2006 English cricket season
| County Championship | |
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| Champions | Sussex |
| Runners-up | Lancashire |
| Most runs | Mark Ramprakash (2,211) |
| Most wickets | Mushtaq Ahmed (102) |
| Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy | |
| Champions | Sussex Sharks |
| Runners-up | Lancashire Lightning |
| Most runs | Mal Loye (543) |
| Most wickets | James Kirtley (19) |
| NatWest Pro40 | |
| Champions | Essex Eagles |
| Runners-up | Northamptonshire Steelbacks |
| Most runs | Owais Shah (360) |
| Most wickets | Nayan Doshi (19) |
| Twenty20 Cup | |
| Champions | Leicestershire Foxes |
| Runners-up | Nottinghamshire Outlaws |
| Most runs | Justin Langer (464) |
| Most wickets | Nayan Doshi (21) |
| PCA Player of the Year | |
| Mark Ramprakash | |
| Wisden Cricketers of the Year | |
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Paul Collingwood Mahela Jayawardene Mohammad Yousuf Monty Panesar Mark Ramprakash |
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The 2006 English cricket season included home international series for England against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. England came off a winter with more Test losses than wins, for the first time since 2002-03, but still attained their best series result in India since 1985. The One Day International series against Pakistan and India both ended in losses.
In domestic cricket, Nottinghamshire, holders of the County Championship, were relegated, and it was Sussex who took the Championship title as their Pakistani overseas player Mushtaq Ahmed ended with 102 wickets. Sussex pipped Lancashire to the title, as they did in the one-day C&G Trophy, which was changed from a direct knock-out into two regional leagues of 10, from which two teams progressed to the final at Lord's, where Sussex won by 15 runs. Essex Eagles defended their National League title from last season, a league tournament that has been shortened from 16 to eight matches per side and officially named Pro40. They finished level with Northamptonshire Steelbacks in the table, though the Steelbacks lost by 109 runs in their meeting. The Twenty20 Cup completed its fourth instalment during 2006, and was won by Leicestershire Foxes, the first team to win the Twenty20 Cup twice.
The season's opening first class game, the Champion County match at Lord's, began on 14 April with a Marylebone Cricket Club team taking on Nottinghamshire. Nottinghamshire earned a lead of 23 on first innings after bowling MCC out for 168, and after centuries from Jason Gallian, Chris Read and Mark Ealham, they declared with a day to spare. Despite 94 from No. 8 Tim Bresnan, MCC lost by 142 runs. A day later, the six three-day university matches between county sides and university teams had begun: the matches were all drawn, though no county team failed to bowl out their opponents in the first innings, and all county teams declared their first innings closed.
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