English cricket bosses are studying a proposal to create a single league, combining the four-day County Championship and the one-day Totesport League, for 2006. This is how a combined league could have worked last season. We kept the 18 counties in their County Championship divisions, and awarded points as follows:
- Championship win: 3pts
- Championship draw: 1pt
- One-day win: 2pts
- One day tie / No Result: 1pt
Division One
| Team | OD wins | OD NR/ties | Champ wins | Champ draws | Total points |
| Lancashire | 14 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 55 |
| Surrey | 12 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 50 |
| Sussex | 6 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 44 |
| Middlesex | 10 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 40 |
| Kent | 7 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 38 |
| Warwickshire | 8 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 34 |
| Essex | 8 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 33 |
| Nottinghamshire | 9 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 30 |
| Leicestershire | 7 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 26 |
Sussex's first ever county title may never have happened as their poor one-day form, where they finished third from bottom in National League Division Two.
Lancashire, who won 14 National League matches, albeit against Division Two opposition, could instead have celebrated their first title in 69 years.
The same three sides - Essex, Notts and Leicestershire - would have been relegated in the same order.
Division Two
| Team | OD wins | OD NR/ties | Champ wins | Champ draws | Total points |
| Northamptonshire | 12 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 59 |
| Gloucestershire | 11 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 47 |
| Worcestershire | 4 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 43 |
| Glamorgan | 8 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 37 |
| Hampshire | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 37 |
| Durham | 7 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 34 |
| Yorkshire | 5 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 29 |
| Derbyshire | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 27 |
| Somerset | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 27 |
The same three sides - Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire - would have been promoted but Northants, rather than Worcestershire, would have gone up as champions.
Derbyshire's stronger showing in the one-day game would have seen them avoid the wooden spoon, which would instead have fallen to Somerset.
MMIX
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