Honours

• County Championship - Essex
• Gillette Cup - Somerset
• Sunday League - Somerset
• Benson & Hedges Cup - Essex
• Minor Counties Championship - Suffolk
  Suffolk County Cricket Club
  Suffolk County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Suffolk....
  
  
• Second XI Championship - Warwickshire II
• Wisden - Joel Garner
  Joel Garner
  Joel Garner , also known as "Big Joel" or "Big Bird", is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early '80s West Indies cricket teams....
  
  , Sunil Gavaskar
  Sunil Gavaskar
  Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar is a former cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most Test runs and most Test centuries scored by any...
  
  , Graham Gooch
  Graham Gooch
  Graham Alan Gooch OBE DL is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England. He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation, and through a career spanning from 1973 until 2000, he became the most prolific run scorer of all time with 67,057 runs...
  
  , Derek Randall
  Derek Randall
  Derek William Randall is an English former cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire, and Tests and ODIs for England in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
  
  , Brian Rose
  Brian Rose (cricketer)
  Brian Charles Rose is an English former cricketer, who played in nine Tests and two ODIs for England from 1977 to 1981.-Life and career:...
  
  

External sources

• CricketArchive – season and tournament itineraries

Annual reviews

• Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
  
   1980
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1980