Countries | Australia |
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Administrator | Cricket Australia |
Format | Four-day |
First edition | 1999–2000 |
Latest edition | 2022–23 |
Next edition | 2023–24 |
Tournament format | Round-robin tournament |
Number of teams | 7 |
The Second XI (currently known as the Toyota Second XI under naming rights) is a men's cricket league competed for primarily by Australian state and territory first-class cricket reserve teams. The competition is administered by Cricket Australia and is considered part of the national development pathway.
Ordinarily a low-fanfare competition that exists purely as a bridge between the Sheffield Shield and grade cricket, the tournament reached its peak of public consciousness ahead of the 2009–10 season, when it rebranded to the Futures League. This coincided with a focus on youth, driven by a restriction on teams to field only three players over 23 years of age. This proved unpopular, and age restrictions were relaxed for the 2011–12 season before being removed entirely ahead of the 2013–14 season. [1]
After 21 seasons of consecutive competition, the 2020–21 Second XI was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic preventing play. Upon its resumption in the 2021–22 season, the Second XI abstained from publishing official points tables, meaning that champions are no longer awarded. [2] League champions were previously calculated based on a points quotient that accounted for the varying numbers of matches that each team may play in a season. The most recent championship was awarded in 2019–20 to the Queensland Academy of Sport. [3]
The Second XI competition was established in the 1999–2000 season on an experimental basis as the ACB Cup, named after the then Australian Cricket Board (ACB). Competing teams were divided into two groups and played a series of three-day and one-day matches against each other. [4] The competition schedule grew in 2000–01 as each team would play a minimum of four matches per season, with a winner awarded based on a ratio of matches played to matches won. [5] The competition was renamed the Cricket Australia Cup ahead of the 2003–04 season in line with the ACB's rebrand to Cricket Australia. [6]
In 2009, ahead of the 2009–10 season, Cricket Australia revamped the competition to become a youth-focused under-23 tournament. Now known as the Futures League, it limited teams to just three overage players in their squad, and restricted matches to three days. While the format still allowed for two innings per side, each team's first innings overs were limited to 96 and total overs to 144. A week-long Futures League Twenty20 tournament was also added to the schedule. [7] [8]
Beginning in the 2011–12 season, the Futures League returned to four-day matches with no over restrictions and increased the amount of overage players per team to six. [9] However, the age restrictions remained controversial, with West Australian all-rounder Theo Doropoulous describing the league as a "glorified juniors competition" in a July 2013 Tumblr post. [10] This prompted Cricket Australia to remove age restrictions entirely in November 2013. [1]
Ahead of the 2019–20 season, the competition rebranded to the Second XI to better reflect the purpose of the league. [11]
Team | First season | Total seasons | Titles won [lower-alpha 1] | Runners-up [lower-alpha 2] | |
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Australian Capital Territory | 1999–2000 | 18 | 1 | — | |
New South Wales Second XI | 1999–2000 | 14 | 5 | 3 | |
Queensland Second XI | 2021–22 | 2 | — | — | |
South Australia Second XI | 1999–2000 | 19 | 2 | 1 | |
Tasmania Second XI | 1999–2000 | 19 | — | 4 | |
Victoria Second XI | 1999–2000 | 19 | 1 | 1 | |
Western Australia Second XI | 1999–2000 | 19 | 2 | 4 |
Team | First season | Last season | Total seasons | Titles won [lower-alpha 1] | Runners-up [lower-alpha 2] | |
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ACT / NSW Country Second XI | 2017–18 | 2022–23 | 5 | — | — | |
Australian Centre of Excellence | 2009–10 | 2009–10 | 1 [lower-alpha 3] | — | — | |
Australian Cricket Academy | 1999–2000 | 2001–02 | 3 | — | — | |
Cricket Australia Under-19s | 2018–19 | 2018–19 | 1 [lower-alpha 4] | — | — | |
New South Wales Under-23s | 2009–10 | 2012–13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
NSW Metropolitan Second XI | 2017–18 | 2022–23 | 5 | — | — | |
Queensland Academy of Sport | 1999–2000 | 2019–20 | 21 | 6 | 3 | |
South Australia Under-23s | 2009–10 | 2012–13 | 4 | — | 1 | |
Tasmania Under-23s | 2009–10 | 2012–13 | 4 | 1 | — | |
Victoria Under-23s | 2009–10 | 2012–13 | 4 | 1 | — | |
Western Australia Under-23s | 2009–10 | 2012–13 | 4 | — | 1 |
The Second XI competition began in the 1999–2000 season as an experimental tournament conducted by the Australian Cricket Board. Teams played a combination of three-day and one-day matches. As the teams were divided into two groups, no overall champion was awarded. As the tournament expanded the following season, teams now played four-day matches exclusively, although the numbers of matches per season per team did vary.
Four-day cricket continued up until the competition overhaul ahead of the 2009–10 season, which introduced age restrictions and capped overs to the tournament. Matches were reduced to three days for the following two seasons. During this time, a Twenty20 (T20) tournament ran concurrently, and a winner was crowned separately to the full-length competition. Four-day cricket returned from 2011–12 onwards, and the T20 tournament would continue in its own right until the end of the 2014–15 season.
After a three-year hiatus, a T20 component returned to the then-Futures League for the 2018–19 season. [12] Rather than contributing to the overall win-loss ledger, pairs of teams had either eight, six, four or two points added to their full-length season points total depending on their performance in the T20 carnival. [13] This continued in the 2019–20 season, leading to a situation where although Western Australia won the most total matches for the year, they finished second in the overall standings due to T20 results carrying less weight. [14]
Following a year's break in competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic preventing play, the Second XI resumed in the 2021–22 season without official points tables, meaning that champions are no longer awarded. [2]
Year | Champions | Runners-up | Most runs | Most wickets | Player of the Year | Ref. |
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1999–2000 | No champion awarded | [ data missing ] | [ data missing ] | — | [4] | |
2000–01 | Western Australia Second XI | Queensland Academy of Sport | Luke Williams (ACA/SA) – 585 | Paul Rofe (SA/ACA) – 30 | — | [15] |
2001–02 | New South Wales Second XI | Western Australia Second XI | Brett van Deinsen (NSW) – 438 | Shawn Bradstreet (NSW) – 17 | — | [16] |
2002–03 | Queensland Academy of Sport | New South Wales Second XI | David Dawson (ACT) – 552 | Andrew Downton (TAS) – 25 | — | [17] |
2003–04 | New South Wales Second XI | South Australia Second XI | Aaron Nye (QAS) – 534 | Darren McNees (ACT) – 26 | — | [18] |
2004–05 | Victoria Second XI | New South Wales Second XI | Luke Williams (SA) – 591 | Chris Duval (SA) – 16 | — | [19] |
2005–06 | South Australia Second XI | New South Wales Second XI | Ben Cameron (SA) – 551 | Gary Putland (SA) – 18 | — | [20] |
2006–07 | New South Wales Second XI | Western Australia Second XI | Peter Forrest (NSW) – 441 | Tim MacDonald (WA) – 29 | — | [21] |
2007–08 | Western Australia Second XI | Tasmania Second XI | Liam Davis (WA) – 447 | Luke Swards (ACT) – 25 | — | [22] |
2008–09 | New South Wales Second XI | Western Australia Second XI | Usman Khawaja (NSW) – 419 | Nathan Lyon (ACT) – 15 | — | [23] |
2009–10 | Victoria Under-23s | New South Wales Under-23s | Brett Forsyth (VIC) – 632 | Cullen Bailey (ACT) – 19 | — | [24] |
2010–11 | Australian Capital Territory | Queensland Academy of Sport | Sam Miller (ACT) – 593 | Mark Higgs (ACT) – 28 | — | [25] [26] |
2011–12 | Tasmania Under-23s | South Australia Under-23s | Jono Dean (ACT) – 336 | Andrew Maher (ACT) – 23 | — | [27] |
2012–13 | New South Wales Under-23s | Western Australia Under-23s | Steven Cazzulino (TAS) – 436 | Ryan Duffield (WA) – 18 | Nick Winter (ACT) | [28] [29] |
2013–14 | Queensland Academy of Sport | South Australia Second XI | Dean Russ (VIC) – 350 | Shane Devoy (ACT) – 20 | Vele Dukoski (ACT) | [30] [31] |
2014–15 | Queensland Academy of Sport | Tasmania Second XI | David Dawson (ACT) – 593 | Cameron Gannon (QAS) – 21 | Ben Dunk (TAS) | [32] [33] [34] |
Ben Rohrer (NSW) | ||||||
2015–16 | New South Wales Second XI | Queensland Academy of Sport | Nick Larkin (NSW) – 697 | Liam O'Connor (WA) – 28 | Nick Larkin (ACT) | [35] [36] |
2016–17 | Queensland Academy of Sport | Tasmania Second XI | Nick Larkin (NSW) – 521 | Nick Winter (SA) – 25 | Tom Rogers (ACT) | [37] [38] |
2017–18 | South Australia Second XI | Victoria Second XI | Peter Forrest (QAS) – 759 | Luke Robins (SA) – 31 | — | [39] |
2018–19 | Queensland Academy of Sport | Tasmania Second XI | Henry Hunt (ACT) – 737 | Jake Reed (VIC) – 31 | — | [13] |
2019–20 | Queensland Academy of Sport | Western Australia Second XI | Jake Carder (WA) – 581 | Liam Hatcher (NSW-M) – 25 | — | [14] |
2020–21 | No competition held due to the COVID-19 pandemic | [40] | ||||
2021–22 | No champion awarded | Ashley Chandrasinghe (VIC) – 423 | Tom O'Connell (VIC) – 19 | — | [2] | |
2022–23 | No champion awarded | Charles Wakim (TAS) – 575 | Lloyd Pope (SA) – 37 | — | [41] |
Year | Premiers | Runners-up | Most runs | Most wickets | Ref. |
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2009–10 | Western Australia Under-23s | Tasmania Under-23s | Jono Dean (ACT) – 157 | Ryan Duffield (WA) – 7 | [42] |
2010–11 | Victoria Under-23s | New South Wales Under-23s | Ryan Carters (VIC) – 192 | Luke Doran (NSW) – 11 | [43] |
2011–12 | South Australia Under-23s | Queensland Under-23s | Ashton May (TAS) – 183 | Steven Reid (VIC) – 11 | [44] |
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