2008 Women's County Championship

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2008 Women's County Championship
Administrator(s) England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format 50 over
Tournament format(s) League system
Champions Sussex (4th title)
Participants33
Most runs Heather Knight (402)
Most wickets Isabelle Westbury (12)
Hannah Courtnell (12)
Charlotte Anneveld (12)
2007
2009

The 2008 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 12th cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from May to August and saw 31 county teams and teams representing Scotland and Wales compete in a series of divisions. Sussex Women won the County Championship as winners of the top division, achieving their fourth title.

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Competition format

Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned County Champions. Matches were played using a one day format with 50 overs per side.

The championship works on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows: [1]

Win: 20 points.
Tie : 16 points.
Loss: Bonus points.
Abandoned or No Result: 6 points.
Cancelled No Play: 10 points.

Up to four batting and four bowling points were available to the losing side only, or both sides in an incomplete match.

Teams

The 2008 Championship was divided into five divisions: Divisions One to Four with four teams apiece and Division Five with 17 teams split across four regional groups.

Teams in the top four Divisions played each other twice, and teams in Division Five played each other once.

Division One Berkshire Kent Nottinghamshire Sussex
Division Two Lancashire Somerset Surrey Warwickshire
Division Three Cheshire Derbyshire Middlesex Yorkshire
Division Four Essex Hampshire Staffordshire Worcestershire
Division Five London & East Hertfordshire Norfolk Suffolk Wiltshire
Division Five Midlands Leicestershire Northamptonshire Shropshire Wales
Division Five North Cumbria Durham Northumberland Scotland
Division Five South & West Cornwall Devon Dorset Gloucestershire Oxfordshire

Division One

TeamPldWLTABatBowlDedPts
Sussex (C)65001100107
Kent 6410105091
Nottinghamshire 6240058053
Berkshire 6060079016

Source: ECB Women's County Championship [2]

Division Two

TeamPldWLTABatBowlDedPts
Surrey (P)65100420106
Somerset (P)6420024086
Lancashire 6330003063
Warwickshire 60600512017

Source: ECB Women's County Championship [3]

Division Three

TeamPldWLTABatBowlDedPts
Yorkshire (P)65001040110
Middlesex (P)6330019070
Cheshire (P)62400112053
Derbyshire 6140166038

Source: ECB Women's County Championship [4]

Division Four

TeamPldWLTABatBowlDedPts
Essex [lower-alpha 1] (P)66000000120
Staffordshire 6420020082
Worcestershire 61500413037
Hampshire 6150047031

Source: ECB Women's County Championship [5]

Division Five

Due to restructuring of the Championship to expand the number of teams per division in 2009, the winners of the Division Five groups went into a play-off to determine promotion: the top two were promoted to Division Three, whilst the bottom two would form Division Four along with the four second-placed Division Five teams.

London & East

TeamPldWLTABatBowlDedPts
Norfolk (PO)3200100050
Hertfordshire (P)3210004044
Wiltshire 3120002022
Suffolk 3020100010

Source: ECB Women's County Championship [6]

Midlands

TeamPldWLTABatBowlDedPts
Northamptonshire (PO)3300000060
Wales (P)3210000040
Leicestershire 3021015022
Shropshire 3021000016

Source: ECB Women's County Championship [7]

North

TeamPldWLTABatBowlDedPts
Scotland (PO)3300000060
Durham (P)3210020042
Cumbria 3120010021
Northumberland 303004408

Source: ECB Women's County Championship [8]

South & West

TeamPldWLTABatBowlDedPts
Devon (PO)4400000080
Cornwall (P)4310023065
Gloucestershire 4220033046
Dorset 4130039032
Oxfordshire 404000505

Source: ECB Women's County Championship [9]

Play-off

TeamPldWLTABatBowlDedPts
Scotland (P)3300000060
Devon (P)3120001021
Norfolk (P)3120000020
Northamptonshire (P)3120000020

Source: ECB Women's County Championship [10]

Statistics

Most runs

PlayerTeamMatchesInningsRunsAverageHS100s50s
Heather Knight Devon 5540280.4019013
Elwyn Campbell Somerset 6633684.0094* 03
Laura Joyce Surrey 6626043.339503
Danni Wyatt Staffordshire 6625263.00117* 11
Claire Taylor Berkshire 6624440.6614610

Source: CricketArchive [11]

Most wickets

PlayerTeamBallsWicketsAverageBBI5w
Isabelle Westbury Somerset 192126.415/201
Hannah Courtnell Essex 300129.754/130
Charlotte Anneveld Kent 3001211.504/180
Danielle Hazell Yorkshire 259118.634/10
Alexia Walker Sussex 259119.365/171

Source: CricketArchive [12]

Notes

  1. Essex were promoted two divisions to Division Two for the 2009 season, whilst the other three teams moved to Division Three, due to restructuring of the Championship.

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