2007 Friends Provident Trophy

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2007 Friends Provident Trophy
Administrator(s) England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format Limited overs cricket (50 overs)
Tournament format(s) Group stage and knockout
Champions Durham (1st title)
Participants20
Matches78 (+15 no results)
Most runs Phil Mustard
(484 for Durham) [1]
Most wickets Ottis Gibson
(22 for Durham) [2]
Official website Friends Provident cricket
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The 2007 Friends Provident Trophy was an English county cricket tournament, held between 22 April and 19 August 2007. The tournament was won by Durham.

Contents

Changes from previous tournament

Following the 2006 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, which had been won by Sussex, various changes were made to the tournament. The first of these to be announced was the inclusion of a semi-final stage in 2007, following complaints of there being "too many meaningless matches". [3] Another change was that of the competition sponsor; Cheltenham & Gloucester, who were reportedly unhappy at the format for 2006, cancelled their future sponsorship before the 2006 season began. [4] Friends Provident were revealed as the new sponsors on 8 February 2007. [5]

The final major change from 2006 was the introduction of player referrals. Introduced on a trial basis, the fielding captain or batsman involved had the right to refer decisions to the third umpire if they disagreed with the decision of the on-field umpires. [6] Each team were permitted two appeals per innings, losing an appeal should the third umpire concur with his on-field colleague. [6] However, this option was only available during televised matches, which led some to suggest it would favour some teams over others. [7]

Format

The eighteen first-class counties were joined by the Scottish and Irish national teams and divided into two groups, north and south. Each team played each other once, with the top two teams from each group progressing to the semi-final stage. During the group stage, teams were awarded two points for a win, one point for a tie, abandonment or a no result, with no points awarded for a defeat. [8] Teams level on points at the end of the group stage were separated by most wins, followed by net run rate, followed by most wickets taken per balls bowled in matches achieving a result. [9]

Group stage

North Conference

TeamPld W T L NR Pts NRR
Durham Dynamos 9702014+0.865
Warwickshire Bears 9601214+0.711
Nottinghamshire Outlaws 9602113+0.802
Worcestershire Royals 9403210+0.207
Yorkshire Carnegie 9403210+0.086
Leicestershire Foxes 9403210-0.313
Lancashire Lightning 930517-0.629
Derbyshire Phantoms 920615-0.246
Northamptonshire Steelbacks 910624-0.728
Scotland 910713-1.051

South Conference

TeamPldWTLNRPtsNRR
Hampshire Hawks 9611114+0.315
Essex Eagles 9602113+1.050
Gloucestershire Gladiators 9602113+0.125
Kent Spitfires 9503111+0.889
Surrey Brown Caps 9403210+0.779
Somerset Sabres 9413110+0.198
Middlesex Crusaders 930517-0.377
Sussex Sharks 920526-0.687
Glamorgan Dragons 900633-1.416
Ireland 900633-1.793

Knockout stage

Semi finals

20 June 2007
Essex Eagles
71 all out (22.1 overs)
v
Durham Dynamos
72 for 7 (19 overs)
Andy Bichel 24 (35)
Liam Plunkett 4/15 (4.1)
Liam Plunkett 30* (35)
Andy Bichel 4/22 (7)
Durham Dynamos won by 3 wickets [10]
Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street
Umpires: John Holder and Jeremy Lloyds
Player of the match: Liam Plunkett (Durham)
  • Start was delayed by 85 minutes due to overnight rain [11]

Durham came out the victors in a low-scoring encounter where both sides collapsed to 38–7. [10] Heavy rain had fallen over the course of the previous few days and overnight, creating a damp pitch offering "enough movement for the ball to find the edge or earn lbws". [11] Andy Bichel was the only batsman to make a significant score (24 runs from 35 balls faced), as Neil Killeen and Ottis Gibson took three wickets each before Liam Plunkett claimed career-best bowling figures of 4 for 15. [10] [12]

Chasing a small target, Durham also lost early wickets, as Bichel and the on-loan Martin Saggers, followed by Graham Napier, reduced them to 38–7. [12] This brought Plunkett to the crease, and, batting "sensibly rather than desperately", he hit 30 of the remaining 34 runs to win the match. [11]

20 June 2007
Hampshire Hawks
206 for 7 (50 overs)
v
Warwickshire Bears
166 all out (43.3 overs)
John Crawley 65 (89)
Dale Steyn 2/31 (9)
Kumar Sangakkara 44 (75)
Stuart Clark 3/38 (9.3)
Hampshire Hawks won by 40 runs [13]
Rose Bowl, Southampton
Umpires: Peter Hartley and Neil Mallender
Player of the match: John Crawley (Hampshire)

Warwickshire elected not to include Ian Bell in their line-up, opting instead not to disrupt the side that had got to the semi-final. [14] Hampshire, however, did select Kevin Pietersen, who was flown to Southampton on a chartered helicopter following England's Test match win over the West Indies. [14]

Hampshire won the toss and chose to bat first, but started slowly, with John Crawley playing an anchor role following the early wickets of Michael Carberry and Michael Lumb. [15] He was the key batsman on what was described as a "sluggish" pitch, [15] [16] and scored 64 before being narrowly run out by Heath Streak's throw from third man. [16] In reply, Warwickshire seemed on course for victory at 98–3, before Sean Ervine dismissed top-scorer Kumar Sangakkara and Alex Loudon in the same over. [16] Despite a battling innings from Tim Ambrose, Warwickshire never recovered, bowled out for 166. [15]

Final

18–19 August 2007
Durham Dynamos
312 for 5 (50 overs)
v
Hampshire Hawks
187 all out (41 overs)
John Crawley 68 (93)
Ottis Gibson 3/24 (8)
Durham Dynamos won by 125 runs [17]
Lord's Cricket Ground, London
Umpires: Nigel Llong and George Sharp
Player of the match: Ottis Gibson (Durham)
  • Reserve day used

Durham's preparations for the final were hampered by the news that Steve Harmison would be unable to play after sustaining a muscle tear in his back in a County Championship match against Surrey. [18] Hampshire were without Stuart Clark, whose two month contract had expired; [19] Daren Powell was his replacement. [20]

Durham batted first and scored 312–5, [17] with Shivnarine Chanderpaul top-scoring with 78 before being run out by a "magnificent throw from long-on" by Michael Carberry. [20] Hampshire's bowling was poor, [21] with their six-man bowling attack of Powell, Jamie Bruce, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Sean Ervine, Chris Tremlett and Shane Warne "struggling [sic] for consistency". [21] Phil Mustard and Kyle Coetzer joined Chanderpaul in scoring half-centuries for Durham, in what was the highest 50-overs total in domestic Lord's finals. [16]

Hampshire's reply started badly; with the opening two deliveries of the innings, Ottis Gibson "slanted successive balls across Lumb and Ervine" to get both left-handers to edge to Michael Di Venuto at second slip. [20] Hampshire's chase was "in tatters" when Kevin Pietersen was dismissed, and once John Crawley's 68 was ended by Paul Collingwood, Durham had effectively won. [21] Rain stopped play with Hampshire on 158–5, ensuring the two sides would have to return the following day to complete the match. Upon resuming, Durham required less than nine overs to take the final five wickets. [20]

Durham's win brought their first domestic trophy since becoming a first-class county in 1992, [21] and left Glamorgan and Leicestershire as the only counties to have never won the tournament in one of its various guises. [22]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Batting and Fielding in Friends Provident Trophy 2007 (Ordered by Runs)" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
  2. ↑ "Bowling in Friends Provident Trophy 2007 (Ordered by Wickets)" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
  3. ↑ "C&G Trophy to include semi-finals in 2007". ESPNcricinfo . 23 June 2006. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
  4. ↑ McGlashan, Andrew (14 April 2006). "All change for county competitions". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
  5. ↑ "Friends Provident to sponsor England's one-day knockout". ESPNcricinfo. 8 February 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
  6. 1 2 "ECB to introduce player referrals". ESPNcricinfo. 10 April 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
  7. ↑ McGlashan, Andrew (18 April 2007). "What's up for grabs in 2007". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
  8. ↑ "Friends Provident Trophy 2007 Points Tables" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
  9. ↑ Wisden (2008), p 831.
  10. 1 2 3 "1st Semi-Final: Durham v Essex at Chester-le-Street, Jun 20, 2007". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  11. 1 2 3 Wisden (2008), p 848.
  12. 1 2 "Plunkett stays cool while all around fall". ESPNcricinfo. 20 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2008.
  13. ↑ "2nd Semi-Final: Hampshire v Warwickshire at Southampton, Jun 20, 2007". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  14. 1 2 "Warwickshire drop Bell for semi-final". ESPNcricinfo. 18 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2008.
  15. 1 2 3 "Hampshire hold their nerve to book Lord's date". ESPNcricinfo. 20 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2008.
  16. 1 2 3 4 Wisden (2008), p 849.
  17. 1 2 "Final: Durham v Hampshire at Lord's, Aug 18-19, 2007". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  18. ↑ "Harmison pulls out of Lord's final". ESPNcricinfo. 18 August 2007. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
  19. ↑ "Hampshire sign Voges to replace Clark". ESPNcricinfo. 18 June 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
  20. 1 2 3 4 Wisden (2008), p 850.
  21. 1 2 3 4 McGlashan, Andrew (19 August 2007). "Durham secure first silverware". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
  22. ↑ Wisden (2008), p 852.

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