Administrator(s) | Test and County Cricket Board |
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Cricket format | Limited overs cricket (60 overs per innings) |
Tournament format(s) | Knockout |
Champions | Lancashire (1st title) |
Participants | 22 |
Matches | 21 |
Most runs | 220 Roy Virgin (Somerset) |
Most wickets | 13 Bob Willis (Surrey) |
Official website | CricketArchive tournament page |
The 1970 Gillette Cup was the eighth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 25 April and 5 September 1970. [1] The tournament was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club who defeated Sussex County Cricket Club by 6 wickets in the final at Lord's.
The seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Norfolk and Oxfordshire. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 5 September 1970.
25 April 1970 (scorecard) |
Glamorgan 171/7 (60 overs) | v | Cornwall 99 all out (55 overs) |
25, 27, 27 April 1970 (scorecard) |
Middlesex 264/5 (60 overs) | v | Norfolk 117 all out (49.5 overs) |
25, 27 April 1970 (scorecard) |
Oxfordshire 99/9 (60 overs) | v | Worcestershire 101/3 (54.5 overs) |
25, 27, 28 April 1970 (scorecard) |
Warwickshire 215/9 (60 overs) | v | Nottinghamshire 216/5 (53 overs) |
25, 26, 27 April 1970 (scorecard) |
Surrey 134/8 (60 overs) | v | Yorkshire 76 all out (29.4 overs) |
9 May 1970 (scorecard) |
Bedfordshire 102 all out (43.1 overs) | v | Buckinghamshire 105/2 (41 overs) |
30 May 1970 (scorecard) |
Hampshire 278/3 (60 overs) | v | Buckinghamshire 136 all out (58.1 overs) |
30 May 1970 (scorecard) |
Essex 174/9 (60 overs) | v | Sussex 175/6 (58.4 overs) |
30 May 1970 (scorecard) |
Glamorgan 149 all out (58.1 overs) | v | Surrey 151/3 (49.2 overs) |
30 May 1970 (scorecard) |
Lancashire 278/8 (60 overs) | v | Gloucestershire 251 all out (58.1 overs) |
30 May 1970 (scorecard) |
Kent 297/3 (60 overs) | v | Worcestershire 228 all out (56.1 overs) |
30 May 1970 (scorecard) |
Nottinghamshire 216/5 (60 overs) | v | Leicestershire 173 all out (53.5 overs) |
30 May 1970 (scorecard) |
Derbyshire 161/9 (60 overs) | v | Middlesex 162/8 (53.4 overs) |
30 May 1970 (scorecard) |
Somerset 248/6 (60 overs) | v | Northamptonshire 198 all out (59.2 overs) |
8 July 1970 (scorecard) |
Sussex 199 all out (60 overs) | v | Kent 152 all out (56.5 overs) |
8 July 1970 (scorecard) |
Hampshire 142 all out (50.4 overs) | v | Lancashire 143/5 (35.3 overs) |
8, 9 July 1970 (scorecard) |
Nottinghamshire 232/5 (60 overs) | v | Somerset 233/5 (58 overs) |
8 July 1970 (scorecard) |
Surrey 280/5 (60 overs) | v | Middlesex 272/9 (60 overs) |
22 July 1970 (scorecard) |
Somerset 207 all out (58.2 overs) | v | Lancashire 210/6 (56.2 overs) |
22 July 1970 (scorecard) |
Surrey 196 all out (59.3 overs) | v | Sussex 196/8 (50 overs) |
5 September 1970 (scorecard) |
Sussex 184/9 (60 overs) | v | Lancashire 185/4 (55.1 overs) |
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