1988 Refuge Assurance Cup

Last updated

1988 Refuge Assurance Cup
Administrator(s) Test and County Cricket Board
Cricket format Limited overs cricket
(40 overs per innings)
Tournament format(s) Knockout
Champions Lancashire (1st title)
Participants4
Matches3
Most runs76 Graeme Hick (Worcestershire)
Most wickets5 Neal Radford (Worcestershire)/Andy Hayhurst (Lancashire)

The 1988 Refuge Assurance Cup was the first competing of the Refuge Assurance Cup, for the most successful teams in the Sunday League. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 7 and 18 September 1988. The tournament was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club who defeated Worcestershire County Cricket Club by 52 runs in the final at Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Contents

Format

The cup was an end-of-season affair. The counties finishing in the top four of the 1988 Refuge Assurance League competed in the semi-finals. The top two teams were drawn at home. Winners from the semi-finals then went on to the final at Edgbaston which was held on 18 September 1988.

The cup was played using an orange ball. [1]

Semi-finals

7 September 1988
(scorecard)
Gloucestershire
117/9 (40 overs)
v
Lancashire
121/7 (39.5 overs)
Andy Stovold 40
Jack Simmons 3/14 (8 overs)
Andy Hayhurst 26
Vibert Greene 2/16 (8 overs)
Lancashire won by 3 wickets
County Ground, Bristol
Umpires: John Holder & Nigel Plews
Player of the match: Paul Allott (Lancashire)

7 September 1988
(scorecard)
Middlesex
146/9 (40 overs)
v
Worcestershire
147/3 (38.4 overs)
Paul Downton 30 *
Neal Radford 4/23 (8 overs)
Graeme Hick 74 *
Norman Cowans 1/18 (8 overs)
Worcestershire won by 7 wickets
New Road, Worcester
Umpires: Barry Dudleston & John Hampshire
Player of the match: Graeme Hick (Worcestershire)

Final

18 September 1988
(scorecard)
Lancashire
201/5 (40 overs)
v
Worcestershire
149 all out (35.5 overs)
Trevor Jesty 59
Martin Weston 2/19 (8 overs)
Phil Neale 42
Andy Hayhurst 4/46 (8 overs)
Lancashire won by 52 runs
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Umpires: Jack Birkenshaw & John Holder
Player of the match: Mike Watkinson (Lancashire)

The attendance at the final was 14,616. [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cricket World Cup</span> International cricket tournament

The Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament. The tournament is one of the world's most viewed sporting events and considered as the "flagship event of the international cricket calendar" by the ICC. It is widely considered the pinnacle championship of the sport of cricket.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1975 Cricket World Cup</span> Inaugural mens Cricket World Cup tournament

The 1975 Cricket World Cup was the inaugural men's Cricket World Cup, and the first major tournament in the history of One Day International (ODI) cricket. Organised by the International Cricket Conference (ICC), it took place in England between 7 June and 21 June 1975.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Warwickshire County Cricket Club</span> English cricket club

Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Warwickshire.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">T20 Blast</span> English Cricket Tournament

The T20 Blast, currently named the Vitality Blast for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket competition for English and Welsh first-class counties. The competition was established by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003. It is the top-level Twenty20 competition in England and Wales.

The NatWest Pro40 League was a one-day cricket league for first-class cricket counties in England and Wales. It was inaugurated in 1999, but was essentially the old Sunday League retitled to reflect large numbers of matches being played on days other than Sunday.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edgbaston Cricket Ground</span> Cricket ground in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England

Edgbaston Cricket Ground, also known as the County Ground or Edgbaston Stadium, is a cricket ground in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England. It is home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club and its T20 team Birmingham Bears. Edgbaston has also been the venue for Test matches, One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals. Edgbaston has hosted the T20 Finals Day more than any other cricket ground. Edgbaston is the main home ground for the Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred competition from 2021.

Trevor Edward Jesty is an English former cricketer and cricket umpire. As a player he was an all rounder who played 490 first-class matches, scoring 21,916 runs and taking 585 wickets, between 1966 and 1991.

The ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup is an international cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) contested by national under-19 teams. First contested in 1988, as the Youth Cricket World Cup, it was not staged again until 1998. Since then, the World Cup has been held as a biennial event, organised by the ICC. The first edition of the tournament had only eight participants, but every subsequent edition has included sixteen teams. Among the full members, India have won the World Cup on a record five occasions, while Australia have won three times, Pakistan twice, and Bangladesh, England, South Africa and the West Indies once each. New Zealand and Sri Lanka have reached tournament finals without winning.

Steven Joseph "Steve" O'Shaughnessy is a former English professional cricketer who played for Lancashire and Worcestershire in the 1980s, and then had a substantial career in Minor Counties cricket with Cumberland. Since retiring from playing, he has become an umpire, and was promoted in December 2010 to the first-class panel for the 2011 season.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1988 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and eighteen years. They reached the final of the Benson & Hedges Cup and reached the quarter-finals in the National Westminster Bank Trophy. In the County Championship, they won four matches to finish fifteenth in their eighty-second season in the Championship. They came twelfth in the Refuge Assurance League

The 1988 Refuge Assurance League was the twentieth competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the third time by Worcestershire County Cricket Club.

The 1989 Refuge Assurance Cup was the second competing of the Refuge Assurance Cup, for the most successful teams in the Sunday League. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 6 and 17 September 1989. The tournament was won by Essex County Cricket Club who defeated Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club by 5 runs in the final at Edgbaston, Birmingham.

The 1989 Refuge Assurance League was the twenty-first competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the third time by Lancashire County Cricket Club.

The 1990 Refuge Assurance League was the twenty-second competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the first time by Derbyshire County Cricket Club.

The 1991 Refuge Assurance League was the twenty-third competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the first time by Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club.

The 1990 Refuge Assurance Cup was the third season of the Refuge Assurance Cup, for the most successful teams in the Sunday League. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 5 and 16 September 1990. The tournament was won by Middlesex who defeated Derbyshire by 5 wickets in the final at Edgbaston, Birmingham.

The 1991 Refuge Assurance Cup was the fourth and last competing of the Refuge Assurance Cup, for the most successful teams in the Sunday League. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 1 and 15 September 1991. The tournament was won by Worcestershire who defeated Lancashire by 7 runs in the final at Old Trafford, Manchester.

The One-Day Cup is a fifty-over limited overs cricket competition for the England and Wales first-class counties. It began in 2014 as a replacement for the ECB 40 tournament, which ran from 2010 to 2013. In contrast to its 40-over predecessor, the number of overs per innings was set at 50 to bring the competition in line with One-Day Internationals.

The 2017 English cricket season was the 118th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. The season, which began on 28 March and ended on 29 September, featured two global one-day competitions played in England and Wales, the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy and the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup. England Women's team won the World Cup, defeating India in the final at Lord's. Pakistan beat India in the Champions Trophy final.

References

  1. 1 2 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1989