2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup

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.

2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup
Administrator(s)England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket formatTwenty20
Tournament format(s)League system
ChampionsWarwickshire (1st title)
Participants35
Most runsSophie Luff (316)
Most wicketsLaura Ellison (15)
2018
2021

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

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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

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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

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Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Warwickshire (C) 8 5 3 0 0 0 –0.26 0 20
Lancashire 8 4 1 0 2 1 +0.77 0 19
Kent 8 4 2 0 2 0 +0.04 0 18
Hampshire 8 4 3 0 0 1 –0.19 0 17
Surrey 8 4 3 0 1 0 +0.95 0 17
Sussex 8 3 4 0 1 0 +0.30 0 13
Wales 8 2 4 0 0 2 –0.32 0 10
Middlesex 8 2 4 0 1 1 –0.61 0 10
Nottinghamshire 8 1 5 0 1 1 –0.78 0 6
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[2]

Division Two

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Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Somerset 8 6 2 0 0 0 –0.03 0 24
Durham 8 5 3 0 0 0 +0.54 0 20
Scotland A 8 4 2 0 2 0 +0.70 0 18
Yorkshire 8 4 2 0 0 2 +1.34 0 18
Essex 8 4 2 0 0 2 –0.07 0 18
Worcestershire 8 3 3 0 0 2 +0.27 0 14
Devon 8 3 3 0 0 2 –0.36 0 14
Cheshire 8 1 7 0 0 0 –1.26 0 4
Derbyshire 8 0 6 0 0 2 –1.42 0 2
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[3]

Division Three

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Group A

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Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Berkshire 8 7 1 0 0 0 +2.47 0 28
Oxfordshire 8 6 2 0 0 0 +0.05 0 24
Cornwall 8 4 4 0 0 0 +0.40 0 16
Gloucestershire 8 3 3 0 0 2 +0.41 0 14
Dorset 8 1 5 0 0 2 –3.08 0 6
Wiltshire 8 0 6 0 0 2 –1.48 0 2
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[4]

Group B

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Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Northamptonshire 8 8 0 0 0 0 +2.20 0 32
Buckinghamshire 8 5 3 0 0 0 +0.17 0 20
Hertfordshire 8 4 4 0 0 0 +0.22 0 16
Norfolk 8 3 5 0 0 0 –0.68 0 12
Lincolnshire 8 3 5 0 0 0 –0.98 0 12
Cambridgeshire 8 3 5 0 0 0 –0.44 0 12
Suffolk 8 2 6 0 0 0 –0.46 0 8
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[5]

Group C

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Team Pld W L T A C NRR Ded Pts
Staffordshire 8 6 0 0 0 2 +2.45 0 26
Cumbria 8 3 3 0 0 2 –0.13 0 14
Leicestershire and Rutland 8 2 3 1 0 2 –0.11 0 12
Shropshire 8 0 5 1 0 2 –2.07 0 4
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[6]

Statistics

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Most runs

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Player Team Matches Innings Runs Average HS 100s 50s
Sophie Luff Somerset 8 8 316 52.66 52 0 1
Sarah Bryce Scotland 6 6 272 90.66 101* 1 1
Marie Kelly Warwickshire 8 8 218 36.33 76 0 2
Hayley Brown Northamptonshire 8 8 213 35.50 35 0 0
Bryony Smith Surrey 6 5 211 52.75 85 0 2

Source: CricketArchive[7]

Most wickets

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Player Team Balls Wickets Average BBI 5w
Laura Ellison Durham 186 15 8.66 3/12 0
Flora Bertwistle Worcestershire 130 14 5.00 4/18 0
Patricia Hankins Northamptonshire 172 14 6.57 5/13 1
Isabella Fitzgibbon Buckinghamshire 186 13 8.61 4/4 0
Chloe Sainsbury Cambridgeshire 120 12 7.91 4/10 0

Source: CricketArchive[8]

References

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  1. ^ "ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup 2019". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  2. ^ Division 1 - 2019, Play-Cricket.
  3. ^ Division 2 - 2019, Play-Cricket.
  4. ^ Division 3A - 2019, Play-Cricket.
  5. ^ Division 3B - 2019, Play-Cricket.
  6. ^ Division 3C - 2019, Play-Cricket.
  7. ^ "Batting and Fielding in Vitality Women's Twenty20 Cup 2019 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Bowling in Vitality Women's Twenty20 Cup 2019 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 March 2021.