Northamptonshire Facts and Feats
- Northamptonshire, along with Gloucestershire and Somerset, are the only teams not to have won the County Championship.
- They have finished bottom, receiving the wooden spoon 11 times
- Northamptonshire endured a record run of 99 matches from 14 May 1935 to 29 May 1939 without a single championship victory.
- Northamptonshire have made it out of the group stages of the Twenty20 Cup on 5 occasions out of the 10 years the competition has been running, most recently getting to the quarter-finals in the 2010 competition before being beaten by eventual runners up Somerset Sabres.
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