Tournament Format: | League system |
Champions: | Middlesex |
Previous Year: | 1979 |
Previous Tournament: | 1979 County Championship |
Next Year: | 1981 |
Next Tournament: | 1981 County Championship |
The 1980 Schweppes County Championship was the 81st officially organised running of the County Championship. Middlesex won the Championship title.[1]
Four matches were abandoned without a ball being bowled and are not included in the table and Leics and Sussex were both awarded 6 points for a drawn match in which the scores were level.[2] The Championship was sponsored by Schweppes for the third time.
width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | Won | width=20 abbr="Lost" | Lost | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | Drawn | width=20 abbr="Bonus points" | Batting bonus | width=20 abbr="Bonus points" | Bowling bonus | width=20 abbr="Points" | Points |
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Middlesex | 22 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 58 | 80 | 258 | ||||||||
Surrey | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 51 | 74 | 245 | ||||||||
22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 42 | 64 | 178 | |||||||||
Sussex | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 60 | 60 | 168 | ||||||||
Somerset | 21 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 56 | 70 | 168 | ||||||||
Yorkshire | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 51 | 64 | 163 | ||||||||
21 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 39 | 74 | 161 | |||||||||
Essex | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 48 | 64 | 160 | ||||||||
Derbyshire | 20 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 47 | 62 | 157 | ||||||||
22 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 45 | 58 | 157 | |||||||||
21 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 54 | 61 | 151 | |||||||||
22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 41 | 47 | 148 | |||||||||
Glamorgan | 21 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 43 | 57 | 148 | ||||||||
22 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 55 | 54 | 145 | |||||||||
Lancashire | 20 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 26 | 58 | 132 | ||||||||
Kent | 22 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 36 | 59 | 119 | ||||||||
Hampshire | 22 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 34 | 56 | 102 |