2015 Women's County Championship

2015 Women's County Championship
Administrator(s)England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format50 over
Tournament format(s)League system
ChampionsYorkshire (6th title)
Participants38
Most runsCharlotte Taylor (422)
Most wicketsSarah 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.

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.


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