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Colin Ackermann in action during the Rothesay County Championship clash with Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in 2025
Colin Ackermann in action during the Rothesay County Championship clash with Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in 2025 Mark Dunn
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A case of the first game blues- Durham's season openers across the past decade

The key to setting the tone for a season often lies with how a team starts, but Durham have been slow out the blocks in recent years, with no opening day win since 2015.

23.03.26, 00:00 Updated 22.03.26, 16:18

Thomas Ridley

Thomas Ridley

For many sports teams, there are bad omens and ‘bogey teams’, but for some there’s a particular round of fixtures that they just can’t seem to crack.

Are your team always finishing the season with a whimper? Do they always tend to have a mid-season slump?

Well for Durham, a poor opening game is often on the menu, even when they romped to the Division Two title in 2023, they lost in the season’s premiere.

However, this is indeed a case of the first game blues as it goes deeper than that, their last opening day success came in 2015, when Durham nabbed a rare win at Taunton, thanks largely to Paul Collingwood.

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