2009 Women's Twenty20 Cup

The 2009 Women's Twenty20 Cup was the inaugural cricket Women's Twenty20 Cup tournament. It took place in July, with 32 teams taking part: 30 county teams plus Wales and Scotland. Surrey Women won the Twenty20 Cup, as champions of Division One. The tournament ran alongside the 50-over 2009 Women's County Championship.[1]

2009 Women's Twenty20 Cup
Administrator(s)England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket formatTwenty20
Tournament format(s)League system
ChampionsSurrey (1st title)
Participants32
Most runsEbony Rainford-Brent (90)
Most wicketsJodie Dibble (6)
Abbi Aitken (6)
2010

Competition format edit

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 worked on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:[2]

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

Teams edit

The 2009 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into eight divisions, Division One to Division Eight. Teams played each other once.

Division One Berkshire Kent Surrey Sussex
Division Two Lancashire Somerset Warwickshire Yorkshire
Division Three Cheshire Derbyshire Essex Middlesex
Division Four Devon Scotland Staffordshire Worcestershire
Division Five Hampshire Hertfordshire Norfolk Northamptonshire
Division Six Durham Gloucestershire Wales Wiltshire
Division Seven Cumbria Dorset Northumberland Shropshire
Division Eight Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Oxfordshire Suffolk

Division One edit

Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Surrey (C) 3 2 0 0 0 1 −0.36 0 5
Kent 3 1 1 0 0 1 +0.97 0 3
Berkshire 3 0 1 0 1 1 −0.40 0 2
Sussex 3 0 1 0 1 1 −1.05 0 2
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[3]

Division Two edit

Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Somerset 3 2 0 0 1 0 +1.23 0 5
Lancashire 3 1 1 0 0 1 +0.45 0 3
Yorkshire 3 1 1 0 0 1 −0.05 0 3
Warwickshire 3 0 2 0 1 0 −1.63 0 1
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[4]

Division Three edit

Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Essex 3 2 0 0 0 1 +0.61 0 5
Cheshire 3 1 1 0 0 1 +1.08 0 3
Middlesex 3 1 1 0 0 1 −0.25 0 3
Derbyshire 3 0 2 0 0 1 −1.23 0 1
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[5]

Division Four edit

Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Devon 3 2 1 0 0 0 +1.03 0 4
Staffordshire 3 2 1 0 0 0 +0.47 0 4
Worcestershire 3 2 1 0 0 0 −0.30 0 4
Scotland 3 0 3 0 0 0 −1.17 0 0
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[6]

Division Five edit

Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Northamptonshire 3 2 1 0 0 0 +1.13 0 4
Hampshire 3 2 1 0 0 0 −2.73 0 4
Norfolk 3 1 2 0 0 0 +0.99 0 2
Hertfordshire 3 1 2 0 0 0 +0.02 0 2
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[7]

Division Six edit

Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Durham 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 3
Gloucestershire 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 3
Wales 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 3
Wiltshire 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 3

All games abandoned due to rain.

Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[8]

Division Seven edit

Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Cumbria 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 3
Dorset 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 3
Northumberland 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 3
Shropshire 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 3

All games abandoned due to rain.

Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[9]

Division Eight edit

Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Oxfordshire 3 3 0 0 0 0 +0.65 0 6
Suffolk 3 2 1 0 0 0 +0.71 0 4
Buckinghamshire 3 1 2 0 0 0 −1.37 0 2
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[10]

Statistics edit

Most runs edit

Player Team Matches Innings Runs Average HS 100s 50s
Ebony Rainford-Brent Surrey 2 2 90 45.00 58 0 1
Charlotte Edwards Kent 2 1 71 71* 0 1
Amara Carr Devon 3 3 63 31.50 39* 0 0
Penny Everett Suffolk 2 2 62 62.00 58* 0 1
Alice Macleod Berkshire 2 1 60 60.00 60 0 1

Source: CricketArchive[11]

Most wickets edit

Player Team Balls Wickets Average BBI 5w
Jodie Dibble Devon 48 6 5.16 4/1 0
Abbi Aitken Scotland 54 6 9.33 3/21 0
Beth MacGregor Essex 47 5 3.60 3/6 0
Fi Morris Oxfordshire 48 5 4.00 3/6 0
Emma Sampson Surrey 36 5 4.20 3/12 0

Source: CricketArchive[12]

References edit

  1. ^ "Women's County Twenty20 2009". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Women's County Twenty20 2009". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  3. ^ Division 1 - 2009, Play-Cricket.
  4. ^ Division 2 - 2009, Play-Cricket.
  5. ^ Division 3 - 2009, Play-Cricket.
  6. ^ Division 4 - 2009, Play-Cricket.
  7. ^ Division 5 - 2009, Play-Cricket.
  8. ^ Division 6 - 2009, Play-Cricket.
  9. ^ Division 7 - 2009, Play-Cricket.
  10. ^ Division 8 - 2009, Play-Cricket.
  11. ^ "Batting and Fielding in Women's County Twenty20 2009 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  12. ^ "Bowling in Women's County Twenty20 2009 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 March 2021.