article_snippet.sent: It’s always difficult for any team that’s just been promoted: Worcestershire go up and down every year.
article_snippet.sent: I tipped Hampshire players for the title last season, but Hampshire players barely ended up escaping relegation.
article_snippet.sent: Big things will be expected of Nottinghamshire in the 2015 season given Big things strength and depth .
article_snippet.sent: Worcestershire often confounds me how a team that looks so workmanlike on paper can keep appearing in Division One ahead of more fancied sides, but coach Steve Rhodes gets more fancied sides playing disciplined cricket, and Daryl Mitchell’s a terrific leader.
article_snippet.sent: Lancashire had a massively disappointing 2014, going straight back down after winning Division Two.
article_snippet.sent: But, along with Surrey, Lancashire’ll fancy Lancashire chances of promotion.
article_snippet.sent: Overseas: Lancashire Lancashire endured a disappointing 2014 campaign which ended in relegation back to Division Two .
article_snippet.sent: Leicestershire were rock bottom last year, and without a Championship win in two seasons, but there’s a feeling of renewal at Grace Road: a new chief executive in Wasim Khan, and three Australians in Andrew McDonald (coach), Cosgrove.
article_snippet.sent: Key player: Cosgrove can give Leicestershire some rollicking starts.
article_snippet.sent: Former Australia all-rounder Andrew McDonald (right) will coach Leicestershire this summer .
article_snippet.sent: Leicestershire’ll be wiser for the experience after a dismal 2014, when a pre-season injury to captain
article_snippet.sent: The Surrey 2015 side that will be hoping to secure promotion back into Division One .