2008 Women's County Championship

2008 Women's County Championship
Administrator(s)England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format50 over
Tournament format(s)League system
ChampionsSussex (4th title)
Participants33
Most runsHeather Knight (402)
Most wicketsIsabelle Westbury (12)
Hannah Courtnell (12)
Charlotte Anneveld (12)
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The 2008 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 12th cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from May to August and saw 31 county teams and teams representing Scotland and Wales compete in a series of divisions. Sussex Women won the County Championship as winners of the top division, achieving their fourth title.

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 works on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:[1]

Win: 20 points.
Tie: 16 points.
Loss: Bonus points.
Abandoned or No Result: 6 points.
Cancelled No Play: 10 points.

Up to four batting and four bowling points were available to the losing side only, or both sides in an incomplete match.

Teams

The 2008 Championship was divided into five divisions: Divisions One to Four with four teams apiece and Division Five with 17 teams split across four regional groups.

Teams in the top four Divisions played each other twice, and teams in Division Five played each other once.

Division One Berkshire Kent Nottinghamshire Sussex
Division Two Lancashire Somerset Surrey Warwickshire
Division Three Cheshire Derbyshire Middlesex Yorkshire
Division Four Essex Hampshire Staffordshire Worcestershire
Division Five London & East Hertfordshire Norfolk Suffolk Wiltshire
Division Five Midlands Leicestershire Northamptonshire Shropshire Wales
Division Five North Cumbria Durham Northumberland Scotland
Division Five South & West Cornwall Devon Dorset Gloucestershire Oxfordshire

Division One

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts
Sussex (C) 6 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 107
Kent 6 4 1 0 1 0 5 0 91
Nottinghamshire 6 2 4 0 0 5 8 0 53
Berkshire 6 0 6 0 0 7 9 0 16

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[2]

Division Two

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts
Surrey (P) 6 5 1 0 0 4 2 0 106
Somerset (P) 6 4 2 0 0 2 4 0 86
Lancashire 6 3 3 0 0 0 3 0 63
Warwickshire 6 0 6 0 0 5 12 0 17

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[3]

Division Three

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts
Yorkshire (P) 6 5 0 0 1 0 4 0 110
Middlesex (P) 6 3 3 0 0 1 9 0 70
Cheshire (P) 6 2 4 0 0 1 12 0 53
Derbyshire 6 1 4 0 1 6 6 0 38

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[4]

Division Four

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts
Essex[a] (P) 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 120
Staffordshire 6 4 2 0 0 2 0 0 82
Worcestershire 6 1 5 0 0 4 13 0 37
Hampshire 6 1 5 0 0 4 7 0 31

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[5]

Division Five

Due to restructuring of the Championship to expand the number of teams per division in 2009, the winners of the Division Five groups went into a play-off to determine promotion: the top two were promoted to Division Three, whilst the bottom two would form Division Four along with the four second-placed Division Five teams.

London & East

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts
Norfolk (PO) 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 50
Hertfordshire (P) 3 2 1 0 0 0 4 0 44
Wiltshire 3 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 22
Suffolk 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 10

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[6]

Midlands

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts
Northamptonshire (PO) 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
Wales (P) 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 40
Leicestershire 3 0 2 1 0 1 5 0 22
Shropshire 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 16

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[7]

North

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts
Scotland (PO) 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
Durham (P) 3 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 42
Cumbria 3 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 21
Northumberland 3 0 3 0 0 4 4 0 8

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[8]

South & West

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts
Devon (PO) 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 80
Cornwall (P) 4 3 1 0 0 2 3 0 65
Gloucestershire 4 2 2 0 0 3 3 0 46
Dorset 4 1 3 0 0 3 9 0 32
Oxfordshire 4 0 4 0 0 0 5 0 5

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[9]

Play-off

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts
Scotland (P) 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
Devon (P) 3 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 21
Norfolk (P) 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 20
Northamptonshire (P) 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 20

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[10]

Statistics

Most runs

Player Team Matches Innings Runs Average HS 100s 50s
Heather Knight Devon 5 5 402 80.40 190 1 3
Elwyn Campbell Somerset 6 6 336 84.00 94* 0 3
Laura Joyce Surrey 6 6 260 43.33 95 0 3
Danni Wyatt Staffordshire 6 6 252 63.00 117* 1 1
Claire Taylor Berkshire 6 6 244 40.66 146 1 0

Source: CricketArchive[11]

Most wickets

Player Team Balls Wickets Average BBI 5w
Isabelle Westbury Somerset 192 12 6.41 5/20 1
Hannah Courtnell Essex 300 12 9.75 4/13 0
Charlotte Anneveld Kent 300 12 11.50 4/18 0
Danielle Hazell Yorkshire 259 11 8.63 4/1 0
Alexia Walker Sussex 259 11 9.36 5/17 1

Source: CricketArchive[12]

Notes

  1. ^ Essex were promoted two divisions to Division Two for the 2009 season, whilst the other three teams moved to Division Three, due to restructuring of the Championship.

References

  1. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship Division 1 - 2008". Play Cricket. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  2. ^ Division 1 – 2008, Play-Cricket.
  3. ^ Division 2 – 2008, Play-Cricket.
  4. ^ Division 3 – 2008, Play-Cricket.
  5. ^ Division 4 – 2008, Play-Cricket.
  6. ^ Division 5L&E – 2008, Play-Cricket.
  7. ^ Division 5M – 2008, Play-Cricket.
  8. ^ Division 5N – 2008, Play-Cricket.
  9. ^ Division 5S&W – 2008, Play-Cricket.
  10. ^ Division 5PO – 2008, Play-Cricket.
  11. ^ "Batting and Fielding in LV Women's County Championship 2008 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  12. ^ "Bowling in LV Women's County Championship 2008 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.