2015 Women's County Championship

2015 Women's County Championship

Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	50 over
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Yorkshire (6th title)
Participants	38
Most runs	Charlotte Taylor (422)
Most wickets	Sarah Clarke (23)
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The 2015 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 19th cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from May to September and saw 34 county teams and teams representing Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Netherlands compete in a series of divisions. Yorkshire Women won the County Championship as winners of the top division, with Kent finishing runners-up. The Championship was Yorkshire's sixth title since the institution of the full County Championship, and their first since 2002.

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 worked on a points system, the winner being the team with most average points of completed games in the first division. The points are awarded as follows: ^[1]

Win: 10 points + bonus points.
Tie : 5 points + bonus points.
Loss: Bonus points.
Abandoned or cancelled: Match not counted to average.

Bonus points are awarded for various batting and bowling milestones. ^[2] The bonus points for each match are retained if the match is completed.

Batting 1.50 runs per over (RPO) or more: 1 point 2 RPO or more: 2 points 3 RPO or more: 3 points 4 RPO or more: 4 points

Bowling 3-4 wickets taken: 1 point 5-6 wickets taken: 2 points 7-8 wickets taken: 3 points 9-10 wickets taken: 4 points

Teams

The 2015 Championship was divided into four divisions: Divisions One to Three with nine teams apiece and Division Four with eleven teams across two groups.

Teams in each group played each other once.

Division One	Berkshire	Kent	Lancashire	Middlesex	Nottinghamshire	Surrey	Sussex	Warwickshire	Yorkshire
Division Two	Devon	Durham	Essex	Ireland	Scotland	Somerset	Staffordshire	Wales	Worcestershire
Division Three	Cheshire	Derbyshire	Hampshire	Hertfordshire	Leicestershire and Rutland	Netherlands	Northamptonshire	Oxfordshire	Suffolk
Division Four North & East	Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire	Cumbria	Lincolnshire	Norfolk	Northumberland
Division Four South & West	Buckinghamshire	Cornwall	Dorset	Gloucestershire	Shropshire	Wiltshire

Division One

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Yorkshire (C)	8	6	1	0	1	25	22	0	107	15.29
Kent	8	5	1	1	1	24	26	0	105	15.00
Sussex	8	4	2	1	1	25	24	0	94	13.43
Berkshire	8	4	2	0	2	21	19	0	80	13.33
Middlesex	8	3	4	0	1	22	22	0	74	10.57
Surrey	8	3	5	0	0	25	28	0	83	10.38
Warwickshire	8	3	4	0	1	19	22	0	71	10.14
Nottinghamshire (R)	8	3	4	0	1	16	22	0	68	9.71
Lancashire (R)	8	0	8	0	0	17	6	0	23	2.88

Source: ECB Women's County Championship ^[3]

Division Two

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Somerset (P)	8	6	0	0	2	21	24	0	105	17.50
Staffordshire (P)	8	5	1	0	2	22	21	0	93	15.50
Worcestershire	8	4	3	0	1	24	21	0	85	12.14
Ireland	8	3	3	0	2	13	21	0	64	10.67
Essex	8	3	4	0	1	15	24	0	69	9.86
Wales	8	2	4	0	2	19	18	0	57	9.50
Devon	8	3	5	0	0	24	21	0	75	9.38
Durham (R)	8	3	5	0	0	16	22	0	68	8.50
Scotland (R)	8	1	5	0	2	13	20	0	43	7.17

Source: ECB Women's County Championship ^[4]

Division Three

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Hampshire (P)	8	6	1	0	1	23	26	0	109	15.57
Leicestershire and Rutland (P)	8	5	3	0	0	26	25	0	101	12.63
Derbyshire	8	4	3	0	1	21	20	0	81	11.57
Oxfordshire	8	3	2	1	2	16	18	0	69	11.50
Cheshire	8	3	3	0	2	17	18	0	65	10.83
Netherlands	8	3	3	0	2	18	17	0	65	10.83
Northamptonshire	8	3	4	0	1	10	17	0	57	8.14
Hertfordshire (R)	8	2	4	0	2	15	9	0	44	7.33
Suffolk (R)	8	0	6	1	1	16	17	0	38	5.43

Source: ECB Women's County Championship ^[5]

Division Four

North & East

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Norfolk (P)	4	4	0	0	0	12	16	0	68	17.00
Cumbria	4	3	1	0	0	10	15	0	55	13.75
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire	4	1	3	0	0	8	14	0	32	8.00
Northumberland	4	1	3	0	0	7	14	0	31	7.75
Lincolnshire	4	1	3	0	0	7	12	0	29	7.25

Source: ECB Women's County Championship ^[6]

South & West

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Gloucestershire (P)	5	4	0	0	1	16	15	0	71	17.75
Shropshire	5	3	1	0	1	13	15	0	58	14.50
Cornwall	5	2	1	0	2	8	10	0	38	12.67
Wiltshire	5	1	2	0	2	7	5	0	22	7.33
Dorset	5	1	3	0	1	4	14	0	28	7.00
Buckinghamshire	5	0	4	0	1	5	13	0	18	4.00

Source: ECB Women's County Championship ^[7]

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Charlotte Taylor	Hampshire	7	7	422	70.33	115*	1	1
Evelyn Jones	Staffordshire	5	5	331	82.75	115*	2	1
Miranda Veringmeier	Netherlands	6	5	326	65.20	127	1	2
Sophie Luff	Somerset	5	5	323	107.66	138*	2	1
Charlotte Horton	Derbyshire	7	7	306	51.00	100	1	2

Source: CricketArchive ^[8]

Most wickets

Player	Team	Balls	Wickets	Average	BBI	5w
Sarah Clarke	Surrey	448	23	10.21	4/11	0
Katie Levick	Yorkshire	377	20	9.65	6/25	2
Holly Colvin	Sussex	396	18	10.00	5/33	1
Hannah Jeffrey	Essex	414	16	9.62	5/19	1
Sarah Sundaram	Derbyshire	348	15	11.00	4/20	0

Source: CricketArchive ^[9]

References

1. "Competition Rules" (PDF). England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
2. "Competition Rules" (PDF). England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
3. Division 1 – 2015, Play-Cricket.
4. Division 2 – 2015, Play-Cricket.
5. Division 3 – 2015, Play-Cricket.
6. Division 4 – North & East – 2015, Play-Cricket.
7. Division 4 – South & West – 2015, Play-Cricket.
8. "Batting and Fielding in Royal London Women's One-Day Cup 2015 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
9. "Bowling in Royal London Women's One-Day Cup 2015 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.