Administrator(s) | England and Wales Cricket Board |
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Cricket format | Limited overs cricket (45 overs per innings) |
Tournament format(s) | League system |
Champions | Kent Spitfires (5th title) |
Participants | 18 |
Matches | 144 |
Most runs | 753 Darren Lehmann (Yorkshire) [1] |
Most wickets | 29 Dougie Brown (Warwickshire) [2] |
The 2001 Norwich Union League season was a 45 over English county cricket competition; colloquially known as the Sunday League, it featured many mid-week floodlit matches. It was contested through two divisions: Division One and Division Two. Each team played all the others in their division both home and away. The top three teams from Division Two were promoted to the first division for the 2002 season, while the bottom three sides from Division One were relegated. All eighteen counties retained the nicknames from the previous season. [3]
Kent Spitfires won the League for the fifth time. Gloucestershire Gladiators, Surrey Lions and Northamptonshire Steelbacks were relegated from Division One, while Glamorgan Dragons, Durham Dynamos and Worcestershire Royals were promoted from Division Two.
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Division One
| Division Two
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Player | Team | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | HS | 100s | 50s |
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Darren Lehmann | Yorkshire | 15 | 15 | 753 | 53.78 | 191 | 2 | 4 |
Darren Bicknell | Nottinghamshire | 16 | 15 | 592 | 39.46 | 115 | 1 | 6 |
Ali Brown | Surrey | 13 | 13 | 565 | 47.08 | 130 | 3 | 1 |
Peter Bowler | Somerset | 11 | 11 | 560 | 50.90 | 104 | 1 | 5 |
Michael Hussey | Northamptonshire | 15 | 15 | 510 | 36.42 | 96* | 0 | 4 |
Source: [1] | ||||||||
Player | Team | Matches | Overs | Wickets | Average | BBI | 4W |
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Dougie Brown | Warwickshire | 15 | 116.4 | 29 | 18.24 | 4/56 | 1 |
James Averis | Gloucestershire | 15 | 121.3 | 27 | 20.22 | 5/40 | 3 |
Martin Saggers | Kent | 13 | 94.4 | 25 | 16.56 | 5/22 | 1 |
Steffan Jones | Somerset | 14 | 110.4 | 22 | 25.45 | 4/40 | 1 |
Source: [2] | |||||||
Player | Team | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | HS | 100s | 50s |
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Richard Montgomerie | Sussex | 15 | 15 | 673 | 48.07 | 108 | 1 | 5 |
Robert Croft | Glamorgan | 15 | 15 | 570 | 40.71 | 114* | 1 | 5 |
Matthew Maynard | Glamorgan | 16 | 16 | 527 | 52.70 | 116* | 1 | 3 |
Vikram Solanki | Worcestershire | 15 | 14 | 502 | 41.83 | 91* | 0 | 5 |
Nicky Peng | Durham | 13 | 13 | 495 | 41.25 | 121 | 2 | 2 |
Source: [1] | ||||||||
Player | Team | Matches | Overs | Wickets | Average | BBI | 4W |
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Andy Bichel | Worcestershire | 15 | 115.4 | 27 | 15.85 | 5/21 | 1 |
Chad Keegan | Middlesex | 14 | 106.5 | 26 | 17.73 | 5/17 | 2 |
Chris Schofield | Lancashire | 14 | 72.1 | 23 | 15.73 | 5/31 | 2 |
Stuart Lampitt | Worcestershire | 15 | 116 | 23 | 19.47 | 4/37 | 1 |
Source: [2] | |||||||
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