 and C&G Trophy campaigns ended almost as early as they could have done—Gloucestershire did get past the first round of the C&G Trophy,beating Berkshire,but were knocked out by Surrey.
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club in 2005 are playing their cricket in Division Two of the County Championship and Division One of the totesport League. They started the season at 12–1 to win the Division Two title. During the off season 9 players left.
Somerset County Cricket Club played in Division Two of both the County Championship and the Sunday League in 2005. Somerset started at 10–1 to finish Division Two County Champions. Batting seems strong with Smith,Jayasuriya,Blackwell and Trescothick. But the same cannot be said of the bowling,which will find it difficult to dismiss teams twice on the flat Taunton pitch.
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club played their cricket in 2005 in Division One of both the County Championship and the totesport League. They started the season at 7–1 to win the title,and with a new captain,New Zealand's Stephen Fleming.
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