2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup

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2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup
Administrator(s) England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format Twenty20
Tournament format(s) League system
Champions Warwickshire (1st title)
Participants35
Most runs Sophie Luff (316)
Most wicketsLaura Ellison (15)
2018
2021

The 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2019 Vitality Women's Twenty20 Cup was the 11th cricket Women's Twenty20 Cup tournament. It took place in June, with 35 teams taking part: 33 county teams plus Scotland and Wales. Warwickshire Women won the Twenty20 Cup, as winners of Division 1, therefore achieving their first title.

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The tournament followed the 50-over 2019 Women's County Championship, and was subsequently followed by the Twenty20 2019 Women's Cricket Super League, competed for by regional teams.

Competition Format

Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned the Champions. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format.

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: 4 points.
Tie : 2 points.
Loss: 0 points.
Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.

Teams

The 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into three divisions: Division One and Division Two with nine teams each, and Division Three with 17 teams, divided into regional groups. Teams in Divisions One and Two played each other once, and teams in Division Three played each other either once or twice.

Division One Hampshire Kent Lancashire Middlesex Nottinghamshire Surrey Sussex Wales Warwickshire
Division Two Cheshire Derbyshire Devon Durham Essex Scotland A Somerset Worcestershire Yorkshire
Division Three - Group A Berkshire Cornwall Dorset Gloucestershire Oxfordshire Wiltshire
Division Three - Group B Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Hertfordshire Lincolnshire Norfolk Northamptonshire Suffolk
Division Three - Group C Cumbria Leicestershire and Rutland Shropshire Staffordshire

Division One

TeamPldWLTACNRRDedPts
Warwickshire (C)853000–0.26020
Lancashire 841021+0.77019
Kent 842020+0.04018
Hampshire 843001–0.19017
Surrey 843010+0.95017
Sussex 834010+0.30013
Wales 824002–0.32010
Middlesex 824011–0.61010
Nottinghamshire 815011–0.7806
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup [2]

Division Two

TeamPldWLTACNRRDedPts
Somerset 862000–0.03024
Durham 853000+0.54020
Scotland A 842020+0.70018
Yorkshire 842002+1.34018
Essex 842002–0.07018
Worcestershire 833002+0.27014
Devon 833002–0.36014
Cheshire 817000–1.2604
Derbyshire 806002–1.4202
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup [3]

Division Three

Group A

TeamPldWLTACNRRDedPts
Berkshire 871000+2.47028
Oxfordshire 862000+0.05024
Cornwall 844000+0.40016
Gloucestershire 833002+0.41014
Dorset 815002–3.0806
Wiltshire 806002–1.4802
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup [4]

Group B

TeamPldWLTACNRRDedPts
Northamptonshire 880000+2.20032
Buckinghamshire 853000+0.17020
Hertfordshire 844000+0.22016
Norfolk 835000–0.68012
Lincolnshire 835000–0.98012
Cambridgeshire 835000–0.44012
Suffolk 826000–0.4608
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup [5]

Group C

TeamPldWLTACNRRDedPts
Staffordshire 860002+2.45026
Cumbria 833002–0.13014
Leicestershire and Rutland 823102–0.11012
Shropshire 805102–2.0704
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup [6]

Statistics

Most runs

PlayerTeamMatchesInningsRunsAverageHS100s50s
Sophie Luff Somerset 8831652.665201
Sarah Bryce Scotland 6627290.66101* 11
Marie Kelly Warwickshire 8821836.337602
Hayley Brown Northamptonshire 8821335.503500
Bryony Smith Surrey 6521152.758502

Source: CricketArchive [7]

Most wickets

PlayerTeamBallsWicketsAverageBBI5w
Laura Ellison Durham 186158.663/120
Flora Bertwistle Worcestershire 130145.004/180
Patricia Hankins Northamptonshire 172146.575/131
Isabella Fitzgibbon Buckinghamshire 186138.614/40
Chloe Sainsbury Cambridgeshire 120127.914/100

Source: CricketArchive [8]

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