1991 Refuge Assurance League

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1991 Refuge Assurance League
Administrator(s) Test and County Cricket Board
Cricket format Limited overs cricket
(40 overs per innings)
Tournament format(s)League
Champions Nottinghamshire (1st title)
Participants17
Matches136
Most runs917 Tom Moody (Worcestershire)
Most wickets30 Franklyn Stephenson (Sussex)
1990
1992

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.

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The season

Somerset played Lancashire at Taunton on Friday 5 July 1991 to be the first Sunday League game not to be played on a Sunday. [1]

Nottinghamshire beat Derbyshire, the previous season's champions, in the final round of matches at Trent Bridge to claim the title. Tom Moody of Worcestershire had an excellent season scoring a record 917 runs (including 5 centuries).

Standings

TeamPldWTLN/RAPtsRp100
Nottinghamshire (C)161303005283.471
Lancashire 161203105089.781
Northamptonshire 161004114486.264
Worcestershire 16914204295.162
Warwickshire 16814124082.534
Essex 16714223884.419
Yorkshire 16907003686.388
Somerset 16707113280.858
Surrey 16707113281.945
Kent 16618012887.460
Middlesex 16609012679.150
Gloucestershire 16509112476.146
Sussex 16509112481.421
Leicestershire 165010012278.291
Derbyshire 165011002084.389
Glamorgan 164010202082.610
Hampshire 163012101479.242
Team marked  (C)  finished as champions.
Source: CricketArchive [2]

Batting averages

Bowling averages

Refuge Assurance Cup

Following the end of the Sunday League season, the top four teams in the Sunday League competed for the Refuge Assurance Cup. Worcestershire emerged as victors, defeating Lancashire in the final.

See also

Sunday League

References

  1. Benson and Hedges Cricket Year Sept. 1990 to Sept. 1991 - page 325.
  2. "Refuge Assurance League 1991 Table" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 January 2011.