County Championship Division One, 2018

Morne Morkel picked four wickets in Surrey's bid to defend 132 but Essex sneaked home a one-wicket win, thanks to Ryan Ten Doeschate's 53 not out

Meanwhile, Somerset thrashed Nottinghamshire by an innings and 146 runs to clinch the second spot in Division 1

The 2019 season will be the 27th year at the County for the veteran opener

Needing 300 inside 110 overs to avoid relegation, Lanchashire collapsed from 241/6 to 273 all out

Murali Vijay extended his impressive County form with a fourth consecutive fifty-plus score

The 22-year-old's ties with Worcestershire will officially come to an end after England's current domestic season

Both the games - Yorkshire vs Hampshire and Somerset vs Surrey - were abandoned without a single ball being bowled on the final day

James Porter's 11-wicket-haul helps Essex to a massive win as Worcestershire go back to Division Two after a year

Meanwhile, Lyth's timely fifty and Bresnan's five-for helped Yorkshire to edge ahead in their game versus Hampshire

Essex's James Porter registered his best figures in first-class cricket - 7/41 before Murali Vijay hit his third successive fifty in as many innings