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 | Somerset (1st title) |
Participants | 22 |
Matches | 21 |
Most runs | 266 Viv Richards (Somerset) |
Most wickets | 17 Joel Garner (Somerset) |
Official website | CricketArchive tournament page |
The 1979 Gillette Cup was the seventeenth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 27 June and 8 September 1979. [1] The tournament was won by Somerset County Cricket Club who defeated Northamptonshire County Cricket Club by 45 runs in the final at Lord's.
The seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Devon, Durham and Suffolk. 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 8 September 1979.
27 June 1979 (scorecard) |
Buckinghamshire 133 all out (60 overs) | v | Suffolk 137/8 (38 overs) |
27 June 1979 (scorecard) |
Durham 221/7 (60 overs) | v | Berkshire 127/7 (60 overs) |
27 June 1979 (scorecard) |
Glamorgan 177/9 (60 overs) | v | Kent 178/5 (52 overs) |
27 June 1979 (scorecard) |
Hampshire 273/6 (60 overs) | v | Gloucestershire 218 all out (55.2 overs) |
27 June 1979 (scorecard) |
Lancashire 247/5 (60 overs) | v | Essex 177 all out (53.4 overs) |
27 June 1979 (scorecard) |
Devon 111 all out (56 overs) | v | Leicestershire 114/1 (31.4 overs) |
18 July 1979 (scorecard) |
Durham 213/9 (60 overs) | v | Yorkshire 214/6 (59.1 overs) |
18, 19 July 1979 (scorecard) |
Kent 278/7 (60 overs) | v | Lancashire 260/9 (60 overs) |
18 July 1979 (scorecard) |
Leicestershire 326/6 (60 overs) | v | Worcestershire 183 all out (50 overs) |
18 July 1979 (scorecard) |
Hampshire 193 all out (54.5 overs) | v | Middlesex 196/8 (58.5 overs) |
18 July 1979 (scorecard) |
Surrey 238/8 (60 overs) | v | Northamptonshire 240/4 (56 overs) |
18 July 1979 (scorecard) |
Derbyshire 224/7 (60 overs) | v | Somerset 226/2 (56.1 overs) |
18 July 1979 (scorecard) |
Suffolk 158 all out (55.3 overs) | v | Sussex 159/8 (49.5 overs) |
18 July 1979 (scorecard) |
Nottinghamshire 265 all out (60 overs) | v | Warwickshire 186 all out (51 overs) |
8, 9 August 1979 (scorecard) |
Middlesex 216 all out (60 overs) | v | Yorkshire 146 all out (54.3 overs) |
8 August 1979 (scorecard) |
Leicestershire 180 all out (59.4 overs) | v | Northamptonshire 184/2 (55.4 overs) |
8 August 1979 (scorecard) |
Somerset 190 all out (59.2 overs) | v | Kent 60 all out (28.4 overs) |
8 August 1979 (scorecard) |
Nottinghamshire 200 all out (56.4 overs) | v | Sussex 201/4 (54.1 overs) |
22 August 1979 (scorecard) |
Middlesex 185 all out (57.5 overs) | v | Somerset 190/3 (50.2 overs) |
22 August 1979 (scorecard) |
Northamptonshire 255/7 (60 overs) | v | Sussex 218 all out (55.2 overs) |
8 September 1979 (scorecard) |
Somerset 269/8 (60 overs) | v | Northamptonshire 224 all out (56.3 overs) |