County Championship: Day one of season hampered by rain
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Derbyshire and Gloucestershire were the only sides not to win a County Championship game last season
Day one of the County Championship season has been hit by bad weather, with play abandoned for the day at Derbyshire, Durham, Lancashire and Kent without a ball being bowled.
Derbyshire's Division Two game with Gloucestershire was the first to fall after an 10:00 BST pitch inspection.
The Division One games between Durham and Hampshire, Lancashire and Surrey and Kent and Somerset followed.
This is the first of eight consecutive rounds of fixtures.
Derbyshire head groundsman Neil Godrich told ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Derby: "This has been the wettest pre-season I've experienced in 30 years.
"There's that much water that all we can do is move it from place to place.
"The trouble is we've not had three or four dry days together and when we did, it was too cold to dry anything out. We've got puddles that I've never seen before."
- Published15 May 2018
