Warwickshire CCC: County Championship Pre-Season Catch-up
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📉 2025 Season Review 📝 2026 Player News. 📊 Current Squad & Stats.
2025 Warwickshire CCC Review
After a couple of disappointing years, Warwickshire showed a lot more solidity in 2025 and secured a respectable mid-table finish. They were hard to beat, drawing nine of their 14 games, the joint-most in Division One, while winning three and losing only twice. It was a very tightly packed mid-table, with only four points separating fourth and seventh; they will be hoping their winter recruitment can bridge that gap and get them competing at the right end of the table again.
They’ll be looking for a player to break the 1,000-run barrier this time around after Ed Barnard came closest last term with 922, while Sam Hain added 734 and Rob Yates was the next highest with 674. Ethan Bamber led the way with the ball, taking 43 scalps, while Michael Booth is one to watch after grabbing 24 in just seven appearances. Warwickshire also remains a club that prides itself on giving youth a chance, recently blooding the likes of Jacob Bethell, Dan Mousley, Tazeem Ali, Kai Smith, and Hamza Shaikh. That is a highly talented young crop of players!
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2025 Stat Attack
- Ed Barnard: Secured the 8th most points in the 2025 season, accumulating a total of 2,205.
- Beau Webster: Ranked 7th for most points per game among all-rounders during his six-match stint — a performance that earned him a return to Edgbaston for the 2026 season.
- Kai Smith: Achieved the highest point total (884) for any wicketkeeper valued under £5.5m.
- Ethan Bamber: Finished as the ninth-highest wicket-taker in the league with 43 wickets.
- Michael Booth: Recorded the second-most wickets (24) for players in the budget category of £5.0m or less.
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Player Ins & Outs
Warwickshire have looked to bolster their ranks over the winter with three new signings. Nathan Gilchrist, who featured on loan from Kent last summer, makes his move permanent. There’s also a return for fan favourite Keith Barker, while fellow bowling all-rounder Jordan Thompson arrives from Yorkshire. This gives them three new seam-bowling options, with Barker and Thompson also offering useful lower-order batting.
Danny Briggs, who was on a white-ball contract, is the only departure as he returns to Sussex. Beau Webster, who played for the county in 2025, also comes back after impressing and making himself a fixture in the Australian squad recently. Last season, Warwickshire’s other overseas slot was used by either a batter or a spinner. Tom Latham, Will Young, and Corey Rocchiccioli occupied the spot, so the club may go down a similar route by signing players on a short-term basis for different stints throughout the campaign.
2026 Fixtures
Warwickshire have a challenging start to the season, with Surrey up first at Edgbaston. Next they travel to Sussex before welcoming Essex to Birmingham and then a trip Nottinghamshire on GW4. If they can get off to a strong start with those fixtures, they will have a great platform for 2026. They have a week off on GW5 before back to back home games against Yorkshire and Glamorgan. Two away matches follow, again facing Yorkshire before travelling to Somerset. August contains two games at Edgbaston, this time Sussex and Notts are the visitors. The season concluded with three of their last four games being away from home. These are against Hampshire, Glamorgan and Essex before taking on Leicestershire at home on the final week of the campaign.
