County Championship
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The <entity_2> is the domestic <entity_1> competition in <entity_3> and is organised by the <entity_0> (<entity_0>). The competition consists of eighteen clubs named after, and originally representing, historic counties, seventeen from <entity_6> and one from <entity_7>. The official <entity_2> was constituted in a meeting at Lord's on 10 December 1889 which was called to enable club secretaries to determine the <entity_4> fixtures. Inter-county <entity_5> was popular throughout the 18th century although the best team, such as Kent in the 1740s or Hampshire in the days of the Hambledon Club, was usually acknowledged as such by being matched against an "All <entity_6>" team. As the popularity of organised <entity_5> grew throughout <entity_6>, more county clubs came into contention and, by the mid-1860s, they included the short-lived Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Middlesex and Yorkshire. The first-ever official <entity_5> <entity_2> match began on <entity_4>: Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol. In the 21st century, questions have been raised about the future of the <entity_2> in the light of the shaky financial structure of many counties, poor attendances and the rise of Twenty20 <entity_5>.
['sports league', 'recurring sporting event']