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factoids

The 1968 County Championship was the 69th officially organised running of the County Championship.BOOK, Engel, Matthew, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2004, pages 493-494, 2004, John Wisden & Company Ltd, 0-947766-83-9, Yorkshire won their third consecutive Championship title.The method of obtaining points changed again for a third successive year:BOOK, Wynne-Thomas, Peter, The Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records, 1983, Hamlyn Publishing Group, 0-600-34667-6,

• 10 points for a win
• 5 points for a tie
• 5 points for a team batting last in a drawn match with scores level
• 1 bonus point for every 25 runs over 150 and for every 2 wickets taken (in the first 85 overs only).
• 10 points for a win but no bonus points if less than 8 hours remain at the start of a match

Table{| class"wikitable" style"text-align:center;"|+ County Championship table

!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="No result" |No result!width=20 abbr="Bonus points" |Batting bonus!width=20 abbr="Bonus points" |Bowling bonus!width=20 abbr="Points" |Points style="background:#ccffcc;"Yorkshire County Cricket Club >|270Kent County Cricket Club >|256Glamorgan County Cricket Club >|237Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club >|222Hampshire County Cricket Club >|215Lancashire County Cricket Club >|209Worcestershire County Cricket Club >|203Derbyshire County Cricket Club >|199Leicestershire County Cricket Club >|197Middlesex County Cricket Club >|192Warwickshire County Cricket Club >|190Somerset County Cricket Club >|172Northamptonshire County Cricket Club >|170Essex County Cricket Club >|169Surrey County Cricket Club >|157Gloucestershire County Cricket Club >|153Sussex County Cricket Club >|140

References

{{Reflist}}{{County Championship seasons}}{{English cricket seasons}}{{English-domestic-cricket-competition-stub}}